100 Literary Journals and Magazines to Submit To and How

Here are 100 journals and magazines to submit your short fiction pieces to, and how. If you're trying to find just the right kind of journal for your kind of story, this isn't the list for you. If however you feel publication like most things is primarily a numbers game and want to get your stories out to as many places as you can before death gets you with his little cold hands, well, welcome aboard, friend.

I want to note that all of these journals and magazines are in print. A separate list of legitimate online journals will follow shortly.

The journals are in order of when they accept submissions. I haven't added the tier rankings because I find that whole system pointless and elitist. That said, here are two sites that are good for that kind of thing: http://victoriacho.blogspot.com/2010/04/literary-journal-rankings-from-faster.html and http://www.mamohanraj.com/writing.litmarket.html.

Also, if you happen, just happen, to get a rejection letter, I highly suggest stumbling over here: http://literaryrejectionsondisplay.blogspot.com/

Now, enjoy...

All Year

The New Yorker All year

http://www.newyorker.com/contact/contactus

McSweeneys All year

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/submit/print.html

The Missouri Review All year

http://www.missourireview.com/tmrsubmissions/online-submission-guidelines/e-submission-form/

Ploughshares All year

https://www2.pshares.org/submit/

Other Voices All year

(likes political/leftist/environment/feminist/gay etc)

Attn: Vance Bell

Submissions@othervoices.org

American Short Fiction All year

http://www.americanshortfiction.org/paypal.html

Raleigh Review All year

http://www.tellitslant.com/

Bear Deluxe Magazine All year

(750-4000 words, prefers stories that touch on environment)

bear@olro.org

The Journal All year

http://thejournal.submishmash.com/submit

North American Review All year

http://northamericanreview.submishmash.com/submit

Black Warrior Review (Changes monthly, check site)

http://bwrsubmissions.ua.edu/

Narrative Magazine All Year

https://www.narrativemagazine.com/submission

Hayden’s Ferry Review All year

http://hfr.submishmash.com/submit

Guernica All year

(strongly prefers work with international themes)

fiction@guernicamag.com

The Literary Review All Year

http://literaryreview.submishmash.com/submit

N+1 All Year

(doesn’t always respond to rejected pieces)

email: editors@npusonemag.com

Mid-American Review All Year

http://marsubmissions.bgsu.edu/

Canteen All Year

http://www.canteenmag.com/submissions/

Opium Magazine All year

http://opiummagazine.com/submissions/

West Branch All year

http://westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu/

Able Muse All year

http://www.ablemuse.com/submit

Glimmer Train (varies month to month)

http://www.glimmertrain.com/writguid1.html

Noon All year

Diane Williams

Noon

1324 Lexington Ave, PMB 298

New York, New York 10128

The Atlantic Monthly All year

Editorial Office

The Atlantic

Watergate

600 New Hampshire Ave, NW

Washington, DC 20037

Saturday Evening Post All year

(likes humor)

Features Editor

The Saturday Evening Post

1100 Waterway Blvd.

Indianapolis, IN 46202

Playboy All year

Playboy Magazine

Attn: Fiction Department

680 North Lake Shore Drive

Chicago, Illinois, 60611

The Paris Review All year

Fiction Editor

The Paris Review

541 E. 72 Street

New York, NY 10021

Granta All year

The Editor

Granta

2-3 Hanover Yard

Noel Road

London N1 8BE

United Kingdom

The Sun All year

Sy Safransky, Editor

The Sun

107 N. Roberson St.

Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Conjunctions All year

Conjunctions

21 East 10^th Street, #3E,

New York, NY 10002

Michigan Quarterly Review All year

Michigan Quarterly Review

0576 Rackham Bldg.

915 E. Washington Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Chicago Review All year

Chicago Review

5801 South Kenwood Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

ZYZZYVA All Year

466 Geary Street, Suite 401

San Francisco, CA 94102

The Malahat Review All year

(1200-8000 words)

The Malahat Review

University of Victoria

PO Box 1700

Stn CSC

Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2

Canada

Santa Monica Review All Year

Santa Monica Review

Santa Monica College

1900 Pico Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Lake Effect All Year

(if more than 15 pages, send query first)

Lake Effect


School of Humanities & Social Sciences


Penn State Erie


4951 College Drive
Erie

PA 16563-1501

January

Threepenny Review January 1 – July 1

http://www.threepennyreview.com/submissions.html

Zoetrope January 1 – August 31

Zoetrope: All-Story

Attn: Fiction Editor

916 Kearny St.

San Francisco, CA 94133

BOMB Magazine January 1 – August 31

BOMB Magazine

First Proof Submissions

80 Hanson Place, Suite 703

Brooklyn, NY 11217

Notre Dame Review January 1 – March 1, and September 1 – November 1

Notre Dame Review

840 Flanner Hall

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

February

Transcurrent Literary Journal February 1 – May 1

Write “fiction” in subject line

mail@transcurrent.org

Another Chicago Magazine February 1 – August 31

Editor

Another Chicago Magazine

3709 North Kenmore

Chicago, IL 60613

Plans to make online submissions available in 2012: http://www.anotherchicagomagazine.net/submissions

Crab Orchard Review February 1 – April 15 general issues

CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW

Department of English

Fanner Hall 2380 – Mail Code 4503

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

1000 Faner Drive

Carbondale, IL 62901

March

The Common March 1 – May 15

Editor Jennifer Acker

http://www.tellitslant.com/

April

Nothin. Go travel. Have a fling. The good old South is lovely this time of year.

May

Still nothin. Make some rancid mistakes you can write about later.

June

Fence June only

http://fence.submishmash.com/submit

Misssissippi Review (contest only) June 1 – December 1

Mississippi Review Prize 2012

118 College Drive #5144,

Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001

July

Nothin. Come to LA. The sun and the waves of Venice Beach are calling for you.

August

Arts & Letters August 1 – January 31

Has options for both flash pieces (under 500 words) and short stories (under 25 pages)

http://artsandletters.submishmash.com/submit

Post Road August 15 – September 15

http://www.postroadmag.com/submission/index.php

Copper Nickel August 15 – March 25

http://www.copper-nickel.org/submissions/

Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing August 15 – May 15

Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing

C/O Phong Nguyen & Matthew Eck

Department of English, Martin 336

University of Central Missouri

Warrensburg, MO 64093

Alaska Quarterly Review August 15 – May 15

Alaska Quarterly Review

University of Alaska Anchorage

3211 Providence Drive (ESH 208)

Anchorage, AK 99508

Georgia Review August 15 – May 15

The Georgia Review


The University of Georgia


Athens, GA 30602-9009

September

Gulf Coast September 1 – March 1

http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/submissions/index.php?page=home

Indiana Review September 1 – April 30

http://www.indianareview.org/submissions/

Ninth Letter September 1 – April 30

https://www-s.art.illinois.edu/ninthletter/submissions/

The Normal School September 1 – April 30

http://normalschool.submishmash.com/submit

Tin House September 1 – May 31

http://tinhouse.submishmash.com/submit

New England Review September 1 – May 31

http://newenglandreview.submishmash.com/submit

Crazyhorse September 1 – May 31

http://www.crazyhorsejournal.org/page.php?id=113

Willow Springs September 1 – May 31

http://willowsprings.ewu.edu/submit/

Bateau Press September 1 – May 31

http://bateaupress.submishmash.com/submit/

Harvard Review September 1 – June 15

(Fiction editor: Laura Healy)

http://www.tellitslant.com/

Bellevue Literary Review September 1 – June 30

(Up to 5000 words)

http://tools.med.nyu.edu/BLROnline

A Public Space September 1 – June 30

http://apublicspacedemo.submishmash.com/submit/5248/submission

Witness September 1 – December 1 general, themes January – April

http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submissions/

One Story September must be between 3000 – 8000 words

http://www.one-story.com/submissions/

Black Clock September 19 – October 10

http://blackclock.org/submgr/

Harpur Palate September 1 – November 15

http://harpurpalate.submishmash.com/submit

Columbia September 1 – May 1

Fiction editor: Zinzi Clemmons

http://columbiajournal.org/submit

Hotel America September 1 – May 1

Hotel Amerika

Columbia College, English Department

600 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago, IL 60605

The Southern Review September 1 – March 1

The Southern Review

3990 W. Lakeshore Drive

Baton Rouge, LA 70808

Priarie Schooner September 1 – May 1

Prairie Schooner

123 Andrews Hall

Lincoln, NE 68588

Connecticut Review September 1 – May 15

(open to short shorts and flash, but up to 4000 words are ok)

Connecticut Review

Connecticut State University System

39 Woodland St

Hartford, CT 06105

The Artful Dodge September 1 – May 1

Artful Dodge

Department of English

The College of Wooster

Wooster, Ohio, 44691

The Gettysburg Review, September 1 – May 31

Peter Stitt, Editor

The Gettysburg Review

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg, PA 17325

Iowa Review, September 1 – November 30

Fiction editor

The Iowa Review

308 EPB

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52242

The Hudson Review September 1 –November 30

The Editors

The Hudson Review

684 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10021

Southwest Review September 1 – May 31

(3,500 – 7000 words)

Jennifer Cranfill

PO Box 750374

Dallas, TX 75275

The Cincinnati Review September 1 – May 31

(Fiction Editor- Michael Griffith)

University of Cincinnati

PO Box 210069

Cincinnati, OH 45223

The Antioch Review September 2 – May 30

The Antioch Review

PO Box 148

Yellow Springs OH 45387

Agni September 1 – May 31

(Askold Melnyckuz, Editor)

AGNI

236 Bay Street Road

Boston University Writing Program

Boston, MA 02115

Harpers September 1 – May 31

Harper’s Magazine

666 Broadway, 11^th Floor

New York, NY 10012

Third Coast September 15 – April 30

http://www.thirdcoastmagazine.com/submit/

New South September 15 – April 30

Contact person: Matt Sailor

https://tellitslant.com/home/journal_details/14

Denver Quarterly September 15 – May 15

Denver Quarterly

University of Denver

Department of English

2000 E Asbury

Denver, CO 80208

http://www.tellitslant.com/home/journal_details/14

Kenyon Review September 15 – January 15

http://kenyonreview.org/krsubmit/submissions/

Versal September 15 – May 15

http://www.wordsinhere.com/versal/submgr/index.php

Boston Review September 15 – June 15

http://www.bostonreview.net/submissions/

Five Points, September 15 – June 15

(Wants stories 7500- words or longer)

http://www.fivepoints.gsu.edu/submissions/

Subtropics September 15 – April 15

David Leavitt

PO Box 112075

4008 Turlington Hall

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611

Epoch September 15 – April 15

251 Goldwin Smith Hall


Ithaca, NY 14853-3201

Shenandoah September 20 – May 1

Shenandoah

Washington & Lee University

Lexington, VA 24450

Massachusetts Review September 30 – May 1

http://www.massreview.org/submissions/

October

Basalt October 1 – March 1

(indicate if you want any unpublished material to be recycled or returned)

Basalt

One University Boulevard

College of Arts & Science – Loso Hall

Eastern Oregon University

La Grande, Oregon 97850

New Letters October 1 – May 1

UMKC | University House

5101 Rockhill Road

Kansas City, MO 64110-2499

Triquarterly October 1 – July 15

http://triquarterly.org/submissions

Boulevard October 1 – June 30

http://www.boulevardmagazine.org/projects.html/

The Weave October 15 – June 15

http://weavemagazine.submishmash.com/submit

November

Blackbird November 1 – April 15

http://www.blackbirdsubmissions.vcu.edu./

December

Virginia Quarterly Review December 1 – June 1

2,000-8,000 words

http://www.vqronline.org/submission/