As a Calvin writer, you may be looking for other places to share your work. This page explains how to submit your writing to literary journals. It also includes Calvin Writers Recommend, our database of recommended literary journals.

Calvin Writers Recommend
Journal | Genre | Media | Length | About | Calvin-specific info | Website |
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Albion Review | ![]() |
Print (1/year) | ≤15 pages or ≤5 poems | A national undergraduate literary journal. | More | Website |
Allegheny Review | ![]() |
Print (1/year) | ≤20 pages or ≤5 poems | A national journal of undergraduate literature | More | Website |
The Banner | ![]() |
Print (12/year) | 600-1200 words | The official monthly publication of the Christian Reformed Church in North America | More | Website |
Black Warrior Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤7,000 words or ≤5 poems | A semiannual magazine of fiction, poetry, essays, art, comics, and reviews | More | Website |
Brevity | ![]() |
Online (4/year) | ≤750 words | A journal of concise literary nonfiction | More | Website |
Burnside Writers Collective | ![]() |
Online (Daily-Weekly) | ≤1000 words | An online magazine presenting an alternative to franchise faith | More | Website |
Button | ![]() |
Print (1/year) | 300-2,000 words or 1-3 poems | New England’s tiniest magazine of poetry and fiction and gracious living | More | Website |
The Carolina Quarterly | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | ≤25 pages or ≤6 poems | Literary journal covering fiction, poetry, essays, nonfiction, artwork and reviews | More | Website |
catapult magazine | ![]() |
Online (biweekly) | Unspecified | unite. learn. serve. | More | Website |
The Chattahoochee Review | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | Unspecified | The literary quarterly of Georgia Perimeter College | More | Website |
The Christian Century | ![]() |
Print (biweekly) | Unspecified | A progressive ecumenical magazine based in Chicago | More | Website |
Clackamas Literary Review | ![]() |
Print (1/year) | One story or ≤4 poems | Clackamas Literary Review is a nationally distributed, annual print journal | More | Website |
The Claremont Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤5,000 words | The international magazine of young authors 13-19 years old | More | Website |
Collision | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤3,000 words or ≤5 poems | Dedicated to publishing student poetry and nonfiction prose | More | Website |
The Colorado Review | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | 15-25 pages | A national literary journal | More | Website |
The Conium Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤3 flash (≤1000 words), ≤2 short story, 1 novella (≤15,000 words) or ≤5 poems | A journal seeking innovative writing. Make it weird. | More | Website |
Crab Orchard Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤25 pages or ≤6 poems | A journal of creative works | More | Website |
Crazyhorse Literary Journal | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤8,500 words or 3-5 poems | To publish the entire spectrum of today’s fiction, essays, and poetry | More | Website |
Creative Nonfiction | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | ≤5,000 words | The voice of the genre | More | Website |
Cricket | ![]() |
Print (9/year) | 200-2,000 words or poem ≤50 lines | A literature magazine for kids ages 9-14 | More | Website |
Drunken Boat | ![]() |
Online (12/year) | ≤5,000 words or ≤3 poems | International Online Journal of the Arts | More | Website |
Ecotone | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤30 pages or ≤5 poems | Reimagining Place | More | Website |
The First Line | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | 300-3,000 (fiction) or 500-800 (nonfiction) | An eclectic journal that requires submissions to begin with a provided first line | More | Website |
Geez | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | 50-500 words | Holy mischief in an age of fast faith | More | Website |
The Georgia Review | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | One story or 3-5 poems | A quarterly publication of essays, short fiction, poetry, reviews, and art | More | Website |
Glimmer Train | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | ≤12,000 words | Quarterly magazine of literary short fiction | More | Website |
Gulf Coast | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤7,000 words or 3-5 poems | A journal of literature and fine arts | More | Website |
Gulf Stream | ![]() |
Print and online (2/year) | ≤10,000 words or ≤5 poems | Literary magazine published by Creative Writing Program at Florida International University | More | Website |
H.O.W. Journal | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤8,000 words or ≤5 poems | Helping Orphans Worldwide | More | Website |
Hanging Loose Magazine | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | 1 story or ≤6 poems | Dedicated to publishing new writers and old writers whose work deserves a larger audience | More | Website |
Hayden's Ferry Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | 1 prose piece or ≤6 poems | Semiannual magazine | More | Website |
The Hudson Review | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | ≤10,000 words or ≤7 poems | Celebrating sixty years of literature and the arts | More | Website |
Image | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | ≤6,000 words or ≤5 poems | A journal of the arts and religion | More | Website |
The Iowa Review | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | Unspecified | A literary journal carrying fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews | More | Website |
The Louisville Review | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | 1 story or ≤5 poems | A literary magazine since 1976 | More | Website |
The Malahat Review | ![]() |
Print and Online (4/year) | 1,200-8,000 words or 5-10 poems | Essential Poetry & Fiction | More | Website |
McSweeney's | ![]() |
Print (4/year) | Unspecified | Timothy McSweeney’s Politics Surprise the Other Missionaries | More | Website |
Mid-American Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤6,000 words or ≤6 poems | Est. 1972, international since 1980 | More | Website |
The Mississippi Review | ![]() |
Online (4/year) | 1,000-8,000 words or 3 poems | Online version of the literary magazine published by the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi | More | Website |
Narrative Magazine | ![]() |
Online (3/year) | 500-15,000 words or ≤5 poems | An online publication of various literary genres | More | Website |
New Ohio Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | Unspecified | a publication of the Creative Writing Program of Ohio University's English Department | More | Website |
Ninth Letter | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤8,000 words or 3-6 poems | A collaborative between the Creative Writing Program and the School of Art and Design at UICA | More | Website |
The North Central Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤5,000 words between 1-2 prose pieces or ≤5 poems | Publishing exclusively the writings and works of undergraduate students | More | Website |
The Other Journal | ![]() |
Online (4/year) | ≤2,500 words or ≤6 poems | An Intersection of Theology and Culture | More | Website |
The Oxford American | ![]() |
Print and online (4/year) | 1 prose piece or 3-5 poems | The Southern magazine of good writing | More | Website |
Painted Bride Quarterly | ![]() |
Print and online (4/year) | ≤5,000 words fiction or ≤3,000 words nonfiction or ≤5 poems | A peer-edited journal devoted to publishing rigorous works of undergraduate scholarship | More | Website |
Perspectives | ![]() |
Print and online (10/year) | ≤3,000 words | A journal of theology in the broad Reformed tradition | More | Website |
Ploughshares | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | Around 5,000 words or ≤5 poems | Award-winning poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs | More | Website |
The Point | ![]() |
Print and online (4-8/year) | 4,000-7,000 word essays or 1,000-2,500 word reviews | A Chicago-based print journal publishing rigorous but accessible writing about contemporary life | More | Website |
Prairie Margins | ![]() |
Print (1/year) | ≤6,000 words or ≤6 poems | An undergraduate literary magazine | More | Website |
Relief Journal | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤8,000 words fiction ≤5,000 nonfiction ≤1,000 words poetry | A Christian Literary Expression | More | Website |
River Teeth | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | Unspecified | A journal of nonfiction narrative | More | Website |
Rock & Sling | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≤5000 words or ≤5 poems | A literary journal of witness | More | Website |
Ruminate | ![]() |
Print and online (4/year) | ≤5,000 total words in 1/2 prose pieces or ≤3 poems | Faith in literature and art | More | Website |
The Seattle Review | ![]() |
Print (2/year) | ≥40 pages prose or ≥10 pages poetry | Wholly committed to the publication of longer works of poetry, novellas, and lyric essays | More | Website |
Shenandoah | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | ≤25 pages or ≤5 poems | To encourage imagination, precision, prudence, diversity and daring | More | Website |
Sleet Magazine | ![]() |
Digital (2/year) | Unspecified | A journal seeking the unexpected | More | Website |
Soft blow |
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Online (monthly) | 4-6 poems | An online home for contemporary poetry from all over the world | More | Website |
Sojourners | ![]() |
Print and online (12/year) | 1,200-3,000 word articles; 500-1,000 word reviews; 1-3 poems | A Christian magazine concerned with faith, politics, and culture | More | Website |
The Splinter Generation | ![]() |
Online (often) | ≤2,500 words or ≤3 poems | An online generational literary compilation | More | Website |
Storyscape | ![]() |
Online (2/year) | One prose piece or ≤5 poems | truth / untruth / we don’t know and they won’t tell us | More | Website |
Strange Horizons | ![]() |
Online (weekly) | 5,000-9,000 word fiction; 2,000-5,000 nonfiction articles; 1,500-2,000 word reviews, ≤100 line poems | A weekly speculative fiction magazine | More | Website |
TriQuarterly | ![]() |
Print (3/year) | ≤3,500 words or ≤6 poems | Features fiction, poetry, literary essays, and graphic art | More | Website |
Zaum | ![]() |
Print (1/year) | ≤5,000 words or ≤5 poems | A literary and art magazine providing college students a venue for publishing their work | More | Website |
Data and analyses compiled by Alissa Goudswaard (’10)
Formatted and updated by Josh deLacy (’13)
Further updated by Sarah Ball (’14)
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Evaluate a literary journal by its:
History – journals that have been around longer are, as a general rule, better.
Number of submissions they receive – the top journals receive more than 1,000 each month.
Payment for contributors – only successful, established journals can usually afford to pay writers.
Print issues – better known and respected journals will at least as a print anthology, even if most of their other work is online.
Other resources for evaluating literary journals: Writer’s Relief, Bookfox, and Perpetual Folly.