Lit mags
Independent magazines, zines and tabloids with a scene: launch parties, readings and salons. What they publish, where to send your work, and where to find them next.
45 magazines
Magazine · New York, NY
A Public Space
A literary magazine and nonprofit that hosts readings and other magazines' launches.
fiction · poetry · essays · Closes Apr 15, 2027
Magazine · Chicago, IL
Another Chicago Magazine
A Chicago magazine of fiction, poetry and essays with a city-rooted point of view.
fiction · poetry · essays
Magazine · New York, NY
The Baffler
A magazine of essays and satire on politics and culture, with launch nights and talks.
essays · fiction · criticism
Journal · Dublin, Ireland
Banshee
An Irish literary journal that marks each issue with a launch reading.
fiction · poetry · essays · @bansheepress
Magazine · New York, NY
BOMB
A Brooklyn magazine of artist conversations, fiction and poetry, founded in 1981.
interviews · fiction · poetry · art · @bombmag
Journal · New York, NY
The Brooklyn Rail
A free monthly journal of art, writing and politics with regular issue launch parties.
art · criticism · fiction · poetry · @brooklynrail
Magazine · New York, NY
The Drift
A New York magazine of essays, fiction and criticism, known for packed issue launch parties.
essays · fiction · poetry · criticism · @thedrift_mag
Magazine · New York, NY
Electric Literature
A Brooklyn nonprofit publishing fiction and essays online, with events around the Brooklyn Book Festival.
fiction · essays
Zine
Expat Press
An online-first press for transgressive and experimental fiction, with print anthologies.
fiction
Magazine · Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Extra Teeth
A Scottish magazine of fiction, essays and illustration growing a writing scene in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
fiction · essays · art
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
The Fence
A London magazine of satire, essays and literary gossip.
essays · satire · fiction
Magazine · New York, NY
Forever
A small-run literary magazine born from a reading at Hollywood Forever, with issue release parties in New York.
fiction · essays · poetry · @forevermagusa
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
Granta
The London magazine of new writing, launching each issue with readings.
fiction · essays · poetry · @granta_magazine
Magazine · New York, NY
Guernica
An online magazine of global art and politics, publishing since 2004.
essays · fiction · poetry · @guernicamag
Magazine · New York, NY
Hammer & Hope
A magazine of Black politics and culture that co-hosts issue launches in New York.
essays · politics · culture · @readhammerandhope
Magazine · Toronto, ON, Canada
Hazlitt
An online magazine of essays and fiction started by Penguin Random House Canada.
essays · fiction
Journal
Heavy Feather Review
An independent journal of fiction, poetry, comics and hybrid work, in print and online.
fiction · poetry · comics · hybrid · @heavyfeatherrev
Magazine · New York, NY
Heavy Traffic
A design-forward New York fiction magazine with launches in the East Village and London.
fiction · art
Journal
Hobart
A long-running online journal of short fiction, essays and poems with a playful streak.
fiction · essays · poetry
Magazine · Chicago, IL
Hypertext
A Chicago magazine whose studio runs writing workshops in the city.
fiction · essays · poetry
Magazine · New York, NY
Jewish Currents
A magazine of left Jewish politics and culture whose issue launches double as dance parties.
essays · politics · criticism · @jewishcurrentsmag
Magazine
Joyland
A fiction magazine and novella press that publishes stories rooted in place.
fiction · @joylandpublishing
Magazine · Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Kill Your Darlings
A Melbourne magazine of commentary, criticism and new writing that has run a first book club.
essays · criticism · fiction
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
Litro
A London-born magazine of stories, essays and poems, with live readings under Litro Live.
fiction · essays · poetry · @litromedia
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
The London Magazine
London's long-running literary magazine, with competitions and a young writers program.
fiction · poetry · essays · @thelondonmagazine
Magazine · Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Review of Books
An LA nonprofit review with a print quarterly, workshops and the LITLIT festival.
criticism · essays · fiction
Magazine · New York, NY
Lux
A feminist magazine of politics and culture in print three times a year, with launch parties in New York.
essays · criticism · politics · @readlux
Journal · London, United Kingdom
Mal
A London journal of writing on sexuality, gender and the erotic that hosts readings with contributors.
essays · fiction · poetry · @mal_journal
Journal · San Francisco, CA
McSweeney's Quarterly
The San Francisco quarterly that changes its format every issue, with release parties in town.
fiction · humor
Magazine · New York, NY
The Metropolitan Review
A New York literary review launched in 2025 that pays its writers and throws its own parties.
essays · criticism · fiction · @metropolitanreview
Magazine · New York, NY
n+1
A Brooklyn magazine of literature, culture and politics that throws issue parties with other mags.
fiction · essays · criticism · @nplusonemag
Journal · New York, NY
No Tokens
A New York literary journal that launched its issues with readings at Housing Works.
fiction · poetry
Tabloid · Los Angeles, CA
On the Rag
A print tabloid that mixes literary writing, art criticism and gossip, with launch parties in LA and London.
fiction · poetry · criticism · gossip · @ontherag.vip
Magazine · Paris, France
Paris Lit Up
A Paris collective behind a weekly multilingual open mic and an annual magazine.
poetry · fiction · art · @parislitup
Magazine · New York, NY
The Paris Review
The New York quarterly of fiction, poetry and writer interviews, with a spring revel and launch readings.
fiction · poetry · interviews · @parisreview
Magazine · New York, NY
Pigeon Pages
A New York magazine with a long-running monthly reading series.
fiction · poetry · essays · @pigeonpagesnyc
Magazine · Chicago, IL
Poetry
The Chicago poetry monthly founded in 1912, published by the Poetry Foundation, which runs free readings.
poetry · @poetryfoundation
Magazine · Chicago, IL
The Point
A Chicago magazine of philosophical essays about how we live now.
essays · criticism
Journal · Berlin, Germany
SAND
Berlin's English-language literary journal, launching each issue with readings.
fiction · poetry · translation · art · @sandjournalberlin
Magazine · Berlin, Germany
Spike
An art magazine and event space in Berlin and Vienna that launches issues with talks and screenings.
art · criticism · essays · @spike_art_magazine
Magazine · Dublin, Ireland
The Stinging Fly
A Dublin magazine and press for new Irish and international writing, with regular launches.
fiction · poetry · essays · @stingingfly
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
Tank
A London culture magazine whose Great Portland Street space hosts literary launches.
fiction · essays · art
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
The White Review
A London review of fiction, poetry, art and interviews, with prize parties and a summer party.
fiction · poetry · essays · art · @thewhitereview
Magazine · London, United Kingdom
Worms
A women-led London magazine for writers at the edges of the literary world, with launches around town.
fiction · essays · poetry
Journal · San Francisco, CA
ZYZZYVA
A San Francisco journal of West Coast writing and art, with launch nights and a summer dance party.
fiction · poetry · essays · art · @zyzzyvamag
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