Erika Krouse’s Ranking of
500-ish Literary Magazines for Short Fiction
UPDATED FOR 2026!
Students often ask me what the “best" literary magazines were. At one point, I realized that I didn't actually know. Where are the best places to submit, and according to what standards? I stumbled across Clifford Garstang's incredibly helpful blog ranking Pushcart prizewinning magazines. But then I wondered, what about Best American Short Stories? And the O. Henry Prize? Then I wondered why all the rankings were so different from each other. And then I wondered if I had any Valium left over from my prescription 10 years ago. And then I remembered spreadsheets.
So this is a ranking of magazines that I've been using and sharing with students for years. It’s organized according to the following elements:
Score, calculated according to prizes won in recent years: The Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prizes (from Clifford Garstang's amazing blog), and O. Henry Awards. BASS scores are weighted more heavily due to their influence and reach (don't get mad, Pushcart et al!). Given this methodology, this list is primarily useful for literary short fiction, although I have a genre sidebar tier at the very end, in case you write speculative/sci-fi/fantasy/mystery/sports/fairy tale/other genre stories that don’t tend to win mainstream prizes.
Circulation. Who doesn’t want more readers?
Money. Many wonderful magazines are broke, and getting paid for your work isn’t the most important thing. But it does feel good!
Other notes:
Reading periods and payment rates change more frequently than I can update this list, so always check the site’s submission information! And please feel free to let me know what I got wrong.
The order of the magazines within each tier means something until Tier 5, and then it’s random. I bumped paying markets to the top of each score (hard to explain, but you’ll see what I mean).
If you’d like to personalize, click here for a downloadable Excel spreadsheet.
I expanded the genre sidebar tier at the very end to include more litmags.
If you write longer short stories, here’s a list of litmags that accept longer work. If you have any to add, please contact me!
At a future date, I’ll do the same kind of list for creative nonfiction, if the meds hold out. Meanwhile, I’ve updated my much smaller list of additional CNF recommendations here.
I checked submission guidelines for the top 3 tiers, and then relied on user feedback for the rest. This list is probably about 94% accurate. I welcome all feedback; please use this handy dandy form to request corrections/additions/subtractions. Some folks have asked me to add a donation button for this site—instead, please feel free to buy one of my books, donate to a literary arts nonprofit, or subscribe to a struggling literary magazine you love.
Thanks, all, and I hope this helps!
The Litmag Ranking
This ranking has 5 tiers. Genre writers, see the genre sidebar tier at the very end. “Monthly visits to site” are all calculated via the same source, urlm.co, if those numbers are available. DK= don’t know, N/A=not applicable, *=online-only. Good luck, and happy submitting!
Tier 1, Elite GLOSSIES: career makers, VERY HIGH circulation, prizewinning, professional payment
New Yorker — Score: 614, Circulation: 1.3M total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 8.6M, Payment: $2/word, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
Harper’s — Score: 147, Circulation: 105K total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 232K, Payment: $0.50-1/word, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1.5 - 6, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
The Atlantic/*The Atlantic Online — Score: 97, Circulation: $1.4M total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 20.2M, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Tier 2, Elite litmags, prizewinning, usually good payment
Ploughshares — Score: 167, Circulation: 3.6K total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 14K, Payment: $45/pg, $450 max, Reading Period: June 1 - Nov 15, Response Time (months): 2 - 4, Maximum Word Count: up to 6K, prefers 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Paris Review — Score: 160, Circulation: 28K total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 435K, Payment: $500-1000, Reading Period: Feb, Jun, and Oct until reach capacity, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
Zoetrope: All-Story — Score: 136, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 8.8K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not listed and difficult to find!, Response Time (months): 5, Maximum Word Count: 7K, Other Restrictions: N/A
One Story — Score: 127, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 19K, Payment: $500, Reading Period: Opens Nov 3 until reach submission cap of 3K, Response Time (months): 2 - 6, Maximum Word Count: 3-8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
McSweeney’s — Score: 122.5, Circulation: 10K total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 328K, Payment: $400, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1 - 9, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
New England Review — Score: 110.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 3.3K, Payment: $20/pg, $50 minimum, plus 2 copies and 1-year subscription, Reading Period: Sep 1-Nov 1, Mar 1-May 1, may close early, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 20K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Kenyon Review, The — Score: 109.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 12.8K, Payment: $0.08 per published word of prose, min $80, max $450, Reading Period: September, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Sewanee Review — Score: 102, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): 1.5-2, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Conjunctions — Score: 94, Circulation: not restricted, Monthly Visits to Site: 3.5K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3 - 6, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, but usually under 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Granta — Score: 91.5, Circulation: 23K total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 88K, Payment: $400 for online version; DK print, Reading Period: March, June, September, December, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, but usually 3 - 6K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Electric Literature — Score: 89.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 44.4K, Payment: $300, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): 3 - 6, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Iowa Review — Score: 82.5, Circulation: 2.5K print, DK digital, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.08/word, $100 minimum, Reading Period: Aug 1 - Oct 1, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 25 pages, Other Restrictions: N/A
Virginia Quarterly Review — Score: 78.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 29.8K, Payment: $1K and above, Reading Period: Aug 1 - Aug 15, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: 2.5-8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Harvard Review — Score: 76.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: not listed, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: 1-7K, Other Restrictions: N/A
American Short Fiction — Score: 75, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 7.9K, Payment: not listed, Reading Period: Sep-Dec, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 2-15K, Other Restrictions: N/A
ZZYZZYVA — Score: 69, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 3.9K, Payment: not listed, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
Southern Review — Score: 65, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $75 for first pg, $25 for each subsequent pg, $300 max, plus 2 copies and 1-year subscription, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Jan 1, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: usually 10K (but will consider higher), Other Restrictions: N/A
Missouri Review — Score: 65, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 12.5K, Payment: $25/pg, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
Threepenny Review (*no simultaneous subs) — Score: 53.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 3.6, Payment: $400, Reading Period: Jan 1 - April 15, Response Time (months): .5 - 2, Maximum Word Count: under 4K preferred, Other Restrictions: “we emphatically do not consider simultaneous submissions,” and there’s no easy way to withdraw a submission
Yale Review — Score: 52.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $400 - 500, Reading Period: September, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 6K, Other Restrictions: no restrictions. This is the oldest CONTINUOUSLY-RUN literary magazine in the U.S.! Founded in 1819.
Georgia Review, The — Score: 51, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50/pg up to $800, Reading Period: Aug 15-May 15, Response Time (months): 10, Maximum Word Count: 9K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Drift, The — Score: 51, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $500 - $1,000, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Story Magazine — Score: 50.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $10/pg, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 25K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Colorado Review — Score: 48.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $300, Reading Period: Aug 1 - Mar 31, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: usually between 15 and 25 pages, Other Restrictions: N/A
Idaho Review — Score: 47, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $300 and 2 copies, Reading Period: Sept 8 - Nov 15, may close early, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: up to 25 pgs preferred, Other Restrictions: N/A
AGNI — Score: 46.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $20/pg, up to $300, Reading Period: Sep 1-Dec 15, Jan 15-May 31, Response Time (months): 2 - 4, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
Sun, The — Score: 43, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 60K, Payment: $200+, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: up to 7K preferred, Other Restrictions: N/A
Chicago Quarterly Review — Score: 41, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 2 copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Tier 3, Highly respected: small circulation, prizewinning, often payment
A Public Space — Score: 32.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 5.2K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
New Letters — Score: 31.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 2.5K, Payment: modest honorarium and two copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 5, Maximum Word Count: up to 30K/60 pages if novella, up to 5K if short story, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Joyland — Score: 31, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $200, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 12K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Bellevue Literary Review — Score: 30, Circulation: 1500 print circulation; DK digital circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $150, Reading Period: March 1 - ?, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 5K max, 2-4K preferred, Other Restrictions: “broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.”
Cincinnati Review — Score: 28.5, Circulation: 1.5K total circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 2.2K, Payment: $25/pg, Reading Period: Sep, December, and May, may close early in month, Response Time (months): 3 - 4, Maximum Word Count: 40 pgs, Other Restrictions: N/A
Boulevard — Score: 27.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 6.1K, Payment: $100-300, Reading Period: Nov 1 - May 1, Response Time (months): 3 - 4, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Michigan Quarterly Review — Score: 27.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 2.2K, Payment: $10/pg, Reading Period: Jan 1 to Apr 1 and Aug 1 to Nov 1, Response Time (months): 4-6, Maximum Word Count: 1.5-7K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Hudson Review (*no simultaneous subs) — Score: 27, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 2.4K, Payment: none, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Nov 30, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: no simultaneous submissions
Noon Annual — Score: 26.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Wigleaf: (very) short fiction — Score: 26.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 1.2K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: the final 7 days of Aug, Sep, Oct, Jan, Feb, and Mar, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 1K, Other Restrictions: N/A
BOMB magazine — Score: 26.5, Circulation: 32K print circulation, and free online content, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Ecotone — Score: 24.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: honorarium plus 2 copies and a 1-year subscription, Reading Period: Generally Jan and Sep and Valentine’s Day, Response Time (months): 6 - 9, Maximum Word Count: 30 pgs, Other Restrictions: “reimagining place” and the natural world
Santa Monica Review — Score: 22.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: copies and subscription, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 2, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “There is a special effort toward presenting and promoting writers who make their home in Southern California”
Five Points — Score: 20.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $15/pg to 250, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Dec 31, Jan 1 - Apr 30, Response Time (months): 1 - 4, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Alaska Quarterly Review — Score: 20, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 1 copy and AQR subscription, Reading Period: Dec 10 - 19, Response Time (months): 1.5-4, Maximum Word Count: 20K/80 pgs, Other Restrictions: N/A
Bennington Review — Score: 17, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $120/stories under 6 typeset pages, $250/longer work, Reading Period: Jan 5 - Mar 9, Response Time (months): 5-8, Maximum Word Count: 30 pgs, Other Restrictions: N/A
n+1 — Score: 16.5, Circulation: 10K print circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 75.5K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
North American Review — Score: 16, Circulation: 1K print circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 1.2K, Payment: $20 - 100, Reading Period: Nov 2 - May 1, Response Time (months): 5, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: no restrictions, but this is the oldest literary magazine in the US! Founded in 1815. Semi-tied with The Yale Review.
*TriQuarterly — Score: 16, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 5.7K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Oct-Dec, Mar-May, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Los Angeles Review — Score: 16, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 4K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Image Journal — Score: 15, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 22.2K, Payment: 100 - 400, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 5, Maximum Word Count: 6K “in general,” Other Restrictions: “All the work we publish reflects what we see as a sustained engagement with Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. That engagement can include unease, grappling, or ambivalence as well as orthodoxy; the approach can be indirect or allusive, but for a piece to be a fit for us, some connection to faith must be there.”
StoryQuarterly — Score: 15, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: various, most recently Aug 23 – Nov 23, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 6.25K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Common, The — Score: 15, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 2K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Mar 1-Jun 1 and Sep 1-Dec 1, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: “We seek stories, essays, poems, and dispatches that embody a strong sense of place: pieces in which the setting is crucial to character, narrative, mood, and language.”
Copper Nickel — Score: 14, Circulation: 2K total circulation (print only), Monthly Visits to Site: 1.8K, Payment: $30/pg, $50 minimum, $250 maximum, Reading Period: Sep 1-Dec 15, Jan 15-Mar 1, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Indiana Review — Score: 13.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $5/pg + 2 copies, Reading Period: Feb 1–Mar 31, Sep 1–Oct 31, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Massachusetts Review — Score: 13, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 7.9K, Payment: $100, Reading Period: Oct 1-Apr 30, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K/20 pages, Other Restrictions: N/A
Washington Square Review — Score: 12, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: two copies, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 2-4, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Witness — Score: 11, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $150, Reading Period: Sep for themed print issue, Jan for untamed online issue, dates may vary, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Epoch (*no simultaneous subs) — Score: 11, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100 - $500, Reading Period: Aug and Jan online subs, mail subs year-round, Response Time (months): 1.5, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: no simultaneous submissions
*New Orleans Review — Score: 10.5, Circulation: 1.4K, Monthly Visits to Site: 1.4K, Payment: $300, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
LitMag — Score: 10.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $150/under 5K words, $300/5K+ words and over, $100/flash, Reading Period: Oct 1 - Dec 15, Mar 1 - May 3, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 15K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Southampton Review — Score: 10.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100+ and 1 copy, Reading Period: Feb 7 - Mar 15, Sep 10 - Oct 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Prairie Schooner — Score: 10.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: copies, Reading Period: Sep 1 - May 1, Response Time (months): 4 - 6, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: they now DO consider simultaneous submissions
New Ohio Review — Score: 10.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: 8/15 - 11/15 & 1/15 - 4/15, but they close after a submission cap, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 20 pgs, Other Restrictions: see Reading Period
*Guernica — Score: 10, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 48.4K, Payment: $150, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: 7K, Other Restrictions: “your story will remain on our website in perpetuity”
Salamander — Score: 10, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Oct 1–April 1, with a holiday break late Dec to early Jan, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: on hiatus
Revel — Score: 10, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Catamaran Literary Reader — Score: 10, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: The site says, “By submitting your work to Catamaran, you grant us first North American serial rights, and the nonexclusive right to archive your work online for an indefinite period of time.” Both of these things seem uncomfortable; it seems that just by submitting, you grant both rights before knowing if they’ll buy the piece or under what terms, and you cannot ever remove your piece from the site even if you change your mind. Submission fees are also higher than average. Given that you’re probably submitting to more than one place, it might be advisable to wait to submit until this language changes on their site, so you can control where your work goes.
*Narrative Magazine — Score: 52.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 30.7K, Payment: $350-1000, Reading Period: all year round. VERY high submission fee of $26., Response Time (months): 1 - 3, Maximum Word Count: 40K, Other Restrictions: the (non-transparent) submission fee is $26. Exploitative? You decide.
Tier 4, Respected: usually small circulation, one or more recent prizes or “notable” prize mentions, sometimes payment
Pleiades — Score: 8.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: December, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: prefers under 12K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Prime Number — Score: 8.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Jan-Feb; May-Jun; Sept-Oct, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Ninth Letter — Score: 8, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $25/pg, Reading Period: Aug-Oct, Dec-Feb, Response Time (months): 2, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Southwest Review — Score: 8, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal and copies, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Baltimore Review — Score: 8, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Jewish Fiction — Score: 7.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Jewish fiction only
*Shenandoah — Score: 7, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, Reading Period: Open Sep 10 and Jan 15, may close early, Response Time (months): 1.5-2, Maximum Word Count: 8000 novel excerpts and short stories, 1000 flash fiction; submitters may include up to three pieces of flash in a single submission, Other Restrictions: no multiple submissions in different genres
Fiction Magazine — Score: 7, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: Oct 15 - Apr 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: best under 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Arts & Letters — Score: 6.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $10/pg, minimum payment $50, Reading Period: Aug 1-Jan 31, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 25 pgs, Other Restrictions: N/A
Berkeley Fiction Review — Score: 6.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $25, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 6-12, Maximum Word Count: 30 pgs (double spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman), Other Restrictions: N/A
West Branch — Score: 6, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.05/word to $100, Reading Period: Aug 1 - Apr 1, Response Time (months): 2.5, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Brick — Score: 6, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Oct 1-31, Apr 1-30, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Mississippi Review — Score: 6, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Tint Journal — Score: 6, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: N/A, Other Restrictions: N/A
Gulf Coast — Score: 5.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50/pg, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Mar 1, Response Time (months): 4 - 6, Maximum Word Count: 7K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Baffler — Score: 5.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Fractured Lit — Score: 5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50 for micro-fiction, $75 for flash, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: Micro-fiction up to 400, flash up to 1k, Other Restrictions: flash and micro-fiction only
Post Road — Score: 5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: Sep 15 - Nov 14, Feb 1 - Mar 31, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
BOA Editions — Score: 5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Greensboro Review — Score: 5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Nov 1 - Jan 1, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
New World Writing Quarterly — Score: 5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse) — Score: 4.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $20 - 35/pg to $200, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Dec 31, Feb 1 - May 31, Response Time (months): 3 - 4, Maximum Word Count: 2.5-8.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Pinch — Score: 4.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 2 copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3-6, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Potomac Review — Score: 4.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Subtropics — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $1000, Reading Period: Sep 18 to 22, Response Time (months): 1.5, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Masters Review: New Voices — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100 for flash fiction up to 1,000 words, $200 for short stories, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 2-3, Maximum Word Count: 7k, Other Restrictions: new writers only
*CRAFT — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100 for flash, $200 for short stories, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 4-6, Maximum Word Count: 6k, 1k for flash, Other Restrictions: N/A
Hopkins Review — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: Oct 1-31 , Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Split Lip — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $75, Reading Period: Free: Jan, Mar, May, Sep, Nov. “Tip jar” submissions the other months except for Jul 1 - Aug 15 or Dec., Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Water-Stone Review — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: copies, Reading Period: 10/1-12/1, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Third Coast — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: copies, Reading Period: October, Response Time (months): 3-6, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Pangyrus — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Louisville Review — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 2-4, Maximum Word Count: none, Other Restrictions: N/A
Point, The — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Catapult — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
South Carolina Review — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Red Rock Review — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Air/Light — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Mount Hope — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Tahoma Literary Review — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Khōréō — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Paper Brigade — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Jewish-interest
Journal, The — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Short Story, Long — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Raritan (*no simultaneous subs) — Score: 4, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: no simultaneous submissions
Zone 3 — Score: 3, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Feb 1-Apr 1. May also have fall dates?, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Southern Indiana Review — Score: 2.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100/stories under six pages, $200/longer work, Reading Period: Sep 15 - Dec 15, Feb 15- May 15 for fall/winter, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: under 10k preferred, Other Restrictions: N/A
*River Styx — Score: 2.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $45-150, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 5-6, Maximum Word Count: usually 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Prairie Fire — Score: 2.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Harvard Advocate — Score: 2.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Open to all, regardless of Harvard affiliation
*Another Chicago Magazine — Score: 2.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
One Teen Story — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $500, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: teen writers only
*Iron Horse — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Grist — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: May 15-Aug 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Consequence — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $30-50, Reading Period: Jan 15 - April 15, Jul 15 - Oct 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: "We are interested in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, reviews, visual art, and translations focused on the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence.”
Black Warrior Review — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal, Reading Period: Dec 1-Mar 1 & Jun 1-Sep 1, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Pembroke Magazine — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Sep 1-Apr 30, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Notre Dame Review — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Sep-Oct, Jan-Mar, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Terrain.org — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Epiphany — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Offing — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Southern Humanities Review — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Aug 15 -Nov 1, Jan 15 - Mar 14, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Stinging Fly — Score: 2, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Chautauqua — Score: 1.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Feb 15-Mar 31, may pause submissions, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*failbetter.com — Score: 1.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 8.5K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Boston Review — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $300, Reading Period: Sep 15 - June 15, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*SmokeLong Quarterly — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 2K, Payment: 100, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 0.5, Maximum Word Count: flash narratives up to 1000 words., Other Restrictions: “Please include no identifying information on your document, the filename, or the title on Submittable. Our editors read submissions blind.”
Willow Springs — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 100, Reading Period: Sep 1 - May 31, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: N/A
Grand Journal — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Arrowsmith — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
As You Were — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Puerto del Sol — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Oyster River Pages — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Florida Review — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Healing Muse — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Cleaver — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Broadkill Review — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Center for Appalachian Studies — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Chestnut Review — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Reed Magazine — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Wrath-Bearing Tree — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Lake Effect — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Hunger Mountain — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*The Normal School — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 2K, Payment: none, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Oct 1, Feb 1 - Mar 1, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Transition — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “Born in Africa and bred in the diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race”
Examined Life — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A\
FC2 — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Oxford Magazine — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Quarterly West — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Ragaire — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “showcasing the best of new Irish and international writing”
Laurel Review — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Adroit Journal — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Alta Journal — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Phoebe — Score: 1, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Confrontation — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $25 - 250, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: may still be on hiatus
Barrelhouse — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: under 8K preferred, Other Restrictions: N/A
*J Journal — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 6,000, Other Restrictions: Stories must be related to the theme of justice, if only tangentially
Mid-American Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1 - 5, Maximum Word Count: 6K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Kweli — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Western Humanities Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 25 pgs, Other Restrictions: N/A
Brooklyn Rail — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Chicago Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Oct 1 to Jun 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Crab Orchard Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Blackbird — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: query if over 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Minnesota Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Aug 15-Oct 15, Jan 15-Mar 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Worcester Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Vassar Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Literal Latte — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: may still be on hiatus
Nimrod — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Salt Hill — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Dec-Jan, Jul-Aug, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 30 pgs, Other Restrictions: N/A
Shade Mountain Press — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
PRISM International — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Meridian — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Pulp Literature — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Bat City Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Quiddity — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Rumpus — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A\
Outlook Springs — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*New Delta Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Exile — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fiction International — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fjords — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Provincetown Arts — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Cola (formerly Yemassee) — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Glossolalia — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Spectacle — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
African American Review — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Moon City — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Obsidian — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Chapter House (formerly Mud City) — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Reservoir Journal — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Sixfold Fiction — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: you must read 18 manuscripts in 36 days for your own manuscript to be considered.
*About Place — Score: 0.5, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “By submitting, you guarantee…you grant About Place Journal the rights to publish the submitted work with first serial rights.” Maybe they made a mistake in their wording, OR maybe they’re intending to say that you’re granting those rights upon submission, before you’ve even heard back from this magazine (or any others)…Given that you’re probably submitting to more than one place, it might be advisable to wait to submit until this language changes on their site, so you can control where your work goes.
Tier 5, Very good: usually small circulation, no recent prizes or mentions, sometimes payment
Capilano Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50/pg to $200, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Descant — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Big Fiction — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Nashville Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Flash Fiction Online — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $60, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: flash fiction only
Saranac Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $60, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Unstuck — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Frigg — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
annalemma — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Writer’s Foundry Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: 4,500, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Exposition Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: Sep 15 – Dec 31, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Coastal Shelf — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $30 per piece, or $100 for a feature, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Good Life Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $75 for the quarterly, $25 for the blog, Reading Period: Feb 1–Jul 31, Aug 1–Jan 31, Response Time (months): 6, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fiddlehead — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $40 CAD/pg, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Grain Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50/pg CAD to 225, Reading Period: Sep 1 - May 31, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 3.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Malahat Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $40/pg CAD, Reading Period: April and May for international writers, year-round for Canadian writers, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Antigonish Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 1.6, Payment: $10/pg to $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Turnrow — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $15/pg, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Funicular Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $10/page (up to $100) for short story, $25 for flash, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
F(r)iction — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $10/page + 2 copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1-2, Maximum Word Count: 7.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50-250, Reading Period: Jan 1-31, Jul 1-31, Response Time (months): 1, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Lilith — Score: 0, Circulation: 5K print circulation, Monthly Visits to Site: 9.4K, Payment: $50-150, depending on length, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Jewish & feminist work
*Short Story Stack — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: Winning story gets $100 plus 50% of subscription revenue, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: It’s a different format, more like a monthly contest + publication. You do not have to be a subscriber to submit.
Shooter Literary Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: £25, Reading Period: Feb-May and Aug-Nov, Response Time (months): 1 month after deadline, Maximum Word Count: 2-6K, Other Restrictions: Themed issues 2x year
Rosebud — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $30, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: Ideally 1K-3K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Capable Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $20, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 3K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Bourbon Penn — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $10-25, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Page & Spine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $20, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Vestal Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $25, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Festival Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $15, Reading Period: Jan-Feb for quarterly issues, rolling for web, Response Time (months): 2-3, Maximum Word Count: 2,500, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Sequestrum — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $10-15, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Big Wing Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $5-10, Reading Period: varies, Response Time (months): 1-2, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Meanjin — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.20/word AUD, Reading Period: Mar 14? - Jun 3, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 2-4K, Other Restrictions: Australian writers only
*Elegant Literature — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 10 cents/word, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1, Maximum Word Count: .5-2K, Other Restrictions: new writers only
Asia Literary Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.05/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Pedestal Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.05/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
After Dinner Conversation — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.01/word, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1.5-2, or 48 hours using their Fast Pass, Maximum Word Count: 7K, Other Restrictions: Writing must stimulate ethical and philosophical discussions.
*Cafe Irreal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $0.01/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 2-4, Maximum Word Count: 2K, Other Restrictions: “Irreal”/fantastic fiction
Vine Leaves Literary Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 3.50 EUR, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Five South — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Porter House Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*carte blanche — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fugue — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Atticus Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: nominal, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Raising Mothers — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: varies, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): Under 3, Maximum Word Count: 1.2-3K, Other Restrictions: themed issues. “We exclusively publish narratives from women/femme/gnb writers of color who parent or their work is tangential in some way.”
Bellingham Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: sometimes, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Cimarron Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 2 copies, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3-6, Maximum Word Count: 25 pages preferred, Other Restrictions: N/A
Cutbank — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Sep 15 - Feb 1, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 8.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Sonora Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Beloit Fiction Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Little Star — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Salmagundi — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: Jan-Apr, may have a fall period?, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Denver Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Feb 15-Mar 1, maybe there’s also a fall period?, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Bridge Eight — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Apr and Oct, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Event Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Aug-Sep, Dec-Jan, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Cut, The — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Arkansas International — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Nov 15-Jan 15, Jun 15-Aug 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Thoughtprints — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*X-R-A-Y — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Memorious — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not listed, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fourteen Hills — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Feb 15 - Jun 15, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 6K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Portland Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Redivider — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: .5K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Asian American Literary Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
North Carolina Literary Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Crab Creek Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Little Fiction — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: on hiatus
*Hobart — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 2K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Tampa Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: currently by invitation only
Carolina Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Mizna — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: features the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists
At Length — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Texas Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Anomaly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/ALumina — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*PANK — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 9.9K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Jelly Bucket — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
E-Flux Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Emrys Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: may still be on hiatus
Foglifter — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: LBGTQIA+ authors only
*Cosmonauts Avenue — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Chicago Tribune Printer’s Row — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Passages North — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Lunch Ticket — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Hysterical Rag — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fence — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Apple Valley Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Ragged Lion — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Collateral Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Writing that "pushes the boundaries of exploring the impact of war from a range of perspectives…work that puts a spotlight on all those spaces beyond the combat zone.”
Southeast Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Booth — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
subTerrain — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Hayden’s Ferry — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Words without Borders — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: translations only
The MacGuffin — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
North Dakota Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
BLOOM — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Bangalore Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: 4K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Commonweal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Santa Clara Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
American Reader — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
JMWW — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Necessary Fiction — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Northwest Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Chariton Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Pithead Chapel — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 2, although they try to keep it under 1 week, Maximum Word Count: 4K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Sou’wester — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
New South — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Able Muse — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Black Renaissance Noire — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: African-American writers only
*Brain, Child — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: motherhood themes
*Fiction Writers Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Barcelona Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 4500, Other Restrictions: N/A
Dublin Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Bigbridge.org — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*The White Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Queen’s Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 2, Maximum Word Count: 3K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*PIF magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Nowhere — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: on hiatus
*Contrary — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Byliner — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: does not accept unsolitcited submissions in fiction
Callaloo — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: African-American Southern writers only
Land-Grant College Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
The London Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 4K, Other Restrictions: DK
Tikkun — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Jewish themes
Tweed’s — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature & Art — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: women writers only
Bamboo Ridge — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Calyx — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: women writers only
Brooklyn Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Appalachian Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Appalachian writers only
Blue Earth Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Blue Mesa Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Dogwood — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Dossier Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Freight: What are You Carrying? — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*New York Tyrant — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Jabberwock Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
New Millennium Writings — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Moth — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Typishly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: “Personalized response in just one day,” Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
New Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
[sic] — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Caribbean Writer — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Caribbean writers only
Faultline — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Christian themes
Folio — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Stone Canoe — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Saturday Evening Post — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Jan 1-Jul 1, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 3K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Whiskey Island — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Columbia Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Connecticut Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
New York Stories — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
American Literary Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 4, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Artful Dodge — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Ballyhoo Stories — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Bridge — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Griffith Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Kyoto Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*LIT Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Margins — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Asian American themes
Nebraska Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Territory — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Polyphony — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time
(months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Quarter After Eight — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Parhelion — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Quick Fiction — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Tiferet — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Transformations — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Underground Voices — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
War, Literature and The Arts — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Apalachee Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Apogee — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: July and January, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Armchair/Shotgun — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Bayou Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*BlazeVOX — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Blue Lake Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Bodega — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Brooklyn Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Burnside Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: may still be on hiatus
*Little Fiction, Big Truths — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Eclectica — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Evergreen — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Decomp — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*The Boiler — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Superstition Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Threadcount — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Calliope — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Canteen — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Cream City Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Cutthroat — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*DIAGRAM — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Decadent Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): under 3, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: Metafiction only
Eclipse Lit — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Elimae — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*FictionWeek Literary Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Five Dials — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fourth River — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Gargoyle — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Gigantic Sequins — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Great River Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*HAD Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Harpur Palate — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Hawai’i Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Hazlitt — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
HOOT — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Kaleidoscope — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: disability themes
Great Plains Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Duende — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*West Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Madison Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Literary Orphans — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Litro Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Mom Egg Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: 5/1-7/15. Free 'early bird' submissions 5/1-5/7 until they reach their submittable limit of 200, Response Time (months): 3-6, Maximum Word Count: 1K, Other Restrictions: “We publish work on women's lives and motherhood, but one need not be a woman or a mother to submit, as long as the subject matter is within our wheelhouse.”
*MER VOX Online Quarterly (Mom Egg Review online) — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: varies, Response Time (months): “fast,” Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “curated folios”
*Museum of Americana, The — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: work that “repurposes the old, the dying, the forgotten, or the almost entirely unknown aspects of Americana”
*New Mexico Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Orca: A Literary Journal — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Painted Bride Quarterly — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Penn Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Permafrost — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Phare — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: none but they like flash fiction. U.K.-based
*Roanoke Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: Sep 1 - Dec 1, Response Time (months): under 1, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Room — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “restricted to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people”
SAND — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Saint Ann’s Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Seattle Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Solstice: a Magazine of Diverse Voices — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Soundings Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Soundings East — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
South Dakota Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Summerset Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: 8K, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Talking Writing — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Tendril — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: may still be on hiatus
*Twisted Vine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Unsaid — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Valparaiso Fiction Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Volt — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
William and Mary Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Winter Tangerine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: may still be on hiatus
3:AM Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
100 Word Story — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: submissions must be exactly 100 words
Calla Press — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): .75-1, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Christian and Biblical focus. Fiction must be flash.
*Wildness — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: not restricted, Response Time (months): 1, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
Peach Mag — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Lascaux Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Kelsey Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: must be from Mercer County, NJ
Firmament — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Welter — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Chiron Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
*Blackbriar Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: none, Reading Period: April 15- May 15, Response Time (months): 24 hrs to 7 days, Maximum Word Count: 6K, Other Restrictions: “weird, confusing, eerie, unexpected, interior and, most importantly, excellent”
eMerge Magazine — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: October, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 2.5K, Other Restrictions: N/A
The Fiction Desk — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Confingo — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Exacting Clam — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Fictive Dream — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Galaxy Brain — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Gutter — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Manchester Review — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: N/A
Turkoslavia — Score: 0, Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: varies, Response Time (months): 1-3, Maximum Word Count: not restricted, Other Restrictions: “dedicated to publishing translations from Turkic and Slavic languages, loosely defined”
Sidebar: Highly respected GENRE/SPECIALTY magazines, usually with HIGHER circulation, payment, and genre-specific prizes
*Note: in no particular order, and no scores because I haven't calculated scores from genre-specific awards. Someday!Tractor Beam — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $1000, Reading Period: varies, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 6K, Other Restrictions: speculative/sci-fi, “seeks original written and graphic works set on a future Earth transformed by new approaches to soil."
Gray’s Sporting Journal — Circulation: 28K, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $600 for “yarns,” Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: sporting adventure: hunting, fishing, and expeditions.
*Uncharted — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $200, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): 3, Maximum Word Count: 5K, Other Restrictions: only sci-fi, fantasy, horror, thriller, crime, and mystery
*GigaNotoSaurus — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 5-25K, Other Restrictions: fantasy/sci-fi
*Heroic Fantasy Quarterly — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: heroic fantasy
Three-Lobed Burning Eye — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $100/story and $30/flash fiction, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: horror, sci-fi and fantasy flash fiction and short stories
Phantom Drift — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $50, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: new fabulism/fantasy
*Aurealis — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 60AUD, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: science fiction, fantasy or horror from Australian and New Zealand writers
Analog: Science Fiction and Fact — Circulation: 21.5K, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 8-10¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: sci-fi
*Lightspeed — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 15K, Payment: 8¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy/sci-fi
*Beneath Ceaseless Skies — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 8¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 10K, Other Restrictions: literary adventure fantasy
*Crossed Genres — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 6¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: any genre
*PodCastle — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 6¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine — Circulation: 100K, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 5-8¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: mystery
*The Dark — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 3¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 2-6K, Other Restrictions: horror/dark fantasy
*Pseudopod — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 6¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: horror
*Drabblecast — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 6¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: speculative
*Strange Horizons — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: 6¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: speculative
Asymmetry — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: $5, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: speculative
Not One of Us — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: ¼¢/word, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: explores “otherness” from every possible fictional angle: horror, sci-fi, fantasy, noir
*Uncanny Magazine — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: some payment, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy/sci-fi
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 4.7K, Payment: $0.03/word, $25 minimum, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: speculative
Fantasy & Science Fiction — Circulation: 10K, Monthly Visits to Site: 67.5, Payment: some payment, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy/sci-fi. Has won non-genre prizes.
Clarkesworld — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 10.7K, Payment: some payment, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy/sci-fi
*Tor — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 566.5K, Payment: some payment, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy/sci-fi
Asimov’s Science Fiction — Circulation: 17K, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: sci-fi
The Fairy Tale Review — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: 3.3K, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fairy tales. Has won non-genre prizes.
Black Cat Mystery Magazine — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: mystery
Mystery Tribune — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: mystery
The Strand — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: mystery
Mermaids Monthly — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: about mermaids!
FIYAH — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Black speculative fiction
Nightmare — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: Horror and dark fantasy
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: mystery
Hypnos — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: fantasy, science fiction, and horror
*365 Tomorrows — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 600, Other Restrictions: sci-fi flash
*Ash Tales — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: 2K, Other Restrictions: dystopian, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic stories — on histus
*Bloodletter — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: “feminist horror magazine showcasing personal and analytical perspectives on the horrific by women, trans, and non-binary writers”
Tough — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: crime fiction
*Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: speculative
*Apex Magazine — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: sci-fi, fantasy and horror
Bards and Sages Quarterly — Circulation: DK, Monthly Visits to Site: DK, Payment: DK, Reading Period: DK, Response Time (months): DK, Maximum Word Count: DK, Other Restrictions: speculative
One of these markets is anxiously awaiting your short story. I hope this helps, and good luck!
—Erika
Last updated: 1/10/26