Magazines, Zines and Podcasts Publishing Poetry

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.

African Voices

African Voices is an international, literary magazine devoted to the promotion of fiction, non- fiction, poetry and visual arts created by people of color. Founded in 1992, African Voices is published three times a year (2 print issues and 1 digital issue) and distributed throughout the United States and abroad.

Afro Literary Magazine

A literary magazine for our beautiful, afro-headed writers and artists.

After Happy Hour

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

AGNI

Known for publishing important new writers early in their careers (PEN), AGNI discovers stories, poems, and essays that map our pressured interiority and respond in necessary ways to the bedevilled state of the world. A literary beacon since 1972. Publishes short fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Alebrijes Review

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

Amphora Magazine

A literary magazine for your maledictions.

ang(st) zine

Intersectional transnational queer feminist art. We publish poetry and prose (creative non-fiction, micros, diary entries, personal essays, etc.) We do not publish literary or pop-culture criticism, reviews, or research articles.

Aôthen Magazine

Aôthen Magazine (named after the Doric Greek term for the earliest dawn) is a magazine that is dedicated to all kinds of Graeco-Roman classics-inspired content—artworks, poetry, essays, reviews, photography, and more—as a celebration of both archaeology and history.

Apricity Press

An annual publication of poetry, prose, fiction, art, & dance works since 2015.

Ascension Poetry Magazine

A poetry magazine publishing poetry that leans toward the fantastical, the dark, and the magical: Fantasy, Gothic, Ancient World, Mythological, Magic Spells, Mystic Visions, Nature, Prophecies, Prayers, Litanies, Dreams, Nightmares.

aurora

A poetry and art journal dedicated to championing women writers and celebrating underrepresented voices. Publishes creative art and multimedia, poetry and translations of poetry

Awakened Voices

Awakened Voices, provides an opportunity for survivors, secondary survivors, and allies to heal through writing. Submissions come from all over the country and world, and our staff provides supportive and healing feedback to writers. Awakened Voices and our blog, The Nightingale, aim to challenge public perceptions of sexual violence by leaning into nuanced aspects of survival and healing.

Backslash Lit

A webzine and learning community for electronic literature. We are looking for pieces that use digital and electronic mediums as a vessel for creativity, including but not limited to source code poetry, hypertext poetry, interactive fiction, ASCII art, and generative art.

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.

Bedfellows Magazine

Biannual print & online literary magazine focused on sex/desire/intimacy (not erotica), including their lack & complications.

Bitter Fruit Review

At the Bitter Fruit Review, we celebrate vibrance. Tell us every story in your arsenal, paint us images in colors that don’t yet have names, write us poetry that rips our hearts out. Reject minimalism-- we want work that drips off the page, work that you can sink your teeth into. We want everything that you can give.

We’re open to all voices, especially those historically marginalized. Push the envelope, create something magical, and send us your juiciest work.

Blood Bath Literary Zine

Blood Bath is a literary zine; produced in print and EPUB, it is dedicated to exposing Scottish fiction’s weird horror underbelly, publishing horror/genre poetry, short stories and illustration. Horror is our first love, but we also accept science fiction, fantasy and all manner of genre-blending concoctions.

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

Butcher’s Dog

Butcher’s Dog is a bi-annual poetry magazine founded and published in North East England. Independent and egalitarian, we print outstanding poems by diverse writers with distinctive voices from across the UK and ROI.

Capsule Stories

Capsule Stories is a print literary magazine published every season. Submissions open year-round. Looking for stories that can touch the heart. Stories that come from the heart. Stories about love, identity, the self, the world, the human condition. Stories that show what living in this world as the human you are is like.

Cave Wall

Cave Wall, published twice a year is a national literary magazine dedicated to publishing the best in contemporary poetry. We welcome poems of any length and style from both established and emerging poets of all identities.

Channel

Ireland’s journal of environmental writing. We publish new, previously unpublished work that engages with the natural world. We have a particular interest in work which encourages reflection on human interaction with plant and animal life, landscape and the self. Each issue includes a mix of poetry and fiction, alongside a selection of essays which may include creative non-fiction, criticism, and the occasional review of new creative work or of community-based environmental projects. Although based in Ireland, Channel welcomes international submissions. We also welcome submissions in translation.

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.

Cobra Milk

Cobra Milk is an inclusive multimedia literary and arts journal that invites you to get weird, get vulnerable, and get at us with the work you want to bring into the world. ​Founded in summer 2020 by Erin Mizrahi (poet/Scorpio) and Johnny Rezvani (musician/Virgo), we are the co-founders and hosts of the Cobra Milk Reading Series which began at The Cobra Club in Bushwick, Brooklyn and has since gone virtual. We love the creative community so much, ​we created another platform to celebrate the work of artists, writers, and musicians. We’re basically your favorite house show as a lit mag.

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.

Digging Press

Digging Press is an independent publisher. We publish Digging Through The Fat and a chapbook series, & produce the podcast, Digging Through w/ Gessy Alvarez.

Dust Poetry Magazine

Dust Poetry Magazine was founded in January 2020 and publishes issues of new poetry online. The work in Dust is unsolicited and international.

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.

Fiery Scribe Review

Fiery Scribe Review is an online literary journal created to amplify passionate voices internationally, through poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We are run by undergraduates who see the need to embrace any compelling piece of art, except hardcore contents. Fiery Scribe Review is not a paying magazine, but we make our tri-annual issues freely available to the public in downloadable PDF.

Five Points

The journal of literature and art published by the Department of English at Georgia State University. Published three times a year, each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with the most compelling writers working today.

Five South Journal

Five South is an online, biannual, literary journal where storytelling counts. Whether it’s in prose or poem form, we want to get to the meat of it. We like stories about people, places, memories, things that make us feel connected.

FlashBack Fiction

FlashBack Fiction is committed to publishing scintillating historical flash fiction from around the world.

Hexagon SF Magazine

Quarterly online magazine of international speculative fiction publishing science fiction, fantasy, horror, cyberpunk, sword and sorcery, magical realism, paranormal horror, dystopian epics, eldritch horror, superhero, space opera, afrofuturism, weird west, etc.

Interstellar Literary Review

A publication journal for the ceaseless wanderers and star-struck vagabonds: searching for poetry & prose that takes us across galaxies.

Josephine Quarterly

Josephine Quarterly (ISSN 2334-5888) is an online literary magazine celebrating the resilience and voices of underrepresented poets. Inspired by Mary Josephine Sadre-Orafai, a mother of Mexican descent, a teacher and mentor, and a champion for marginalized voices. She embodies resilience. We seek poets who know the act of resistance and healing.

Juniper

Founded in 2017 in Toronto, Juniper is an online poetry journal that publishes three times a year: February, June, and October.

Kalonopia Collective

Kalonopia is a literary collective to empower visually disabled and blind writers. Open to ALL writers on theme: VISION. NO ABLEISM.

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.

LEON Literary Review

LEON is a bimonthly online literary review publishing poetry, fiction and essay.

Love Letters to Poe

Love Letters to Poe is a haven to celebrate the works of Edgar Allan Poe and encourage the creation of gothic fiction tapped from the vein of Poe—a love letter to the man himself, if you will.

Main Squeeze Literary Magazine

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

Mausoleum Press

Mausoleum Press is a poetry and art magazine focused on dark and abstract themes, we were founded by Lucy Cundill and Zoe Street in Norwich, England.

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.

Moon Cola

Moon cola zine is a new diy bi-monthly literary and art zine! We are looking for art and writing that takes us to the moon and back and leaves us feeling fuzzy. We love emotional, nostalgic, sweet, and sour!

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.

Nocturne Horror Literary Magazine

Nocturne Magazine is a zine, established in 2021, that primarily publishes short fiction that mostly fits into the genres of horror, dark fantasy, or speculative.

Nurture

Nurture is a literary journal for writing that values economy of language, precision of detail, and humor. We have a soft spot for work that explores the complexities of care and celebrate the prickly and subversive — work that resists easy classification, that probes the absurd realities of being human, that complicates care and challenges convention about what it means to nurture.

On Spec Magazine

Aurora Award-winning quarterly journal of fantastical literature from a uniquely Canadian perspective. Follow us for news on science fiction, fantasy, Canadian and otherwise!

Opia

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

Orion’s Belt

Orion’s Belt is the home of bold, experimental literary science fiction and fantasy. We want stories that make us think about our place in the universe and our relationships with each other.

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.

Poet Lore

America’s Oldest Poetry Magazine, publishing since 1889. Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, essays, and reviews, published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history. Book-length issues deliver news from the interior—poems that make concerns of our moment both urgent and intimate.

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.

PRISM international

Western Canada’s oldest literary magazine, featuring contemporary writing from around the world. Based out of @UBC’s creative writing program.

Pulp Literature

PULP Literature embraces genre fiction in all its forms, including but not limited to crime, mystery, thriller, and suspense.

Queerlings

A literary magazine of queer writing from LGBTQIA+ voices

Renaissance Review

A youth-led literary magazine dedicated to publishing art & writing that combines two or more disciplines!

Ripe Literary Journal

LGBTQIA+ owned lit journal. We strive to uplift emerging and especially underrepresented voices; poc, lgbtq+, and neurodivergent.

Roulette: A Queer Literary Magazine

Exploring queerness within and across genres. Each issue will focus on a specific genre. We are looking for pieces that fit well within, as well as those that attempt to break the mold.

Sage Cigarettes

Small, inclusive online magazine - witch run, lovers of the written word

Sazeracs, Smoky Ink

A new literary magazine best served in a chilled glass, paired with the hum of dinner party chatter.

Schuylkill Valley Journal

The Schuylkill (pronounced SKOO-kill) Valley Journal publishes poetry, fiction, and essays.

The Augment Review

We are a student-run literary magazine working to uplift youth voices and experiences, in addition to providing a space for constructive feedback and growth.

The Dark Sire

The Dark Sire is a speculative literary journal, a magazine for the unconventional reader of gothic, horror, fantasy, and psychological realism in short fiction, poetry, and art

The Deadlands

The Deadlands is a monthly speculative fiction (science fiction, horror, fantasy, apocalyptic, supernatural) magazine, exploring all aspects of Death and the borders it shares with the living.

The Hungry Ghost Project

We are a magazine that publishes flash fiction and creative non-fiction on the topics of food, hauntings, memory and consumption, together or separately, in whatever form they may take. Gothic, horror, paranormal, hybrid, experimental and creative-critical work accepted.

The Incandescent Review

A nonprofit magazine illuminating youth voices and crafting arts-based solutions to world issues. Our literary magazine publishes quarterly. We are looking for work that expresses honest opinions and emotional responses to timely and relevant personal or world issues. You are eligible for submission if you are between the ages of 13 and 24.

The Nonconformist Magazine

The sharpest literary magazine around. Open to submissions of fiction, poetry, experimental fiction and poetry, book reviews, literary criticism, & essays.

The Stinging Fly

The Stinging Fly magazine was established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. We believe that there is a need for a magazine that, first and foremost, gives new and emerging writers an opportunity to get their work out into the world.

The Winnow

We are a lit mag that features prose, poetry, & artwork by LGBTQAI+ creatives.

Thin Air Magazine

Thin Air is a non-profit literary and art magazine run by graduate students of Northern Arizona University

Uncanny Magazine

Online magazine of science fiction & fantasy. Edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, & 2020 Hugo Award Winner.

Vautrin Magazine

A print and online literary magazine geared toward gritty urban fiction, crime/mystery fiction, and satire. Book reviews and essays cover similar material. We also include poetry when it fits the spirit of the magazine.

Warning Lines Literary

Indie literary journal by queer & neurodivergent creators. We especially want to hear from QTPOC, neurodivergent POC, and those multiply marginalized.

ZiN Daily Literary Magazine

ZiN Daily is an international literary magazine that was founded in 2017 and since then has published many established and emerging writers.