Literary Markets : Magazines, Zines and Podcasts

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.

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.

Cosmic Horror Monthly

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

Wyngraf: The Magazine of Cozy Fantasy

Wyngraf was founded to promote and encourage fantasy stories that focus on the little things: friends, family, home, travel. Our authors create worlds that readers get lost in… and dream of someday visiting.

Suspense Magazine

Outlet for readers of horror, suspense, mystery and thriller novels. Find authors, read stories and author interviews. Subscribe to Suspense Radio on ITunes

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.

Thin Air Magazine

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

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”.

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.

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.

Pulp Literature

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

The Dark City

The Dark City Mystery Magazine is the product of a community of crime and mystery writers and fans who spend an inappropriate amount of time exploring the dark side of human nature as expressed by its criminal behavior. The magazine is produced by Dark City Books, a publisher of crime and mystery anthologies and collections.

Interstellar Literary Review

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

Shotgun Honey

Established 2011, Shotgun Honey has been a steady outlet for crime, noir, and hard-boiled flash 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

After Happy Hour

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