Get Your Writing Published - Magazines, web zines and podcasts specializing in creative nonfiction, essays, research.

3cents Magazine

Each issue of 3cents will rotate around a theme and will feature one poem, one short story or flash fiction piece, and one piece of creative nonfiction together as a mini-collection built around that theme. While the authors each receive individual credit, their pieces are linked by a shared tone, theme, style, sense of whimsy, imagery, or other unifying or complicated relationship.

3Elements Review

Unique quarterly literary journal publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, & photography. Est. July 2013. 3Elements is a themed journal. All three elements of the theme must be included in the work to be considered for publication.

Abalone Mountain Press

Abalone Mountain Press is a Diné woman owned press located. We are a indigiqueer, trans, non-binary, Black Indigenous, Indigenous feminist friendly press.

Abandon Journal

Literary journal from Austin. Abandon Journal exists to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. Each issue we showcase work that "abandons form," and every other issue will be a variation on a theme of abandon.

After Happy Hour

A mostly online and now annual print lit journal with a taste for bold writing from all voices in all genres.

Alebrijes Review

The Latino literary magazine for colorful, whimsical, monstrous art.

Amethyst Review

Welcome to Amethyst Review, a new publication for readers and writers who are interested in creative exploration of spirituality and the sacred. Readers and writers of all religions and none are most welcome.

Banshee

Banshee Press is a small independent Irish publisher responsible for the print literary journal, Banshee, as well as a select list of books. Banshee welcomes submissions from both Irish and international writers of any background, including first-time writers. We welcome work from members of groups or communities typically under-represented within literature, whether or not the work addresses this.

Bodega Magazine

Your literary corner store. Bodega releases digital issues on the first Monday of every month, featuring poetry, prose, and occasional interviews by established and emerging writers. We’re here to give you a handful of essential pieces you can digest in one sitting.

Brown Sugar Lit

Brown Sugar is a womanist* (feminist of color) literary magazine. We are for misrepresented and unrepresented multicultural races, sexualities, religions, and identities. We accept various forms of content that capture the BIPOC experience. Give us all of your art, poetry, fiction, and more

Club Plum Literary Journal

Club Plum is a house party. We play all the good music. The DJ dances and laughs and knows that today is yesterday, and today is tomorrow, and pain is forever, so we’ve got to crack out the joy and ride the beat. If you read or write flash fiction, prose poetry, hybrid works or creative nonfiction that cause the DJ to drop the needle, you are invited.

Cosmic Horror Monthly

Weird Tales meets New Weird. Monthly horror featuring the best, brightest, and most otherworldly of new talent.

Dead Skunk Mag

A Lit Mag That Doesn’t Stink. The universe is a spectacular drama unfolding in real-time and Dead Skunk feels zero obligation to remain on standby.

Empty House Press

We are looking for writing that addresses the way narrative and presence adhere to place and the way they vanish. We encourage broad interpretations of what the idea or image of an empty house might evoke. This includes but is not limited to writing about home, landscape, place, memory, and of course, the atmosphere of previously inhabited spaces.

EX/POST Magazine

Founded in 2020, EX/POST is a nonprofit, independent literary and arts journal. We want the raw, unblinking work that will haunt us unapologetically. We want to be a home for timely, experimental, and, most of all, daring writing.

Hinterland Magazine

Hinterland is a quarterly print magazine committed to publishing the best in creative non-fiction from around the globe. We are always thrilled to feature work from established, well-known authors but have a particular interest in discovering new voices and in pieces that sit outside the usual categories: we ask only that it be a work of non-fiction.

Hippocampus Magazine

Hippocampus Magazine is an exclusively online publication set out to entertain, educate and engage writers and readers of creative nonfiction. Each issue features memoir excerpts, personal essays, reviews, interviews and craft articles.

Lavender Bones Magazine

We accept all different themes and styles of writing, as well as visual art, but we are most interested in those with a focus on cycles of life, death, relationships, nature, and existence itself. Show us how you view the world through these lenses.

Main Squeeze Literary Magazine

A student run Literary Magazine coming out of Southern Oregon University in Ashland Oregon.

McNeese Review

The McNeese Review is a print literary journal produced by students in McNeese State’s MFA program. We also publish Boudin, an eclectic home for online work.

Mystery Tribune

Mystery Tribune is No. 1 mystery magazine on web by reader size. Reed Coleman and Lawrence Block call us “a cut above” and “the most elegant mystery magazine”.

Nightmare Magazine

Monthly magazine of horror and dark fantasy short fiction published both online and in ebook format.

Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry

Founded at The University of Tulsa, Nimrod International Journal has been bringing you the best new voices in literature since 1956. Nimrod is published twice a year and features the best new poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Off Menu Press

We are a zine and community space for individuals who identify with a canonically-excluded gender. To those who identify as womxn, fem-aligning, trans*, or any other gender that has been impacted negatively by gender discrimination & the patriarchy, we are a home for you, your writing, and your art.

Opia

Quarterly magazine publishing prose, poetry & visual art by marginalised & underrepresented creatives.

Paddler Press

Poetry journal based in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, ON. Our goal is to share the work of amazing creators with the world.

Pareidolia Literary

A literary journal for pattern-finders.

phoebe

phoebe publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art. Above all, we seek to publish quality work.

Prairie Schooner

Prairie Schooner, a national literary quarterly published with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press, is home to the best fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews being published today by beginning, mid-career, and established writers.

Creative Nonfiction Magazines, Zines and Podcasts