If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard I’m on a quest to get some short literary translations from public domain sources published. Over the past couple of years, I focused on translating pieces by women, feminists, LGBT writers, or otherwise marginalized writers in the course of learning how to translate. Translations which weren’t fit for journals are up on this site, some are already published, and some aren’t online (because they’re copyrighted, etc.). From here on, I don’t plan to translate any more pre-1965 works and will move on to contemporary novel-length works, but I’d like to find homes for 15 leftover pieces in various genres which seem like a good fit for literary journals.
I put together this list of translation-friendly magazines to help me know where to submit and when. It only constitutes a fraction of the journals out there, and I’ll add to it as and when I find new places worth submitting to. Those which are no longer in operation, don’t allow simultaneous submissions, put pieces behind paywalls, or have onerous submission or rights conditions are crossed out.
I encourage anyone beginning in literary translation to submit to places far and wide (so long as you read pieces from each journal first, to gauge their tone). Being able to point to past publishing credits makes it easier to apply for translation jobs, and to approach publishers and authors to ask to translate works. Hopefully this list may be of some use to fellow beginning translators on the submission trail.
3:AM Magazine – Fiction 2500w.
3Elements Review – Proposes three themes and works must address all of them. Fiction 3500.
4am Poetry Review – Dead.
4squarereview – Reviews of poetry books.
A-Minor – Flash and short fiction 4000w.
A VELVET GIANT – Genreless works. Especially interested in works by women and marginalized writers.
A&U Magazine – Short pieces relating to the AIDs pandemic.
Account
Acentos Review – Open to Latinx creators only.
Across the Margin – Flash and short fiction. May publish works over 5000w in serial form.
Adanna Literary Journal – Prose 2000w. Open January 2020.
Adelaide – Translations 5000w.
Adroit Journal – Prose 3000w.
Aerodrome – Dead since 2019.
After Happy Hour Review – Fiction 6000w.
After the Art – Personal essays regarding ways of looking at art.
Afterall – Essays/articles on contemporary art only.
Agenda – Poetry only.
AGNI – No word limit.
Airgonaut – Fiction 500-2500w. Needs strong narrative.
Allegro Poetry Magazine
Always Crashing – Like experimental fiction.
Alternative Current – Prose 3000w.
American Journal of Poetry – Poetry only. $5 submission fee.
American Literary Review – Fiction 8000w.
American Short Fiction – Fiction 2000w.
Anastmos – Fiction 5000w. Themed, present theme is “boundary”.
Anatolios Magazine – Prose 10,000w.
ANMLY/Anomaly – Themed by genre. Currently seeking regular contributors or folios only.
Angel City Review – Prose 6000w.
Angry Old Man Magazine – Open to experimental forms.
Another Chicago Magazine – Online.
Antigonish Review – Hard copy only. Fiction 500-3000w.
Aperçus – Poetry and essays “through literature lens.
Anti-heroin Chic – Dead since 2019.
Antic – Nonfiction/criticism and art only.
Antioch Review – Fiction 5000w.
Apogee – Marginalized voices. Prose 5000w.
Aquifer (The Florida Review online)
Arc Poetry – 360 line, 3 poem limit. Submissions open June.
Arcadia
Arcturus – Prose 7000w.
Arkansas Review – Mississippi writers or work relating to Mississippi region only.
Arsonist – No issue since 2017, presumed dead.
Arts & Letters – Essays and short opinion pieces on literature and linguistics.
Asheville Poetry Review
Asia Literary Review – Prose 3,600-8000w.
Asia Writes – Dead.
Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus – Online. Academic.
Asian Cha – Fiction 5000w.
Assay
Asteri(x) – Online. Missed an issue, maybe dead.
Asymptote – Fiction 5000w.
Atlas and Alice – Fiction 4000w.
Atticus Review – Flash and fiction 4000w.
Automata Review – Fiction 6000w.
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
Avatar Review – Prose 1200w.
Axon – Essays and analyses of poetry.
AZURE – Fiction 50 pages.
bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects
Bandit Fiction
Barrelhouse – Fiction 8000w.
Bat City Review – Fiction 5000w.
Bear Review – Poetry and flash 500w.
Bellevue Literary Review
Bellingham Review – Open September 15. Prose 5000w.
Beloit Fiction Journal – Fiction 50 pages.
Belt Magazine – Personal essays/reporting re. Midwest and rust belt.
Bennington Review – Fiction 30 pages.
Better Magazine
Beyond the Block – Only accept writing from incarcerated persons.
BFS Horizons
Big Echo – SF 4000w.
Big Other – Fiction 6000w.
Bitter Oleander – Fiction 2500w.
Black Candies – Horror. No issue since 2017, maybe dead.
Black Fox – Fiction 5000w.
Black Herald – Bilingual Eng/French.
Black Heart – Fiction 2500w.
Black Sun Lit – Prose 5000w.
Black Warrior Review / BWR – Translation limit 10 pages. Fiction 7000w.
Blackbird – Fiction 8000w.
Blast Furnace – Poetry only. Themed, current theme is “chrome, rust & steel”.
Blue Earth Review – Fiction 15 pages.
Blue Fifth Review – Online. Poetry and flash 1000w. Currently on hiatus.
Blue Mesa – Fiction 6000w.
Bluestem – Prose 5000w.
BLYNKT – Dead since 2017.
BOAAT – Poetry only.
BOMB – Nonfiction essays/interviews about contemporary art.
Bomb Cyclone – Translation 6000w. Open August 15.
Bone Bouquet – Open to female and nonbinary poets only. Open January 2020.
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review – Poetry and essays. Open September 15.
Boston Accent – Fiction 7000w.
Boulevard – Fiction 8000w.
Boxcar Poetry Review – 3-5 poems. Seem to have missed an issue, are behind schedule.
Brain drip – Fiction 8000w. Australian writers only.
Breakwater Review – Fiction 5000w.
Brevity – Essays 750w. Open September.
Briar Cliff Review – Fiction 5000w.
Briars Lit – Queer stories only.
Brittle Star – Fiction 2000w. Hard copy submissions only.
Broadsided Press – Poems 25 lines and prose 300w.
Brooklyn Rail – Fiction 20 pages.
Brown Orient – Open to women and LGBTQIA+ writers and artists from local or diasporic South Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia (or Middle East), and Central Asia only.
Buddy – Fiction 6 pages.
Burning House Press Online – Themed. Last theme was “hex”.
Cabildo Quarterly – Fiction 2500w.
Café Review – Poetry only. Hard copy submissions only.
CALAMITY – Poetry only.
Callaloo – Creative work by and critical studies of the work of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the African Diaspora.
Call Me [Brackets] – Fiction 4000w.
Calyx – Prose 5000w. Women authors only.
Canadian Literature – No simultaneous submissions.
The Capra Review – Fiction 5000w, but will read longer.
The Cardiff Review – Flash 500w, fiction 1500-5000w. Prefer works by current students.
Carolina Quarterly – Fiction 7500w.
carte blanche – Only translations from French.
Cartridge Lit – Flash or fiction 2500w. Theme is “video games”.
Carve Magazine – Fictio 10,000w.
Catapult – Fiction 6000w.
Cave Wall – Poetry only. Open September.
Cease, Cows
Cerise Press – Did translations. Dead since 2013.
Chandrabhaga – Dead since 2004.
Cherry Tree – Broadly themed. Fiction 25 pages.
Chattahoochee Review – Fiction 6000w.
Chicago Quarterly Review – Fiction 5000w.
Chronically Lit – Fiction 3000w. Theme is “chronic illness”.
Cigar City Poetry Journal – Translations Spanish<>English. Open to writers residing in the Americas only.
Clade Song – Poetry only. Theme is how animal ecology impacts and integrates with humanity.
Cleaver Magazine – Fiction 4000w.
Cliterature – Themed, last theme was “hair”. Everything 10 pages.
Cloud Rodeo – Avant garde, post-genre. Irregular schedule.
Coal Hill Review – Fiction 2500w.
Colere
Collision – Poetry and creative nonfiction only. Open late August.
Colorado Review Fiction 25 pages.
Columbia Journal – Fiction 5000w.
Communion Arts Journal – Fiction 1500w, memoir/essays 500w+.
Comstock Review – Poetry only. US$12 to submit.
Concho River Review – Fiction 1500 to 5000w.
concresence – Brisbane. New. Fiction 3000w.
The Conium Review – Fiction only, 15,000w. Open September.
Connotation Press – Will be offline, on hiatus September 2019-September 2020.
Consequence – Fiction 5000w. Theme is “the culture of war”.
The Continental Review – Video poetry only.
Contra Viento – Fiction 5000w. Pieces that explore temporal, spatial, and interspecial boundaries.
Construction
Copper Nickel – Open September.
Corium Magazine – Fiction 1000-3000w. No issue since 2017, maybe dead.
Cortland Review – Poetry only. Open September.
Cosmonauts Avenue – Fiction 500-10,000w. Average is ~2000w.
Cotton Xenomorph – Flash and fiction 1500w.
COUNTERCLOCK – Prose 6000w.
Crab Fat Magazine – Prose 3000w.
Crab Orchard Review – Indefinite hiatus due to editor’s health issues.
Crack the Spine – Fiction 1000 to 5000w, flash 1000w.
CRAFT – Flash and fiction 6000w. Theme is “the craft of writing”.
CRAG – Flash only up to 1000w.
Crannog – Fiction 2000w. Open in November.
Cream City Review – Fiction 20 pages.
Creative Nonfiction – Themed. Last theme was “power”.
Critical Flame – Critical essays only.
ctrl+v – Video/sound poetry and images only.
Cumberland River Review – Fiction 5000w. Open September.
Curator – Theme is “cultural artifacts and how we engage with them”. Flash and fiction.
Cutthroat – Only open to writers of minority backgrounds (different minority per issue).
Dash
Dead Alive Magazine – Electronic and experimental art.
December – No simultaneous submissions.
Decentre – Fiction 3000-5000w. Contributors commit to reading for future issues.
decomP Magazine – Flash and fiction 4000w.
Defunct Magazine
Deluge – Online. Prose 1500w.
Demos – Canberra. Themed. Fiction 800-2000w. Poetry 100 lines.
Denver Quarterly – Open October.
deracine – Gothic, dark, psychological. Fiction 8000w.
The Destroyer – Prose 15 pages. Site is hard to read.
Devil’s Lake
Diode – Poetry only.
The Dinner Gathering – Fiction 2500w. Loose theme of food/kitchen.
Dislocate
Dissident Voice – Articles on justice and peace only.
Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review – Fiction 8000w.
Doubleback Review – Only for works previously published in now-defunct journals.
drDoctor – Essays on an artist’s work only.
Dream Catcher
Dream Pop – Experimental, non-narrative. Prose 6 pages.
Dreginald – Prose 3000w.
Driftwood – Fiction 4000w. It seems authors are also interviewed about their work(?).
Duende – Prose 7500w. Open September.
Earth Island – Must relate to environmental issues.
Eastern Iowa Review – Fiction 2000w. Open September.
Eclectica – Fiction 20,000w.
EcoTheo Review
Ecotone
Edgz
ELKE “A Little Journal” – Fiction 2000w.
elsewhere – Prose up to 1000w.
Empty House Press – Prose up to 1000w. Broad theme is the feeling an empty house evokes.
Encyclopedia Destructica – Site down, presumed dead.
Epigraph – Up to 6 poems.
Essay Press
Exchanges – University of Iowa.
Exhume Magazine – Prose 3500w. Broad theme is “trauma”.
Eyebag – Creative nonfiction 800w.
Fairy Tale Review – Prose 8000w. Broad theme is “abstract approach to fairy tales”.
Fantastic Floridas – Fiction 5000w. Must pertain somehow to Florida.
Femagogyzine – By and for educators/teachers. Women writers preferred.
Feral Feminisms – Contemporary. Creative academic.
Fiction Pool
The Fictional Café – Fiction 3500w. Must be member to submit.
Figure 1 – Poetry only.
Five Chapters – Site down, presumed dead.
Five on the Fifth
Fjord’s Review – Fiction 6000w.
FlashBack Fiction
FlashFlood – Fiction 500w. Closed until 2020.
Foglifter – Open to queer writers only.
Foliate Oak – Fiction 2700w.
Foothill – Poetry by people currently enrolled in grad programs only.
For the Sonorous – Prose 3000w.
Forge – 3000w, flash preferred.
formercactus
Forth
Foundry – Online. Poetry which is experimental and narrative.
Four Chambers – Site down, on indefinite hiatus.
Fourth Genre – Fiction 8000w. Open September.
Fourth River – Broad theme is “relationship between people and place”.
Free State Review – Prose 4000w.
Freeze Frame – Online. Experimental shorts or discrete stories 1000w.
Freight Stories – Contemporary stories only. Up to 40 pages. Submittable link broken.
Frontier Poetry – Poetry only.
Fugue
Full Stop – Reviews/interviews/essays on books published by small presses only.
Gargouille – Fiction 10000w.
Gargoyle
GASHER Journal – Fiction 3000w.
Gertrude – LGBT writers only.
Ghost City Review
Ghost Parachute – Prose 1000w.
Ghost Proposal – Post-genre.
Gimmick Press – Pieces 1500-3000w for anthology of new creative nonfiction about pop culture obsessions.
Glass Poetry – 3-5 poems, should be “cutting”.
GlitterMOB – Narrative poetry only.
Gloom Cupboard – Fiction 2500w.
Going Down Swinging – Fiction 2000w.
The Good Men Project – Stories/articles related to masculinity only. First time submitters 1200w.
Goodnight, Sweet Prince – Fiction related to “side characters”. Must query first.
grama – Prose 3000w. Must relate to “the west” (i.e. of the USA).
Granta – Fiction 3000-6000w.
Graviton – Poetry and art only. Broad theme is “science”.
great weather for MEDIA – Open October 15.
Green Mountains Review – Open June 15.
Greensboro Review – Fiction 7500w. Open November 15.
Griffith Review – Focus on Australia. Themed. Only 20 short stories per year.
Grimoire Magazine – Fiction 4000w.
Grist – Fiction 4000w.
Gulf Coast – Open September 1.
Gulf Stream – Open September 1.
Gull
Half Mystic Radio – Prose 3000w. Broad theme is “music”.
Harpur Palate
Harriet: The Blog – Some prose and poetry, mostly reviews and essays on poetry.
Hawai’i Pacific Review – Fiction 4000w. Open December.
Hayden’s Ferry Review – Fiction 25 pages. Themed.
HEAT – Dead since 2018.
Heavy Feather Review – Currently accepting submissions for themed online sections only (Bad Survivalist, Haunted Passages, & #NoMorePresidents).
Hedgehog Poetry – On hiatus.
Helen – Pieces must relate somehow to Southern Nevada.
Hinchas de Poesía – Contemporary pieces by writers from the Americas only.
Hobart – Fiction 2000w.
Hobo Camp Review
Homonym Journal – Text 2000w. Must relate to consideration of language or multilingualism.
HOOT Review – Prose less than 150w.
Hopkins Review – Fiction 8000w. Open October.
Horny Poetry Review – Exploratory love poetry only.
Hot Metal Bridge – Open September.
Hotel Amerika – No issue since 2016, maybe dead. Apparently open September.
Hudson Review – Prose 10,000w. No simultaneous submissions.
Huizache – No issue since 2016, maybe dead.
The Hunger – Fiction 4000w. Theme is “hunger”.
Hyperallergic – Poetry and essays/opinion/reviews/interviews only. The latter must be queried first.
Hyphen – Asian American focus.
Hypnopomp – Fiction 2000w.
Identity Theory – Fiction 4000w.
IDK – Fiction 2500w. Open June.
Image
Indiana Review – Fiction 8000w.
Indianapolis Review – Poetry and visual poetry only.
indicia – Poetry and flash fiction only.
Instant Lit Magazine
Iron Horse Literary Review – Oct/Nov window for prose 40 pages.
Island Review – Fiction 3000w.
J Journal
Jabberwock – Open August 15.
Jacket2 – Only accepts unsolicited queries in January.
Jaded Ibis Press – Cross-genre pieces only, must include statement from the author on how they’ve come to understand their art.
Jai Alai – Fiction 750w, nonfiction 1000w.
Jellyfish Review – Prose 1000w.
joint – Fiction 5000w. Black writers only with preference given to women.
Josephine Quarterly – Poetry and art only.
Journal Magazine – Fiction 10000w.
Journal Petra – Poetry and experimental short fiction. Has missed an issue, not sure if still going.
Joyland – Fiction 1200-10,000w. Writers must be connected to a region of the USA.
Jubilat – Online. Open January to April.
Juked – 2500w for print, no word limit for online.
Kalahari Review – Avant-garde works pertaining to Africa.
Kartika Review – Creative writing from Asian Pacific Islander American perspectives only.
Kenyon Review – Open September 15 to October 1.
Keyhole – Site down but still on Submittable, maybe dead.
Kill Your Darlings – Policy used to be must be a subscriber to submit, unclear if this is still the case.
Kissing Dynamite – Poetry only.
Kitaab – Works relating to Asia only. Works 7000w.
L’Éphémère Review – Prose 5000w.
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet – Hard copy submissions only.
Lake Effect – Hard copy submissions only.
Lammergeier – Prose 5000w.
Lampeter Review
Lapsus Lima – Essays re. “time” with an academic flavor.
Laurel Magazine – Prose 4000w.
Lavender Review – Online. Lesbian poetry and art.
Leopardskin & Limes – Prose 3000w.
LEVELER – One poem only. No simultaneous submissions.
Lifted Brow/TLB – Fiction 2000-4000w. Open to Australians only.
Lilliput Review – Three poems, all 10 lines or less.
Little Magazine – Fiction 25,000w.
Lily Poetry Review – Poetry and flash fiction.
Linden Avenue Literary Journal – Fiction 2500w.
LIT – Prose 25 pages.
Lit Up – Not updated since 2014, presumed dead.
Literally Stories – Online. Fiction 3000w. Site layout makes text hard to read.
Literary Hatchet – Fiction 500-6000w. Theme is “dark”/horror.
Litro – London. Themed. Fiction, prefer 4000w. Flash 800w.
littletell – Prose 1000w.
Lock Raven Review – Fiction 3500w.
London Magazine – Fiction 4000w.
Long Long Journal – Short poetry and short experimental prose only.
Los Angeles Review – Translated prose 5 pages.
LossLit
Lost Balloon – Prose 1000w. Open September.
Louisville Review – Prose 4000w.
Luna Station Quarterly – Spec fiction written by women only.
Lunch Ticket – Fiction 5000w. Open September.
M-Dash – Online. Short experimental translation or essays on translation.
make/shift – Dead as of 2017.
Malevolent Soap – Dead since 2019.
Manifest Station – Themed. Site down, presumed dead.
The Mantle – Poetry only.
many gendered mothers – Essays by women writers on women writers who’ve inspired them.
Many Mountains Moving
Marauder Literary Journal – Fiction 2000w, flash 500w.
The Margins – Asian-American writers only.
MARY – Began 2017. Fiction 15 pages.
Mascara – Only open to Asian Australian writers.
Masque & Spectacle – Prose 8000w.
Massachusetts Review – Open October.
Matter Monthly – Political poetry and commentary only.
Maudlin House – Stream of consciousness-type experimental prose.
MAYDAY Magazine – Milwaukee, WI. Missed issues, may be dead.
Meanjin – Only open to Australian writers.
Memoir Mixtapes – Theme is “music”.
Menacing Hedge – Fiction 3000w.
Meniscus – Prose 3000w.
The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review – Plays only.
Meshes Journal – Seems to be nothing but a cover page dated June 2018. Maybe dead.
Metaphorosis – Spec fiction only.
Metatron – #MicroMeta – Contemporary works by emerging authors only.
Michigan Quarterly Review – Fiction 1500-5000w.
Mid-American Review – Fiction 6000w.
Midwestern Gothic – People with a connection to the Midwest only.
Minarets – Prose 10 pages.
Minnesota Review – Fiction 5000w. Open August.
Minola Review – Experimental prose by women only.
Minor Literatures – Open January.
Miracle Monocle – Fiction 10000w.
Mississippi Review – No unsolicited work except via contest, i.e. no simultaneous submissions.
Missouri Review – Fiction 2000-9000w.
Mizna – Prose and poetry related to Arab America only.
Mohave River Review – Online. Poetry, prose, flash. Focus on desert/southwest and animals.
Moko – Fiction 3000w. Carribean writers or works only.
Monkeybicycle – Fiction 2000w.
Moon City Review – Fiction 8000w.
Moon Park Review – Prose 750w.
Moonchild Magazine – Poetry in translation.
Mount Island – Open September.
Mud Season Review – No translations. Open August.
the museum of americana – Must relate to American history.
Muzzle – Poetry only.
n+1 – Living author only.
Nailed – Focus on marginalized voices, suffering. Fiction 4000w.
Narrative – $26 to submit, except for first two weeks of April. Fiction of all lengths.
Nebraska Review – Dead since 2018.
Nervous Ghost Press — Writing for Life Anthology – Fiction 7500w. No translations.
New Contrast – Prose 5000w. Should relate to Africa.
New Delta Review – Fiction around 3000w. Open September.
New England Review – Fiction 20000w. Open September.
New Flash Fiction Review – Fiction 950w.
New Inquiry – Essays only. Themed. Last theme was ‘bad vibes’.
New Letters – Prose 5000w. Open August.
New Madrid Journal – Dead since 2018.
New Ohio Review – Open September 15.
New Orleans Review – Fiction 5000w.
new sinews – Fantasy/spec and “historically keen” preferred.
New South – Dead since 2017.
New Yinzer – Nothing since 2015, presumed dead.
Newest York – Open to New York artists and authors only.
Newfound – Fiction of any length.
NightBlock – Fiction 6 pages.
Nimrod – Prose 7500w. Themed. Current theme is “words on play”.
Ninth Letter – Fiction 8000w. Online 3500w, themed. Last theme was “Origins”. Open September.
NonBinary Review – Themed. Current theme is “The Odyssey by Homer”.
Normal School – Fiction 7000w. Open September.
Not Very Quiet – Poetry or prose 300w by women only. Themed. Current theme is “earth/relation to ecosystems”.
Notre Dame Review – Modernist. Open September.
North American Review – Focus on politics. Contemporary. Open September.
Nottingham Review – Fiction 3000w.
Now Culture – Experimental forms (e.g. interactive) only.
Object Lessons – Also The Atlantic
Occulum – Fiction 2000w. On hiatus.
Ocotillo Review – Open August 15
Oklahoma Review – Nothing since 2016.
One Story – Fiction 3000-8000w. Open 3 September.
Ontario Review – Dead since 2008.
Open Letters Monthly – Dead since 2017.
Open Road Review – Has published infrequently since 2016.
Open Thread – Open to western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and northern West Virginia writers.
The Operating System – Nonfiction, on the writing process. Eclectic.
Ophelia Street – Site down, presumed dead.
Opossum – Dead.
Orca: A Literary Journal – Fiction 8000w.
Orion – Focus on environment. Fiction 6000w.
Orson’s Review – Fiction 5000w.
Other Journal – Must relate to theology/faith.
Other Terrain – Fiction 3000w. Themed. Current theme is ‘we too’.
Out of Print – Fiction 1000-4000w.
OUT/CAST – Site down, presumed dead.
Overland – Focus on Australia. Print only 20 fiction per year.
Pacific Review – Fiction 2500w.
Pacifica Literary Review – Fiction 5000w.
Paddock Review – Online. Poetry only.
Page – Links to poems in journals, i.e. review site.
PAJ – Journal of Performance and Art only.
Painted Bride Quarterly – Fiction 5000w.
Paragraphiti
Parallax
Paris Review – New York. Hard copy submissions only.
Passager
Passages North – Northern Michigan Uni. Nonfiction and flash.
Paterson Literary Review
Peacock – Online. Fiction 500-2000w.
Pedestrian
Pencilled In – Themed. Current theme is ‘food’.
Pennsylvania Review
Perigee
Peril – Themed. Current theme is ‘man up’. Must relate to issues of Asian Australian interest.
phoebe – prose 4000w.
Philosophical Idiot
Pinch – Fiction 5000w.
Pinwheel
Pith
Pithead Chapel
Pleiades – Central Missouri Uni. Fiction 12000w. Only open July and December.
Plentitude – Open to LGBT writers only.
Ploughshares – Fiction 6000w.
Plume – Poetry only
Poet Lore
Poetry International – Blind reading. $15 sub fee.
Poetry Superhighway
The Point
Ponder Review
Post Road
Potluck Magazine
Prairie Margins – Fiction 6000w. Print only.
Prairie Schooner
Printers Row
Prism International – Contemporary only.
Prufrock
PseudoPod
Quadrant – Right wing. Being published here resulted in ban from appearing in Overland, etc.
Quarter After Eight – Open October 15.
Quarterly Conversation – Essays on literature only. 5000w.
Quarterly West – Fiction 5000w. Open September.
Queen Mob’s Teahouse – Post-genre flash 1000w.
Quiddity – Open August.
Quiet Storm – Fiction 3000w.
Really Serious Literature
Reckoning – Focus on environmental justice.
Reunion: The Dallas Review – Texas Uni. Translated prose 3000w.
Review of Japanese Culture and Society
Revue – Flash 500w.
RFD – Gay writers and content.
RHINO – Poetry only.
Riggwelter Press
Right Now – Must relate to human rights issues and justice in Australia.
River Teeth
riverSedge – Multiple subs okay.
Roanoke Review
Room – Women only. Fiction 3500w.
Rust + Moth
Sakura Review – Fiction 2500w.
Saltern Magazine
San Diego Poetry Annual – Writer must have an association with San Diego.
Sand – Berlin.
Santa Ana River Review
Santa Monica Review
Scalawag
Seneca Review
Shanghai Literary Review
Shearsman – Poetry only. Print only.
Shenandoah – Fiction 8000w.
Shotgun Honey – Crime/thriller short fiction and flash.
Show Your Skin
Silk Road Review – Focus on diversity, immigration, and cross-cultural slice of life.
Silver Needle Press
Sinister Wisdom – Lesbian literature.
Sinking City Review
Sixth Tone
Slice – Themed. Fiction 5000w. Current theme is ‘persistence’.
Small Portions – Themed. Current theme is neurodiversity and disability. Fiction 1000w.
Smart Set
Smartish Pace – Poetry only.
SOFT CARTEL
Sonora Review – Prose 5000w.
South Loop Review
Southampton Review – Fiction 7500w.
The Southern Review
Southern Indiana Review
Southerly – Only accepts Australian and NZ writers. Fiction 2000-8000w.
Southern Humanities – Fiction 8000w.
Southern Review – Louisiana State Uni. Fiction 8000w.
Specter
Speculative 66
Spelk
Spillway
Split Lip – Fiction 2500w.
Stanzas
Stirring: A Literary Collection
Storgy – Fiction 5000w. $10 sub fee.
Storm Cellar – Fiction 5000w.
Storm of Blue – Mixed media prose and art, submissions 15 pages.
Story – No word limit.
Stray Branch
Strix
Structo – Fiction 3000w.
StylusLit – Fiction 5000w.
Sweet
Sword & Kettle Press (chapbooks)
Taos Journal of Poetry and Art – Poetry and essays only.
Terrain.org
Territory
Thieves Jargon
Thin Air
Thread
Three Drops from a Cauldron
Three Rivers Review
Threepenny Review – Fiction 4000w.
Tidal Echoes
Timber Journal – Fiction 4000w. Themed. Last theme was ‘dehumanisation’.
Tin House – Dead as of Aug 2019.
Tincture Journal – Dead since 2017.
Tinderbox – Poetry only.
Tiny Donkey
TL:DR
Triple Canopy – Experimental format-melding.
TriQuarterly – Fiction 5000w.
Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics – Only analyses and interpretive translation.
TSS / The Short Story
Tweed’s
Two Lines Journal – Translations only. Contemporary. Fiction 2000-5000w.
Typehouse
U.S. – Japan’s Women’s Journal
Under the Gum Tree – Creative non-fiction. Multiple themes. Contemporary.
Union Station Magazine
Unlikely Stories
Up The Staircase Quarterly — Harrow
Utterance — The Fashion Issue Contest
Van Gogh’s Ear – Online. Prose 1500w.
Verse – Online. Poetry only.
Vinyl – Prose 15 pages. Open in fall.
Virginia Quarterly Review
Visions International – Poetry only. No simultaneous subs, but respond quickly.
VQR / Virginia Quarterly Review – Fiction 2000-8000w. Pays $1000 for fiction.
Vulture Bones
Waccamaw – Open August.
Wag’s Review
Walrus
War, Literature and the Arts – Relating to war and the military.
Washington Square Review – Open August.
Water~Stone Review
Waxwing – Poetry and prose. Focus on translation.
Welcome Table Press
West Branch
Westerly – Fiction 3500w.
Western Humanities Review – Prose 25 pages.
Whale Road Review – Poetry and prose 500w. Open June and December only.
where is the river :: a poetry experiment
Whistling Shade – Fiction 10000w.
Wild Women’s Medicine Circle
Wildheart
wildness – Fiction 2500w.
Willow Springs – Poetry and prose.
Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art – Fiction 5000w. Online fiction 2500w.
Winter Tangerine – Online. Poetry and prose.
Witness
World Literature Today – Online. Fiction 2500w.
Writers Chronicle
Writing on the Edge – Interviews and analysis on writing.
X-R-A-Y
Yalobusha Review – Fiction 5000w. Open September.
Yellow Arrow Journal
ZARF Poetry – Poetry only. 3 pages.
Zeotrope: All-Story – Cinematic storytelling.
ZiN Daily – Fiction 4000w.
Zone 3 – Open August.
Links to more comprehensive lists of literary journals
https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines
https://dlshirey.com/the-short-list/
https://www.rejectionwiki.com/index.php?title=Literary_Journals_and_Rejections
https://www.newpages.com/magazines/big-list-of-lit-mags
https://www.everywritersresource.com/top50literarymagazines/
http://www.thereviewreview.net/magazines
Collections of short Japanese literature in translation
Japan Pen Club, digital library of 30 or so translated short stories
Japanese Text Initiative, an Aozora-type archive
Nihon Distractions, links to translated short stories
Translation info, articles, and organizations
Free Word, British translation organisation
Literature Across Frontiers, articles on translation
PAJ
Translations from Japanese 