Literary Journals

Literary Magazines . Literary Journals . Literature Reviews . Literary Newpapers . Blogs (Literary Web Logs) A Web Directory

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A free directory of independent writers and artists,ezine publishers and illustrators.
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Directory of Open Access Journals.
This service covers access to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

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Abalone Moon,
an online poetry/arts journal which is both thematic and eclectic in its choice of poetry and art. It features work by both known and unknown contemporary poets and artists. Included in the journal are poetry and arts links.
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The Absinthe Literary Review
Short stories, poems, poetics and essays.
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Absurdist Monthly Review
Downloadable pdf magazine featuring articles on metafictional devices, experimental writing & publishing techniques, absurdist literary theory and history.
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Aeqai
ÆQAI: the journal for critical thinking, review and reflective prose on contemporary visual art in Greater Cincinnati.
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Agni Magazine
For over thirty years, AGNI has brought its readers the best national and international writing from established as well as emerging writers.
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Alsop Review
A not-for-profit poetry and literature review.
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Alt-X Online
a publishing network where the digertali meet the literati. Art and fiction installations on the web, cyberfiction, writerly webs. Articles on internet versus print media.
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Ambit,
one of Britain's leading literary and arts magzines.
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American Literature
Each issue contains articles covering the works of several American authors—from colonial to contemporary—as well as an extensive book review section.
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The American Literary Review
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American literary magazines. Newpages.com, Literary Magazines.
The NewPages Guide to the best literary magazines in print and online.
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Anderbo
Fiction, poetry, "fact", photography.
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The Antigonish Review (TAR),
one of Canada's leading literary quarterlies.
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Antioch Review
The Antioch Review is a distinguished, well-established literary journal that publishes lively and cogent essays, fiction, poetry and book reviews.
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Art Bin
Swedish/international forum for art, literature, music, cultural politics.
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Arete tri-quarterly arts magazine.
An excellent British journal of contemporary literature, contemporary writers. Edited by Craig Raine.
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Arts and Letters
Daily news updates. Debate, criticism, reviews.
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Arts & Opinion
Arts, Culture, Analysis. A bi-monthly looking for quality critical writing.
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Art Times Journal
A literary journal and resource for all of the arts, crossing geographical barriers, counties and states. Based in the Hudson Valley Region and the Metropolitan New York area.
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Ascent
Ascent is a tri-annual collection of fiction, poetry and essays that provokes and entertains the head as well as the heart. Each issue features dramatic poetry, thoughtful essays, and fiction with a solid narrative.
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Atlantic Online
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Australian Reader
AustralianReader.com publishes new fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Australian authors.
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AuthorScoop
With exclusive columns and author interviews, along with constantly updated links to the latest literary news and reviews, videos related to the craft and business of writing, author quotes and poetry. AuthorScoop is a one-stop shop for both information and inspiration.
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Authors Den
Where authors and readers come together. Ebooks, stories, poetry, reviews.

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Babel: The Tower of Babel
The Multilingual, Multicultural Online Journal and Community of Arts and Ideas.
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Bad Idea Magazine
A quarterly magazine of personal storytelling: journalism, photostories, artwork and comics.
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Ballyhoo Stories
A biannual literary magazine dedicated to the best in fiction and creative non-fiction. Each issue has a theme elaborated on through visual art and design, in print and on the web.
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Banipal
Literature and art of the Middle East.
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Blithe Quarterly
A journal for gay short fiction.
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Blogs (Web Logs) . See also: Literary Web Logs

Literary Weblogs
An Overview . Blogging Literature, The Best Literary Blogs. The Complete Review Quarterly.
Blogs. Web Logs
An internet directory from The Open Directory Project.

Personal journals.

Publishing news. A web log from Arts Journal.
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Writers' weblogs. Dmoz.org

Bloomsbury Magazine, London.
Literary life on the web. An on-line magazine for book lovers, readers and writers.

Bloomsbury Magazine research centre.
A free on- line database of reference books.

Bold Type
A literary magazine from Random House.
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Bomb magazine.
Interviews between artists, writers, musicians, directors and actors.
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Bookforum
Art; culture, fiction. Associated with Artforum.
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The Boston Review
Politics and literature.
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Brick
A literary journal. A reader’s and writer’s magazine.
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Burning Press
Live poetry and prose.
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Caketrain
Caketrain is a literary journal and press based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The editors wish to bring to the reader the very best in contemporary creative writing. They believe that literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry are, as ever, the cornerstones of new and inventive human observation and the ever-expanding frontiers of linguistic expression.
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California Literary Review
Essays, interviews, book reviews. Their goal is to be the #1 source on the web for insightful, irreverent book reviews, thought provoking essays, and interviews with talented authors.
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Callaloo
The premier African Diaspora literary journal, publishes original works by, and critical studies of, black writers worldwide.
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Cerebration
Cerebration is a quarterly electronic journal that aims at bridging the gap between academic and non-academic circles and initiates critical thought and creative expression trans-culturally. The editorial advisory board has eminent academics, authors and journalists like Gayatri Spivak, Bapsi Sidhwa, Cassandra Laity, and Jack Lynch among other renowned academics, journalists and filmmakers from US & India.
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Cerise Press
Cerise Press is an international online (also print) journal of literature, arts and culture based in the U.S.A and France. The journal, published three times a year, includes poetry, poetry in translation, interviews, reviews, essays, art, photography and more.
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Cha
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal Cha is the first and only Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing quality poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art from and about Asia.
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The Chattahoochee Review
literary magazine is a nationally recognized literary journal. Their purpose, a twenty-five year literary tradition, is to publish original writing of literary merit. Each quarter, they publish the best in creative writing, essays, fiction, literary criticisms; everything you’ve come to expect from a celebrated literary magazine.
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Chelsea Magazine
Unaffiliated with any institution, Chelsea has been publishing new, established, and soon-to-be-established voices in literature since 1958. Its emphasis is on translations, art, and cross-cultural exchange.
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CiberLetras
Revista de crítica literaria y de cultura - Journal of literary criticism and culture.
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Cold Mountain Review
Founded in 1972 by the poet R.T. Smith and other graduate students in the English Department at Appalachian State University, Cold Mountain Review publishes creative work and interviews with new and notable poets from across the nation and overseas. In addition to bringing the books of neglected small presses to the attention of readers, Cold Mountain Review aims to represent poets from diverse backgrounds.
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Comparative Literature
The Official Journal of the American Comparative Literature Association
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Comparative Literature and Culture -
peer refereed electronic journal aimed at publishing scholarship in comparative literature and culture.
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Conjunctions Forum of innovative writing.
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Contrary
Founded at the University of Chicago, Contrary Magazine publishes poetry, fiction, commentary, and specimens that blur those categories. Published on campus as the Journal of Unpopular Discontent, Contrary now appears quarterly on the web and publishes authors from across the world.
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Cortland Review
Online literary magazine in Real Audio.
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Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, U.S.
The Council serves one of the most active segments of American arts and culture: the independent publishers of exceptional fiction, poetry and prose.(CLMP).
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Creative Non-Fiction
A journal devoted exclusively to the non-fiction genre.
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CTheory
Art theory, literary theory, society, technology and culture articles.
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Cultural Logic
An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice
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Das Gefrorene Meer
A German literary journal that publishes in German and other European lanuages.
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Debris Magazine
Poetry/prose, short stories, travel writing and reviews and monthly features on artists and photographers. Based in Pittsburgh, U.S.
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Descant,
a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world.
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Dislocate
A literary journal published by graduate students at the University of Minnesota.
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Dogwood Journal
Dogwood magazine promotes unknown and emerging artists and features a wide array of artwork that ranges from music to photography to poetry.
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Dossier,
an independent arts and culture journal out of New York, whose concept is to bring together creative writing, photography, fashion and art.
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Dotlit
The online journal of creative writing.
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Double Room
A journal of prose poetry and flash fiction.
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Drunken Boat
an international online journal for the arts that publishes more traditional forms of representation, such as poetry, prose, and photography, alongside works of art endemic to the medium of the web, such as hypertext, audio, video, and web art.
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Early Modern Literary Studies
A refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area.
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Eclectica Magazine
Founded in1996 as a quality web-only literary magazine not bound by formula or genre and harnessing technology to further the reading experience rather than for its own sake.
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The Edge Edge Foundation, Inc.,
was established in 1988 as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world.
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Eclectic Flash
A non-profit literary journal dedicated to bringing readers the best flash literture available on the internet, regardless of genre.
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Emprise Review
Emprise Review is an internationally read monthly online and quarterly print literary journal. Emprise Review was founded first on the notion that the hallmarks of quality literature needed preserving in the age of media dilution.
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Escarp
A selective, Twitter-based review of brief (140 characters or less) poetry and prose (including fiction and nonfiction).
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Eserver.org
The EServer is a unique website where 226 writers, artists, editors and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works (currently 32435 of them in all).The EServer (founded in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon University as the English Server) attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work. Now based at Iowa State University, they offer 44 collections on such diverse topics as contemporary art, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, they publish hypertext, audio and even video recordings.

The EServer Journals
EServer Journals Collection. A place to find academic journals and popular magazines that represent the best writing on the Web.

Essays and Fictions
A journal of literature and criticism, based in New York City.
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Euphony
A journal of literature and art by undergraduates of The University of Chicago.
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European online journals

European literary and scholarly journals online.

Exquisite Corpse
A Journal of Letters and Life

Failbetter.com
An online literary journal devoted to publishing original works of fiction, poetry and art. Featured works by established writers such as Lisa Shea, Martha Cooley, Peter Christopher, Sam Lipsyte and others.
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Figdust
A literary journal based in Atlanta, Georgia, presenting a collection of writing with language and content that are both accessible and enjoyable.
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The Final Draft
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Flak Magazine
A noncomprehensive guide to everything. The magazine exists to take the raw creativity of strong writers and temper it with good sense, good taste and the spirit of responsible journalism.
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Flashpoint
Critcism, politics, art and poetry.
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Fool's Paradise, by Magdalen Powers.
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Forge Journal
A literary and arts journal considering a wide range of subjects and genres.
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French literary journals, media, ezines

Lingua Franca
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Livresse
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La tribune Littéraire
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Bibliothaeca idealis
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Exigence Littéraire
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Bouquins.net
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Chroniques de la Luxiotte
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CritiquesLibres
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Le matricule des Anges
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Magazine littéraire
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Nuit blanche
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Magazine Littéraire
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Radio France

Fringe Magazine
Move over Wonder Bread! Fringe Magazine seeks submissions in all genres. We want writing that confronts and questions, work that drives readers to action, and literature that pushes the boundaries of form. Fringe: The noun that verbs your world. For artists who want to experiment with old forms and engender the new. Currently, Fringe offers a survey of genres every other month, publishing a single work in each genre.

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German literary and culture journals

Das Gefrorene Meer
A German literary journal that publishes literature not only in German but also in French, Russian, Dutch, Latvian. All texts appear in the original language and German.
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Edit.
German journal for new literature
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Lyrikline
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Text+Kritik
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Quadrature
Sprache im technischen Zeitalter

Georgia Review
Each issue of The Georgia Review features 200 pages of fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews.
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Glint
The literary journal of Fayetteville State University, in print and online. Short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, essays, art, photography, musical pieces and spoken word submissions.
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Grand Street
A magazine dedicated to art, fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
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Granta
British new writing.
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The Great American Poetry Show
The Great American Poetry Show is a serial poetry anthology open year-round to submissions of poems in any subject, in any style, and in any number with a SASE (self-addressed stamped envelope).
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Greatcoat,
a journal of poetry, creative non-fiction, and essays on poetics.
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Guardian
Articles, arts and culture reviews (U.K.).

Books Unlimited
Current reviews, essays, authors, criticiism. books, philsophy, entertainment and gossip from the Guardian Newspaper Online, U.K.

Harvard Review
is an award-winning semiannual literary journal. They publish an eclectic and international range of poetry, fiction, essays, art, and book reviews.
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Hungry Soul
An on-line literary magazine, seeks to explore the question 'what is the soul?' through poetry, story, essay, imagery, metaphor and the creative imagination.
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Independent News, U.K.
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Ink & Ashes
A Journal of the Senses. Ink & Ashes features poetry, creative non-fiction, essays and visual art that elicits the senses.
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Ink-Filled Page
Ink-Filled Page literary and arts journal features fiction, nonfiction and artwork in four quarterly electronic issues and one print anthology each year. Contributing writers and artists hail from across the United States as well as from several other countries.
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Iowa Review
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Jacket Magazine
A popular Australian literary journal founded by John Tranter to showcase lively contemporary poetry and prose.
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Janus Head
An interdisciplinary journal of continental philosophy, art, literature and phemonenological pyschology.
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Jack Books
A communication place for written art or writing about art, aimed at providing a vehicle for published work where the book or the means of presentation, behaving as an active or complementary idea, is part of the meaning of a written artwork.
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Journal of Modern Literature

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Le Monde
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Kenyon Review
One of the most respected literary journals in the U.S.

Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine
The Ledge Magazine is an annual publication of contemporary poetry and fiction. Each issue features a diverse group of contributors of all backgrounds and persuasions.
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Literal Magazine
Latin American voices. The international multi award wining bilingual magazine with a unique international perspective. It publishes from the most established artist to newest voices.
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Literal Latté
A journal of prose, poetry and art. An internet award-winner, based in New York.
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Libération
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Literary Salt
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LitnImage
New art and literature, Fiction , short stories.
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Livresse Magazine
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London Review of Books
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Lorraine and James Global Urban Literature
A literary journal whose mission is to till the urban landscape in search of new writers and give attention to the noncommercial work of established writers from the United States and around the globe. It is their intent that through this process they will act as a conduit though which a writer from anywhere can connect with readers everywhere.
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Lumi Virtuale,
magazine of fantastic literature and science fiction. On the net since February 2000, on paper since April 2004.

Magazines. Newpages.com, Literary Magazines.
The NewPages Guide to the best literary magazines in print and online.
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Mark(s)
Experimental poetry, experimental essays and visual arts. Come back to view new work, revisit the Mark(s) archives or connect to the growing list of links to metro Detroit's online cultural communities.
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Marlborough Review
The Marlboro Review is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, book reviews, translations and has an annual contest, the Marlboro Prize for Poetry.
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Masthead
A literary journal from Australia.
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McSweeney's. Timothy McSweeny
Internet stories, internet literary experiments.
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Michigan Quarterly Review
Fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews, and interviews with distinguished people.
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Missouri Review
Discoverer of previously unknown writers.
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MobyLives
A weekly column about books and writers that appears in newspapers, alternative news weeklies, and on-line journals. It is posted on MobyLives.com on Mondays, the day after it appears in most newspapers. The MobyLives.com news log is updated daily, Monday through Friday.
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Modern Poetry in Translation
The international magazine for the translation of poetry into English.
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Moonset Literary Newspaper
Haiku, Senryu, Haibun, Renku, Tanka, Haiga, and photographic art. Published bi-annually by the Natal light press. 48 Tabloid size pages. Featuring over 250 poets/artists in each issue, and offering over 450 works.
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Mudlark
An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics
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Muse Apprentice Guild
Publishes work by both critically acclaimed authors and aspiring writers.
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