From the Elysian Muse
How to Find Literary Magazines and Journals
Looking for a list of literary journals? Below you’ll find a fantastic list of literary journals that publish writing by new writers and by veteran authors. These literary journals are listed in alphabetical order. Although this is not a complete list of all actively publishing literary journals by any means, it’s a great place to start—especially if you are a new writer looking for a literary journal to publish your work.
We at The Elysian Muse love the literary magazines listed below and we recommend them to you! Read them, subscribe to them, and submit your own writing for publication. We’re always adding new journals to the list.
You can begin your search for the magazines that will be most likely to publish your writing by reading over the list of literary journals below. These are reputable magazines staffed by committed editors. However, before you start submitting your writing for publication, it’s important to know how to follow publishing industry etiquette.
Further down this page, we’ve included a few articles from our blog about how to get published in any of the magazines on our list of literary journals. We hope it helps!
A List Of Literary Journals
The Adirondack Review
AEROGRAM and Fortunates
Atlanta Review
Beloit Fiction Journal
The Carolina Quarterly
Carve Magazine
The Cincinnati Review
Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
Creative Nonfiction
Enizagam
The First Line
Flyway
Forge
Harpur Palate
Literal Latté
The London Magazine
LUMINA
The Malahat Review
McSweeney’s
The Missouri Review
Neon
New England Review
New Letters
New Madrid Journal Of Contemporary Literature
New Welsh Review
Nimrod International Journal
North Dakota Quarterly
Popshot Magazine
Prairie Schooner
RATTLE
Redivider
The Review Review
RHINO Magazine
Salt Hill
Sequestrum
The Summerset Review
Superstition Review
Tiferet; A Journal Of Spiritual Literature
Closing Notes
There are thousands of literary journals in the world; we know because we track, monitor, and review the submission guidelines of every single one of them on a regular basis. The number of literary journals out there would blow your mind. We’ve presented you with just a few literary journals to get you started.
Going out of your way to try and find magazines that fit your genre could take an excessive amount of time, and we know you would rather be writing. At The Elysian Muse, we do all the literary journal research for you: You just write.
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