Creative Writing

"As the official publication of the Division on Black American Literature and Culture of the Modern Language Association, the quarterly journal African American Review promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. Between 1967 and 1976, the journal appeared under the title Negro American Literature Forum and for the next fifteen years was titled Black American Literature Forum. In 1992, African American Review changed its name for a third time and expanded its mission to include the study of a broader array of cultural formations. Currently, the journal prints essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture generally; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. AAR has received three American Literary Magazine Awards for Editorial Content in the 1990s." - JSTOR

"AGNI is a literary magazine housed at Boston University and known “among readers around the world,” as the writers group PEN put it, “for publishing important new writers early in their careers, many of them translated into English for the first time.” -- "About AGNI," AGNI Online

"The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.
The American Poetry Review has been in continuous publication since 1972 and has presented the work of over 6,000 writers." - "About Us," American Poetry Review website

"Features a broad range of the best contemporary literature, seeking especially to publish work by emerging and lesser-known writers of various cultural backgrounds." -EBSCO
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"TAR has always prided itself on offering an eclectic array of poetry and prose by emerging and established writers, as well as extensive book reviews and the occasional critical essay.
TAR was also one of the first English-language literary journals in Canada to publish translations of French-Canadian poets. This tradition has expanded to include translations by international award-winning poets such as Estonian Arved Viirlaid and Brazilian Edilberto Coutinho." --"What Makes TAR Special," The Antigonish Review website

"The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing quarterly literary magazines in America. It publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging and established authors. Authors published in the Review are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart Prizes. Review editor, Robert S. Fogarty, received the PEN/American Center lifetime achievement award in 2003.
Over the years the Review has published a distinguished roster of writers including: Ralph Ellison, Daniel Bell, Bruce Jay Friedman, Sylvia Plath, Cynthia Ozick, William Trevor, Clifford Geertz, Mark Strand, Raymond Carver, Mary Gordon, T.C. Boyle, Joyce Carol Oates, Jorge Luis Borges, Ha Jin, Lily Tuck, Peter Ho Davies, Jorie Graham, and Gordon Lish.
The Antioch Review is published in association with Antioch College." -JSTOR

"Apalachee Review is committed to providing a platform for emerging and established writers alike, with the goal of presenting the best in contemporary writing and promoting a vibrant literary culture. Because the Apalachee Review is a literary journal based in the panhandle of Florida, the work of writers from the region will always hold a special place in each issue. However, we also value and welcome submissions from writers all over the country and the world. Our goal is to amplify underrepresented voices, foster community, and inspire a deeper engagement with language and storytelling." -- "About Us," Apalachee Review website

"In this age of information overload, Appalachian Review strives to be a literary sanctuary for the finest contemporary writing that we can find. Each quarterly issue showcases the work of emerging and established writers throughout Appalachia and beyond, offering readers literature that is thoughtful, innovative, and revelatory.
Founded in 1973 as Appalachian Heritage and based at Berea College since 1985, Appalachian Review considers previously unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, writing for young adults, craft essays, book reviews, and visual art. In addition to new and emerging writers, contributors to the magazine include finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award; winners of the T. S. Eliot Award, the E.B. White Award, an O. Henry Prize, among others; and multiple Pushcart Prize nominees. Works by contributors have been reprinted in New Stories from the South and other notable anthologies" --"Appalachian Review," University of North Carolina Press website

"The Asian American Literary Review (AALR) is a not-for-profit literary arts organization, a place for all those who consider the designation “Asian American” a fruitful starting point for artistic vision and community.
Founded in 2009, AALR hosts public programs, runs teaching and mentoring initiatives, and bridges arts, academic, and community organizing spaces. It publishes a biannual literary journal, including, periodically, community-curated book arts projects that hope to be as socially and aesthetically innovative as they are radically unprofitable." - "About," Asian American Literary Review website

"Features articles for the general reader, reports & comments on recent events in history, humor, fiction, poetry, arts & leisure, & book reviews." -- EBSCO

"Our longstanding mission is to seek out and share work of fresh and lasting power, poems that speak startling, complicated, necessary truths and that do so in surprising and beautiful ways. Since 1950, the BPJ has cleaved to a set of editorial practices that enable discovery of vibrant new voices and that foster long-lasting relationships with some of the most gifted, important poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries." -- "Mission," Beloit Poetry Journal website

"Since its first issue in the summer of 1994, Bookforum has been staking out new territory in the world of book reviews, inviting authors to address books and cultural trends with curiosity, critical insight, and a distinctive personality. Contributors have taken on an array of topics, writing essays, columns, and reviews about fiction, history, fashion, feminism, current events, policy, bestsellers, fashion, film, music, pop culture, and personal obsessions." -- "About Bookforum," Bookforum.com

"Callaloo, the premier African and African-American literary journal, publishes original works by and critical studies of black writers worldwide. The journal offers a rich mixture of fiction, poetry, plays, critical essays, cultural studies, interviews, and visual art. Frequent annotated bibliographies, special thematic issues, and original art and photography are some of the features of this highly acclaimed international showcase of arts and letters. Special issues on Haiti and on Puerto Rican Women Writers have received awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Association of American Publishers Professional Scholarly Publishing Division." -- JSTOR

"Chicago Review is a student-run magazine of literature and critical exchange, published quarterly in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago since 1946. CR regularly features established and emerging voices in poetry, fiction and criticism from the U.S. and abroad; the magazine also frequently publishes special issues on single authors and national literatures." -- JSTOR

"Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art is an annual publication that features the very best in poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art. We were founded in 1977 and continue to be one of the few national literary journals entirely edited, designed and produced by students. We solicit manuscripts from writers we love and select the most exciting finds from our virtual submission box. Above all, our commitment is to our readers—to producing a collection that informs, surprises, challenges and inspires.
Over the years, the journal has published National Book Award-winners and Nobel laureates, as well as early writing by then-lesser known talents including Tom Perrotta’s first short story and early poems by Alicia Ostriker and Suji Kwock Kim. Our archives include work by Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, Noam Chomsky, Lydia Davis, Louise Glück, Jane Kenyon, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, James Tate and more." -- JSTOR

"Creative Nonfiction is the voice of the genre. Every issue is packed with new, long-form essays that blend style with substance; writing that pushes the traditional boundaries of the genre; notes on craft; conversations with writers and editors; micro-essays; and more. Themes demonstrate the editors' belief that true stories, well told, can make any topic compelling and relevant. Simply put, CNF strives to demonstrate the depth and versatility of the genre it has helped define since 1994." -- JSTOR

"Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review is one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a diverse, thoughtfully orchestrated gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews, and visual art. Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious readers—and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and sustains repeated attention and consideration. Pulitzer Prize winners and never-before-published writers are equals during our manuscript evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print works that promise to be, in the famous words of Ezra Pound, "news that stays news." Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has won numerous awards and earned an international reputation, and selections from its pages are regularly reprinted in the nation’s most prestigious prize anthologies." -- JSTOR

"Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review is one of America’s most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. Each quarterly issue offers a diverse, thoughtfully orchestrated gathering of short stories, general-interest essays, poems, reviews, and visual art. Never stuffy and never shallow, The Georgia Review seeks a broad audience of intellectually open and curious readers—and strives to give those readers rich content that invites and sustains repeated attention and consideration. Pulitzer Prize winners and never-before-published writers are equals during our manuscript evaluation process, whose goal is to identify and print works that promise to be, in the famous words of Ezra Pound, "news that stays news." Through its commitment to excellence, The Georgia Review has won numerous awards and earned an international reputation, and selections from its pages are regularly reprinted in the nation’s most prestigious prize anthologies." -- JSTOR

"A literary quarterly publishing new work, including short fiction, poems, and essays, with fine design and graphics." -- Gale Academic OneFile

"Publishing the best fiction and poetry—regardless of theme, subject, or style
We work closely with authors and believe that their writing is what makes the journal. The Review staff takes great pride in the personal side of literary magazine publishing, from that first acceptance phone call to the many careful hours spent on each manuscript. With each new issue, our editors focus their time and energy on the stories and poems within the covers, all the while following a 'plain and dignified' design that reaches back to the 1966 inaugural Greensboro Review." -- "About," Greensboro Review website

Student-run journal from the University of Houston's English Department.

"Harvard Review is [a] semi-annual journal of poetry, short fiction, literary non-fiction, and reviews. Past contributors to the journal include: Arthur Miller, Alice Hoffman, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gore Vidal, Joyce Carol Oates, John Ashbery, John Updike, and Jorie Graham. Harvard Review has also helped to foster the careers of many up-and-coming writers including Rishi Reddi, Kathryn Starbuck, Charles Yu, Jess Row, and Katy Lederer. Selections from Harvard Review have been included in numerous anthologies, including Best American Essays 2009, 2004, and 2003; Best American Poetry 2008, 2006 and 2002; Best American Short Stories 2005 and 2003; Best American Mystery Stories 2006; Best New Poets 2008, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology 2004 and 2001." -- JSTOR

"Founded in 1948, The Hudson Review deals with the area where literature bears on the intellectual life of the time and on diverse aspects of American culture. The magazine serves as a major forum for new writers and for the exploration of new developments in literature and the arts. By consistently maintaining its critical standards and a commitment to excellent writing, The Hudson Review has made a significant impact on the international literary climate. It has a distinguished record of publishing little-known or undiscovered writers, many of whom have become major literary figures. Each issue contains a wide range of material including: poetry, fiction, essays on literary and cultural topics, book reviews, and chronicles covering film, theatre, dance, music and art. As well as covering the American cultural scene, the magazine seeks to explore arts internationally through its regular reports from abroad and translations of contemporary writers from other countries." -- JSTOR

"The Iowa Review, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2010, is a literary magazine based at the University of Iowa. It publishes contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction." -JSTOR

"For nearly seventy years, The Kenyon Review has been the world's best known and most honored literary magazine in the English-speaking world. The Kenyon Review's editorial focus is to identify exceptionally talented emerging writers, especially from diverse communities, and publish their work (fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, reviews, etc.) alongside the many distinguished, established writers featured in its pages. KR was founded in 1939 by poet-critic John Crowe Ransom. During his 21-year tenure, Ransom published such internationally known writers as Robert Penn Warren and Delmore Schwartz, as well as younger writers-Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell, and Peter Taylor, to name a few. Recent years have seen new work by established authors E. L. Doctorow, Louise Erdrich, Seamus Heaney, and A.S. Byatt, as well as new voices-such as, Meghan O'Rourke, Roy Kesey, Kellie Wells, and Ron Rash-featured in KR." - JSTOR

"Latin American Literary Review is a scholarly journal devoted to the literature of Latin America and Brazil. It is published semiannually in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Since its appearance in the Fall of 1972, the magazine has been very well received, and has aroused national and international interest. It is directed by Dr. Yvette Miller, professor of Spanish." -JSTOR

" Literary Imagination is a forum for all those interested in the distinctive nature, uses, and pleasures of literature, from ancient to modern, in all languages. Its aim is to encourage wide-ranging discussions between those committed to the reading and study of literary works, and to the reading and writing of poetry, fiction, translations, drama, non-fiction essays, criticism, and scholarship concerned with them. The Journal seeks to develop a healthy environment for academic literary study and for the literary culture that extends beyond the academy. The Journal welcomes literary scholars, both academic and independent; teachers of literature in colleges, universities, and secondary schools; poets, novelists, playwrights, actors, and directors; translators, journalists, critics, editors, and publishers; and all other serious students of literature." -- Oxford Academic database

"Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences." -- "About Us," Michigan Quarterly Review website

"Mosaic is a literary print and virtual magazine that showcases the work of writers of African and Latinx descent. Each issue is curated by a respected guest editor, who selects a variety of works that represent the diversity of the African diaspora and themes featured during the Mosaic Literary Conference. The result is a collection of literature that is both captivating and thought-provoking." -- "About Us," Mosaic Literary Magazine website

"Since its founding, in 1925, The New Yorker has evolved from a Manhattan-centric “fifteen-cent comic paper”—as its first editor, Harold Ross, put it—to a multi-platform publication known worldwide for its in-depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, and humor." -- "About Us," New Yorker website

"The New York Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire’s words, as “the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.” The New York Review began during the New York publishing strike of 1963, when its founding editors, Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and their friends, decided to create a new kind of magazine—one in which the most interesting and qualified minds of our time would discuss current books and issues in depth. Just as importantly, it was determined that the Review should be an independent publication; it began life as an independent editorial voice and it remains independent today." -- "About Us," NYRB website

"Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The journal’s mission is to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design." -- "About," Ninth Letter website

"PANK advances the original vision of the founding editors and the rich history that’s published so many innovative voices.
Founded in 2006 by M. Bartley Seigel and Roxane Gay, PANK Magazine is a literary magazine fostering access to innovative poetry and prose, publishing the brightest and most promising writers for the most adventurous readers. Up country, to the end of the road, to a far shore and the edge of things, to a place of amalgamation and unplumbed depths, a place inhabited by contradiction, quirk and startling anomaly, where the known is made and unmade, and where unimagined futures are born, PANK." -- "About," PANK Magazine website

Renowned English-language magazine founded in Paris in 1953 and published quarterly.

Renowned English-language magazine founded in Paris in 1953 and published quarterly.

" Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté, and Neustadt Prizes, recipients of Guggenheim, Whiting, National Book Critics Circle, and National Book Awards, and many writers seeing their work in print for the first time." -- "About Us," Pleiades website

"Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog publishes new writing daily. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston." -- "About," Ploughshares website

"Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. Monroe's "Open Door" policy, set forth in Volume I of the magazine, remains the most succinct statement of Poetry's mission: to print the best poetry written today, regardless of style, genre, or approach." -- JSTOR

"Prairie Schooner is a national literary quarterly published continuously since 1926. With the support of the English department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press, it is home to the best fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews being published today by beginning, mid-career and established writers. In more than 80 years of publication, Prairie Schooner has helped to start the careers of hundreds of writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel laureates, National Endowment for the Arts recipients, and MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellows. Work first published in Prairie Schooner has been reprinted or cited in the Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize volumes, Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Poetry." -- Prairie Schooner

" Publishers Weekly, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, is familiarly known in the book world as PW and “the bible of the book business.” Focused on the international book publishing business, it is now a multimedia news platform with full horizontal coverage of book publishing beginning with the author-as-creator to publisher, printer, and distributor to the end consumer. Its varied products are targeted at publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors, book lovers, and the media. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best-known service is prepublication book reviews, of which it publishes nearly 9,000 per year." -- "About Us," Publishers Weekly website

"River Teeth is committed to exploring human experience in all its variety by combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essay, and memoir, with critical essays that examine and illuminate this emerging genre. River Teeth is dedicated to the simple premise that good writing counts and that facts matter. The editors believe that the ability to muster the evocative detail, to probe the workings of minds, to gain access to scenes, and to name names is a necessary but never innocent enterprise in nonfiction. River Teeth is dedicated to the idea that the questions one asks about these true stories are the ones that help us understand their significance for our lives." -- Project Muse

"SALMAGUNDI is a quarterly of the Humanities and Social Sciences which is addressed to the “general” reader rather than to the academic specialist. Founded in 1965 and published since 1969 at Skidmore College, the magazine routinely publishes essays, reviews, interviews, fiction, poetry, regular columns, polemics, debates and symposia. It is widely regarded as one of the most influential intellectual quarterlies in the United States, and though it is often discussed as a “little magazine,” it is by no means predominantly belletristic or narrow in its purview or its audience." -- JSTOR

"From its inception in prohibition, through depression and war, in prosperity and peace, the Virginia Quarterly Review has been a haven—and home—for the best essayists, fiction writers, and poets, seeking contributors from every section of the United States and abroad. It has not limited itself to any special field. No topic has been alien: literary, public affairs, the arts, history, the economy. If it could be approached through essay or discussion, poetry or prose, VQR has covered it." - JSTOR

"Since 1983 the Women's Review of Books has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women. Women's Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today's literary landscape and feature essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women." -- JSTOR

"The Adirondack Review is an online literary quarterly founded in the spring of 2000 by Colleen Ryor, with the first issue appearing that summer. We publish poetry, fiction, essays, visual art, photography, reviews, and translations from the German and the French. The editors publish work from established writers as well as completely unknown writers for whom The Adirondack Review is their first publication."

"Since 1990, the American Literary Review has been published through the Department of English at the University of North Texas. We feature poems, stories, essays, reviews, and interviews that reflect the diverse tradition of writers living in the United States and abroad. Our aim is to expand the notion of publishing literature that is American. We welcome work that speaks to American place, culture, history, and future, among other subjects." "About ALR," American Literary Review website

"ACM is independent of any institution, and has lived on volunteer efforts and grants. Each editor has autonomy and publishes work that ranges from conventional to experimental. We adore writing that is engaged with the world without being polemical or didactic. We support small publishers whenever we can—those enterprises that Raymond Carver called “the backbone of the national literature.” To that end, we run interviews with (mostly) small-press authors; publish excerpts of books from independent presses in our new Forthcoming series; and (again mostly) review books published by small presses." --"About," ACM website

"We are an online literary journal of prose, poetry, and mixed media." -- "About," Atticus Review website

Literary magazine published by Western Washington University.

"Established in 1974 by graduate students in the MFA Program in Creative Writing, Black Warrior Review is named for the river that borders the campus of The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The city, the river, and the magazine all derive their names from the 16th-century Indigenous leader Tuskaloosa (also spelled “Tushkalusa”), whose name comes from two words of Creek or Choctaw origin—tasca, meaning “warriors,” and lusa, meaning “black.” In 1540, Tuskaloosa battled the Spanish colonizer Hernando de Soto at Mabila, a fortified settlement perhaps in the vicinity of present-day Selma. Tuskaloosa was likely among the thousands who perished in the resistance effort, which is thought to have stopped the advance of de Soto’s campaign.
BWR publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and art twice a year. Contributors include Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners alongside emerging writers." -- "About," Black Warrior Review website

"B O D Y is an international online literary journal. We publish the highest quality poetry and prose from emerging and established writers. We also showcase contemporary artworks through our interviews with artists. B O D Y publishes three issues per year on a rolling basis: Winter; Spring; and Fall. Please read our submission guidelines carefully and send us only your very best work. We do not favor work in any particular style or from any particular school: our only criterion is excellence. B O D Y is an independent publication and not affiliated to any institution, academic or otherwise. We do not ask for your money in order to read your work. Prague, June 2012. CC / SD / JM" -- "About Body," bodyliterature.com

"The Brooklyn Review was founded almost thirty years ago and is run by the students and faculty of the Brooklyn College MFA Program. In the past, we have published works by Allen Ginsberg, Paul Beatty, Eileen Myles, Helen Phillips, Wayne Koestenbaum, Mac Wellman, Young Jean Lee, Lisa Ko, Ann Lauterbach, and Tommy Pico, among others. Stories appearing in our pages have won awards, including the PEN / Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, and the poems have been anthologized in the Best American Poetry series." -- "About," Brooklyn Review website

"The Hiram Poetry Review is published annually by the English Department at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. This issue of the HPR marks the forty-third year of continuous publication. In compiling each issue, we seek to find the odd work of the erratic genius, to discover the undiscovered, and to advance the careers of the accomplished poet. Publishing once a year allows us to maintain a high level of quality in the poetry and reviews." -- "About," Hiram Poetry Review website

"For over 30 years, Lambda Literary has championed LGBTQ books and authors. No other organization in the world serves LGBTQ writers and readers more comprehensively than Lambda Literary. We believe that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer literature is fundamental to the preservation of our culture, and that LGBTQ lives are affirmed when our stories are written, published, and read." - "Who We Are," Lambda Literary Review website

"Michigan Quarterly Review, founded in 1962, is an interdisciplinary and international literary journal, combining distinctive voices in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as works in translation. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, our magazine embraces creative urgency and cultural relevance, aiming to challenge conventions and address long-overdue conversations. As we continue to promote an expansive and inclusive vision, we seek work from established and emerging writers with diverse aesthetics and experiences." -- "About Us," Michigan Quarterly Review website

"A journal of contemporary literature and culture, New Orleans Review is a publication of the Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and is partially funded by the Kendall Michelle Daigle Memorial Endowment for English." -- "About," New Orleans Review website

"The mission of the North Carolina Literary Review is to preserve and promote writers who are a part of our state’s rich literary tradition. NCLR not only introduces new and emerging writers, but also reintroduces forgotten authors, who have influenced the culture and history of the Old North State. We showcase the work of North Carolina writers in literary criticism, interviews, book reviews, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and literary news stories, and complement the writing with the work of North Carolina artists and photographers." --"Mission Statement," NCLR website

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