Journals Accepting Electronic Submissions

The following is a list of literary journals accepting electronic submissions. Many of these journals use the CLMP submission program, but others have alternative programs or allow email submission.

There's been a noticeable uptick in the number of journals allowing electronic submissions in mid-to-late 2008 and early 2009, and we can hope the trend continues. In fact, I'll go farther: it's not a question of if other literary journals shift to electronic only, but when. Journals will risk seeming either marginal or hopelessly archaic if, five years from now, they still only accept print submissions.

My criteria: I am listing fiction journals (not poetry!), print journals (online journals should accept electronic already) and journals that I consider to be of considerable heft and merit (no one-issue-old journals from backwaterville). Duotrope has a list of journals accepting electronic submissions as well, but it contains hundreds of journals, most of which are unknowns, and also includes all the journals accepting electronic only from submitters outside North America, which confuses things.

The $ sign, of course, means they charge you for submitting online -- which at $2 is cheaper than print submissions, and at $3 is more expensive.

If you know of a literary journal not mentioned here that you think fits in with this list -- and meets all the criteria above -- please add it in the comments section.

• AGNI
• A Public Space
• American Short Fiction $
• Arts and Letters $
• Blackbird
• Black Clock
• Black Warrior Review
• Boston Review
• Boulevard
• Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art
• Colorado Review
• Crazyhorse
• Cream City Review
• Electric Literature
• Fence
• Fiction
• Five Points
• Glimmer Train
• Gulf Stream
• Harvard Review $
• Hayden's Ferry Review
• Hunger Mountain
• Indiana Review
• Iron Horse Literary Review
• Kenyon Review
• McSweeneys Quarterly
• Meridian $
• Massachusetts Review $
• Mid-American Review
• Missouri Review $
• New England Review $
• New Ohio Review
• Ninth Letter
• North American Review
• One Story
• Ploughshares $
• Portland Review
• Potomac Review
• Quarterly West
• Redivider
• River Teeth
• Sonora Review $
• Southeast Review
• Southwest Review $
• StoryQuarterly
• Sycamore Review
• Third Coast
• Tin House
• Virginia Quarterly Review
• West Branch
• Willow Springs
• Witness

Comments

[Wayne C. Long]

Hello!

Please add the electronic adult short story magazine LongShortStories to your list. As of January, 2009, we are looking for the best original, unpublished adult short fiction out there. We are hosting TWO LongShortStories Short Story Contests per year and are offering cash prizes for First, Second, and Third-place winners.

Please feel free to link us to your Web site and to become a subscriber as well.

Thank you,

Wayne C. Long
Writer/Editor/Internet Publisher
www.LongShortStories.com

[John Fox]

Sorry, but as stated above, this is only for print journals.

[fjfjdvdv]

Great list.

Southwest Review's submission guidelines now state that they charge $2 for online subs. I just submitted, though, and they didn't ask for any money.

Not sure what to think about this...

[BookFox]

Southwest just started charging money, and so did American Short Fiction. I'm guessing they received an enormous influx of submissions and decided to try to limit it by charging money.

It might be wise for them, however, to adopt the technique of VQR and others, who simply limit submissions to twice a reading period.

But good for you that you got in just beforehand!

[ad]

Bateau accepts electronic submissions.

www.bateaupress.org

[Brent]

Hey BookFox,

Here are some I've run across:

Hobart (print and online versions, like McSweeney's)
The New Yorker (haha?)
Baltimore Review
Boston Review
Puerto del Sol
Potomac Review
Literary Review
Willow Springs
Fairy Tale Review
Post Road
Barn Owl Review
Opium (print and online versions)
Matrix (Canadian)

[BookFox]

Thanks Brent. I've added a few of those. Perhaps if I widen the pool a bit in the future, I'll include a few more.

[Sarah Wells]

Thanks for posting River Teeth here - we've received 26 click-thrus from your site. Much appreciated!

[Abbas Goudarzi]

hi,
Much thanks for your literary activities,I wonder if you may also let us know of the rank of the journals, if they are ISI or not.

[Straylight]

Hello. Straylight is both a print and an online journal. We do not charge money for submissions, either online or snail mail. If you think we meet your criteria (we think we do!) then please add us.

[Bill Will]

NOTHE seems to have high ambitions:

http://nothe.weebly.com/

[Jonathan]

Ruminate: Faith in Literature and Art accepts electronic submissions and meets all the requirements.

http://www.ruminatemagazine.org/

[Deborah Lisoway]

There are a few Canadian print journals, which publish fiction, that should meet the qualifications:

Queen's Quarterly: http://www.queensu.ca/quarterly/correspondencesubmissions.html

The Associative Press:
http://www.theassociativepress.com/The_Associative_Press/Submit.html

Matrix Magazine:
http://www.matrixmagazine.org/submissions/

[Elizabeth McCulloch]

American Short Fiction and Threepenny Review both accept electronic submissions now.

[BookFox]

American Short Fiction is on here already, and Threepenny Review says online submissions are forthcoming, so I'm not adding either.

[Mike]

Gulf Stream is no longer a print magazine, only online...

[Miriam Johnson]

Hi, I'd like to mention a new literary journal, The Istanbul Review. (www.theistanbulreview.com) It will create a platform for dialogue between authors, new and established, and readers. It gives writers an opportunity to talk about their craft, showcase new work and discuss the philosophical implications of literature and its place in modern society. The first issue has contributions from Paulo Coelho, Elif Shafak, and Ludmilla Petrushevkaya.

They are publishing the first issue in Nov. 2011. They have an open call for submission still July, 1st 2011.

[J Goolsby]

War, Literature & the Arts also accepts electronic submissions. Publishes the likes of Brian Turner, John Balaban, Paul West, and new voices. Check it out here: www.wlajoural.com

[JR]

Sweet list man, so helpful.

FYI, here's a list of places I've submitted to electronically in the past three months (some might not be big enough for the list):

Annalemma
The Ante Review
Ascent
The Chaffey Review
Grasslimb
Lamplighter Review
Threepenny Review

[Joseph Cavano]

Any suggestions for literary magazines that use talented writer's as first readers,and not interns with the ubiquitous MFA and adolescent interests?

[BookFox]

Hi Joseph,

That's a good question. Virtually every big magazine I know uses MFA students to cull the slush pile. Most of the time you have to fight through those odds to get to the editor. As for exceptions . . . Maybe Boulevard, Electric Literature, Storyglossia, and ZYZZYVA.

But those are just my guesses based upon how editors have responded to me.

[Kristen D. Scott]

Please add my new journal, Knot Magazine, to your list, our first issue will debut SPRING 2012 www.middleeasternliteraturejournal.com

Kristen D. Scott
Editor/Publisher/Designer

[James]

Just went to Boulevard website and they are now charging $3 to submit electronically, unless you subscribe to the magazine.