Literary Zines/Literary Journals Index  

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• 2River View - Poetry and art.
• 5_TROPE
• 3AM Magazine - Literature, entertainment, and music zine.
• Adirondack Review - Poetry, fiction, artwork, art, photography.
• Alsop Review - A literary showcase of poetry and fiction.
• Alt-X - Where the digerati meet the literati. Cutting-edge fiction, criticism, hypertext, visionary fiction, and literary boradcasts.
• Ambulant - Poems, art, fiction.
• American Letters and Commentary - Fiction, poetry, essays, translation, and critical opinion.
• Another Toronto Quarterly - New Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and art.
• Anotherealm - Science fiction, fantasy and horror.
• Antigonish Review, The - Poetry, fiction, reviews and critical articles from all parts of Canada, the U.S. and overseas
• Arbutus - Poetry, short prose, and hypertext.
• ARC Magazine - Canadian poetry magazine. Poetry, artwork, articles.
• archipelago - International jounral of literature, the arts, and opinion.
• Arete - Fiction, poetry, reportage, reviews.
• Arts & Letters Daily - News and reviews: arts, letters, news, literature, philosophy, criticism, history, language, higher education.
• Big Bridge - Michael Rothenberg's site: webzine of poetry (and everything else).
• BeeHive - Hypermedia literary journal.
• Big Bridge - Poetry, fiction, art.
• Black Warrior Review - Contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from both established and emerging writers.
• Bloomsbury Magazine - Online magaine for book lovers, readers and writers. A fusion of book publisher, literary magazine, reference library and bookshop.
• Blue Moon Review - Poetry, fiction, and reviews.
• Blithe House Quarterly - Gay short fiction.
• Bohemian Ink - Literary underground review.
• BOMB - Interviews between artists, writers, musicians, directors, and actors.
• BorderCrossings - Poetry and fiction.
• Boston Are Small Press and Poetry Scene (Doug Holder) - Interviews with poets and writers from the world of the small press.
• Boston Review - Political and literary forum.
• Cafe Review - Quarterly poetry and arts publication.
• Capilano Review, The - Fiction, poetry, drama, and visual art.
• Chicago Review - Essays, conversations, letters, poetry. Also see the Sixtieth Anniversary Constellation anthology.
• ChickenBones: A Journal - Literary and artistic African-American themes.
• Complete Review
  • Complete Review Fiction
  • Complete Review Quarterly
  • Literary Saloon
• Conduit - Literary magazine.
• Conjunctions - Innovative fiction, poetry, criticism, drama, art and interviews by emerging and established writers.
• Contemporary Poetry Review - Poetry criticism.
• Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2) - Poetry and critical writing on poetry. Canadian.
• Continent - Fiction, imagery (moving or otherwise), poetry, sound.
• Consciousness, Literature and the Arts - A forum for new work relating the arts and literature to the exploration of consciousness currently flourishing in many disciplines such as philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and physics.
• Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) - Serves independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose.
• Crab Creek Review - Poetry and short fiction.
• Creative Nonfiction - Journal devoted exclusively to the creative nonfiction genre. Also see Lee Gutkind's page.
• CrossConnect - Contemporary art and writing.
• Cultural Society, The - Poems, photography.
• Cune - A gathering place for artists, writers, editors, booklovers, publishers.
• Dalhousie Review, The - Poetry and fiction.
• Danforth Review - Culture, literature, writing, books, writers, reviews, publishing.
• Del Sol Review - Poetry and fiction.
• Descant - A quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world.
• DIAGRAM - Electronic journal of text and art.
• Dogwood Journal - Literary, visual and audio content promoting unknown and emerging artists.
• Double Room - A journal of prose poetry and flash fiction.
• DoubleTake - Online guide to the documentary world: photography, articles, poetry, interviews, fiction.
• Drunken Boat - Journal of the arts.
• East Village, The - New writing.
• Editor and Publisher - The 115-year-old magazine covering the newspaper industry in North America.
• Emergency Press - A writer's collective.
• Ephemera - A literary quarterly featuring fiction, poetry, art, criticism and essays.
• Equisite Corpse - A journal of life and letters.
• Event - Poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction.
• Evergreen Review - Provocative literary writing, stories, poems, essays, and interviews.
• Exquisite Corpse - Art and culture journal featuring poetry, short stories, essays, gallery, and more. Well worth a visit.
• Facture - Poetry and poetics.
• Fascicle 2 - Poetry.
• Fence - Challenging poetry, fiction, criticism, and art.
• Fiddlehead, The - Canada's longest living literary journal, The Fiddlehead is published four times a year at the University of New Brunswick. Poetry and fiction.
• filling Station - Contemporary writing: poetry, fiction, one-act plays, essays.
• Fine Madness - Poetry.
• Five Points - Journal of art and literature.
• flashquake - Flash fiction, flash memoir, creative nonfiction, plays, flash plays, short stories, poetry.
• For Immediate Release - Archive of the monthly literary digest now put to rest by its editor Randy Roark.
• Fourteen Hills - Innovative poetry, fiction, short plays, and literary non-fiction.
• Ftrain.com - Brooklyn cultural narrative fiction stories Paul Ford.
• Georgia Review - Literary zine: stories, essays, poems, book reviews, and visual art.
• Ginosko Literary Journal - Short fiction & poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, social justice concerns, spiritual insights. Robert Paul Cesaretti, editor.
• Glimmer Train Stories - Great short stories by established and emerging writers, six in every quarterly issue.
• Global City Review - Poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction.
• Granta - The pieces in Granta may be fiction or non-fiction, short stories or memoirs, reportage, interviews or polemic.
• Guernica - A magazine of art and politics.
• hackwriters.com - A forum for independent writing.
• Harvard Advocate - The oldest continuously published college literary magazine in the country.
• HUBRIS - Cerebral nutrition for the confused masses.
• Hunger Magazine - Poetry, translations, fiction, reviews.
• identity theory - Literature and culture. Over 200 author interviews conducted by the legendary "bookish journalist" Robert Birnbaum and others, featuring notable personalities like Howard Zinn, Jonathan Safran Foer, Chip Kidd, Azar Nafisi, Ethan Hawke, Sarah Vowell, and many more. Short, innovative fictio, a social justice section containing politically conscious material, and a social justice blog.
• In Posse Review - Fiction and poetry.
• Infinite Matrix - Webzine featuring new science fiction by major writers, reviews by respected critics, and essays by original thinkers.
• Interboard Poetry Community (IBPC) - Home of the the InterBoard Poetry Competition and IBPC Newswire.
• InterText - Quarterly fiction magazine.
• It's Still Winter - A web journal of contemporary poetry and poetics.
• Jack Magazine - Books, music, film reviews. Nonfiction, fiction, essays, articles, poetry, prose.
• January Magazine - Fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction, art and culture, science fiction, children's books, cookbooks, biography, profiles, features, bestsellers, music and more.
• Kiss Machine - A conga line of arts and culture in magazine format.
• Konch Magazine - Ishmael Reed.
• Le Petite Zine - Drawing from a new tradition of poetry bulletin boards and local readings, a kind of Web mimeo.
• Letterheady - An online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters.
• Letters of Note - Correspondence deserving a wider audience. Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated as often as possible; usually each weekday.
• Liberation Lit - Publishes "progressive partisan" fiction (stories only). Stories are published online on a rolling basis and will be periodically collected in book form, in whole or part. Lib Lit prefers to publish fiction that may be deemed too partisan or didactic, or otherwise overtly factual and political, for publication by most corporate presses.
• lichen - A literary journal of fiction, poetry, plays, essays, reviews, black and white art and photography.
• Light and Dust Poets - Anthology of poets.
• Literal Latte - A literary magazine of fiction, poetry, and essays.
• Literary Review - Fiction, poetry and essays.
• Literary Review of Canada - Canadian journal for the discussion of culture, politics and society.
• Literary Saloon, The - Opinionated commentary on literary matters.
• Little Magazine, The - South Asian essays, fiction, poetry, art and criticism.
• Lungfull! - Publishing rough drafts so you can see the creative process as it happens.
• Malahat Review, The - International and contemporary works of poetry and fiction, and reviews of new publications by Canadian authors.
• Massachusetts Review - An independent quarterly of literature, the arts, and public affairs.
• McSweeney's - Dave Eggers' literary journal.
• Mesquite Review - International literature, art and culture.
• Milk Magazine - Poetry.
• Mississippi Review - Literary magazine.
• Missouri Review - Poetry, fiction and nonfiction, interviews, book reviews.
• Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) - MPT was founded by Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes in 1966 and is a journal with an international reputation for the wide range of poets and translators that it presents and for serious and lively discussion of the art of translating poetry. King's College London, which owns the archive of MPT, has relaunched the magazine under the editorship of Professor Daniel Weissbort, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English at King's.
• Modernist Journals Project (MJP) - The MJP at Brown University provides fully-searchable online editions of the English-language journals and magazines that were important in shaping those modes of literature and art that came to be called modernist.
• Morpo Review - Poetry, interviews, chat room.
• Mudlark - An electronic journal of poetry and poetics.
• N+1 - Brooklyn magazine of politics, literature, and culture.
• New American Writing - Printed annually.
• New England Review - Short fiction, including shorts, novellas, and self-contained extracts from novels, and we consider a variety of general and literary nonfiction: long and short poems; speculative, interpretive, and personal essays; book reviews; screenplays; translations; critical reassessments; statements by artists working in various media; interviews; testimonies; and letters from abroad.
• New York Review - Hosts images and expressions of highly talented writers and artists often denied a voice in mainstream commercial media.
• New York Review of Books - Literary-intellectual magazine.
• New York Times Sunday Book Review - Over 50,000 reviews.
• New York Times Magazine - Arts, leisure, style, food, film, music, books, TV, radio.
• New Writer - Original short stories, a showcase for new poetry, articles, book reviews, market information, news and readers' views.
• NewPages.com - Alternative guide to new books, magazines and music along with news and views from the net of interest to booksellers, publishers, librarians, writers and readers.
• NewPages Literary Magazine Stand - Short reviews of recent issues of literary periodicals.
• No: A Journal of the Arts
• Nuvein Magazine - Fiction, poetry, film, and music.
• Open City - Literary magazine publishing new fiction, poetry, and essays.
• Other Voices - Quality literary and visual art.
• Pagitica - Canadian fiction, poetry, and journalism.
• Painted Bride Quarterly - Poetry, fiction, prose.
• paperplates - Essays, fiction, poetry, reviews.
• Paris Review - Quarterly literary magazine of author interviews, fiction, poetry, art.
• Perihelion - Poetry.
• Philosophy and Literature - A daily review of arts and ideas. Argument and opinion updated daily.
• Pif - Book reviews, interviews, poetry, essays.
• Plaztik Press - Online journal publishing original works of literary fiction and poetry that deal with the interplay between self-identity and plastic surgery, exploring such issues as body image, cultural beauty, and aging.
• Ploughshares - Each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Over the years, guest editors of Ploughshares have included Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Rosellen Brown, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Sherman Alexie, Lorrie Moore, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Richard Ford.
• Poet's Haven - Poetry, art, stories, essays.
• Poets on the line - Calgery poerty scene (and beyond).
• Poetry Daily - A new poem every day.
• Poety Flash - Publishes quality reviews, poems, interviews, essays, and trade, submission, and award information for all creative writers---poetry and fiction. Poetry Flash also carries the most comprehensive listing of literary events in the West: the Calendar is an indispensable guide to the literary scene in all of California, and offers Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and selected national event listings. Although poetry is the editorial focus, interviews with novelists and writers of experimental fiction are featured. Poetry Flash, an essential tool for writers, publishers, and readers, has built community through literature over 30 years.
• Poetry International - Contemporary poetry published in conjunction with San Diego State University.
• Poetry Magazine - Poetry Magazine, founded by Harriet Monroe in 1912, is the oldest, most widely read monthly devoted entirely to verse.
• Poetry Project - Founded in 1966, the Poetry Project is now one of the premier forums for innovative poetry in the United States.
• Post Road Magazine - Poetry, fiction, art, photography, theatre, criticism.
• Potomac Review - Poetry, prose and art.
• Potpourri - Magazine of literary arts.
• Prairie Fire - Canadian magazine of new writing.
• Prairie Schooner - A national quarterly of fiction, poetry, essay and review.
• PRISM International - Contemporary writing from Canada and around the world.
• QBR: The Black Book Review - The leading black literature and black writers' publication in America.
• Quarterly West - Poetry and fiction. Literary magazine of the University of Utah.
• Queen's Quarterly - A Canadian review: fiction, poetry, and photography.
• Quick Fiction (JP Press) - Stories and narrative prose poems under 500 words.
• Ralph - Review of arts, literature, philosophy, and the humanities.
• Raven Chronicles - Journal of art, literature, and the spoken word.
• Readerville - Forum for readers, writers, librarians, publishers, critics and anyone else who loves books to have thoughtful and engaging discussions about everything from favorite books to why they buy what they buy to current writing conundrums to literary news.
• Retort Magazine - Poetry, literature, sound art, visual art, reviews.
• Review of Contemporary Fiction - Discussions of contemporary fiction and authors, including selections from works-in-progress and interviews, as well as a lengthy book-review section.
• Richmond Review - UK literary magazine.
• Rivendell - Literary arts journal.
• Rose & Thorn - Quarterly showcase for emerging and established writers and writers' resources.
• Schuylkill Valley Journal - Poetry, short stories, and critical essays.
• Seneca Review - Poetry.
• Sewanee Review - Fiction, poetry, reviews.
• Shampoo - Sudsy poetry.
• sidereality - A journal of speculative and experimental poetry.
• Site of Big Shoulders (SOBS) - Features original content with a connection to the greater Chicago region by virtue of authorship or subject matter. On the Web since the summer of 1996, SOBS showcases innovative art, writing, photography and music from leading creative people in and around Chicago, Illinois.
• slope - Poems, essays, criticism.
• SMITH - Storytelling community: a place to read, write, and share stories.
• SoMa Literary Review - New voices from San Francisco's subculture.
• Southern Review - Poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
• Southwest Review - Begun in 1915 and located on the campus of Southern Methodist University, SWR is the fourth oldest, continuously published literary quarterly in the United States. Neww works published alongside established authors.
• SPIKE Magazine - Interviews, features, reviews, new writing by established and unpublished authors.
• Spinning Jenny - Literary magaine from Black Dress Press.
• Spoiled Ink - Short stories.
• stonestone - Poetry.
• StoryQuarterly - A magazine of the short story.
• storySouth - Fiction, nonfiction.
• Stroll of Poets - Provides opportunities for Edmonton and area poets to share their work in public performance.
• Sulfur - Contemporary poetry in the context of international modernism.
• Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writings - Alternative writing and artwork.
• Swans - Quality literary and political site.
• Switched-on Gutenberg - Global poetry journal.
• Sycamore Review - Journal for the arts. Poetry, fiction, interviews.
• taint magazine - Fiction, poetry, criticism.
• Tarpaulin Sky - Poetry, prose, and trans-genre work from both emerging and well known authors.
• Terrain - A journal of the built and natural environments. Literary, journalistic and artistic works.
• The Literary Review (TLR)
• The Prose Poem - International poetry journal.
• Threepenny Review, The - Imaginative, intelligent, culturally alert literary magazine.
• Tin House - Fiction, non-fiction, new voices, author interviews, underappreciated books.
• Topic M-zine - A new British literary review.
• Transcendental Friend, The - Web journal of poetry and poetics, literature, art and criticism.
• Unlikely 2.0 - A collection of literary art.
• Vanitis Magazine - A journal of poetry, writings by artists, criticism, and essays. Vanitas comes out periodically, a forum for international voices with an emphasis on coming to grips with current world situations. Each issue contains writings by artists whose primary modes are non-literary and features the work of a visual artist.
• Virginia Quarterly Review - National journal of literature and discussion. Each issue has contained work both moving and memorable; each has sought to provide the best that contemporary literature can offer. VQR's distinguished history has included: essays from H. L. Mencken, Allen Tate, Bertrand Russell, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Ashmore, C. Vann Woodward, Cleanth Brooks, Dumas Malone, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr.; stories from Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne Porter, Peter Taylor, Ward Just, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Olen Butler, Mark Harris, and Ann Beattie; poems from the likes of Robert Penn Warren, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, James Dickey, Henry Taylor, and Rita Dove.
• Web Del Sol - A contemporary literary art collaboration on the part of dozens of writers, poets, editors, publishers, and staff. Also see:
  • Algonkian Writer Conferences
  • Escene - Best Lit On Web
  • Escene Ii - Best Journals
  • House of Blogs
  • In Dissent - Reviews
  • Interboard Poetry Com
  • Literary Dialogue - Iviews
  • Literary Explorer - Places
  • Poets And Writers - Chaps
  • Portal Del Sol - Reviews
  • WDS Review of Books
  • Writer's Edge Blog
  • Writers On The Job
• West Coast Line - Writing, images, criticism.
• Witness - Essays, fiction, memoirs, poetry and artwork. Each year Witness publishes a general issue and a special issue devoted to a subject of wide social concern.
• Word Riot - Writing, fiction, poetry, literary fiction.
• Word/For Word - Journal of new writing.
• Words without Borders - International literature.
• Writers Ask - A quarterly newsletter full of useful techniques, informed perspectives, and inspired nudges from accomplished literary writers and mentors.
• Zoetrope: All-Story - Magazine launched by Francis Ford Coppola concentrates on short fiction.
• ZYZZYVA - Wide range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by West coast writers and artists.

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