Online Publications

Unfettered Verse
monthly poetry journal

unFold
unFold, the successor to Form.Reborn on Folded Word, is a “PG-ish” experimental poetry journal published on Twitter. It originally sought 140 character (including spaces) poetic Tweets suitable for mobile poem text messages and encouraged poets to improvise solutions to Twitter’s inhospitability to traditional line breaks.

Unfortunately Literary Magazine
We are a literary magazine. Unfortunately.

Union Station Magazine
Designed off the image of a train station with many tracks extending outward, Union Station has a distinct urban aesthetic. We seek to be inclusive, to put into relation the many narratives, images, and voices that are redefining our landscape. –Come here. Go Everywhere.

Unique Poetry
Publishing poetry for established and emerging writers. We aim to be trendy, stunning, challenging, and defiantly weird at times. The editors are both fanatics of poetry modern and discarded, with many years of writing experience.

University of Maine Farmington
The Sandy is published twice a year in the Fall and Spring semesters in the offices of Alice James Books on the UMF campus.Each issue has an Editor and an Assistant Editor who steps into the role of Editor for the next issue.

Unlikely Stories: A Collection of Literary Art
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Unlost Journal
A Journal of Found Poetry

Unrorean, the
Begun in 2001 as a poetry broadsheet that would serve as the aler-ego to the Aurorean, the Unrorean has published some of the most recognized poets in the small press as well as new and upcoming poets. In 2016 the Unrorean transitioned from print publication to digital online publication and is now free and available to the widest audience possible.

Up The River
Up The River is a journal of poetry, art & photography by Albany Poets Press celebrating the best in the arts from around the world. Edited by Mary Panza, Carissa Haberland, and Kevin Peterson, Up The River wishes to showcase original work from both new and established poets, artists and photographers.

Up the Staircase Quarterly
Established in March 2008, Up the Staircase Quarterly is an online journal of poetry, art, interviews, and reviews. New issues are published every February, May, August, and November, unless otherwise stated. UtSQ nominates for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets.

Uppagus
Uppagus is your childhood friend that adults never meet. They think he’s imaginary, but you know better. Adults fear the psychological damage they’ll cause by disbelieving you. So one day, they all start pretending to see him too.

Urban Fantasist
Urban Fantasist is curated by Charles Christian to bring you a mix of new, free-to-read, sci-fi and fantasy poetry and flash fiction in the Grievous Angel webzine

Used Furniture Review
Used Furniture Review is an online literary magazine founded in November 2010. We are interested in all genres of writing, art and music; we are also interested in running interviews with authors and musicians, as well as chapbook or book reviews. We accept submissions on a rolling basis and update our site three days each week, so check back often to read fresh material.

Uut Poetry
A personal blog posing as a poetry magazine with a particular interest in surrealism and surreal poetry in its broadest sense, especially in United States.

Vagabond City Literary Journal
Founded in 2013, VAGABOND CITY is a literary journal dedicated to publishing outsider literature. We seek to publish poetry and prose that fits outside the mainstream literary scene, yet still of significant literary merit. We accept and encourage authors and works of diverse social backgrounds.

Vallum Magazine
Vallum Magazine, a biannual publication founded in 2000, is based in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal, Canada) on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory. Vallum provies a forum for emerging artists to publish alongside more established figures, giving them exposure and confidence to continue with their artistic practices.

Valparaiso Poetry Review


Valve, the – A Literary Organ
The Valve is a literary weblog dedicated to the proposition that the function of the little magazine can follow this form. We mean to foster debate and circulation of ideas in literary studies and contiguous academic areas. Since a narrow academic focus would be unlikely to serve this primary project, our focus is not narrowly academic, nor purely literary. Authors are free to wander so long as they do not make positive nuisances of themselves with respect to our general aims.

Vamp Cat Magazine
We are an online literary journal publishing creative and imaginative fiction, non-fiction, poetry, travel stories, essays, and much more. We publish three online issues a year, each with a differing them.

VAYAVYA
We publish original poetry and art three times a year- February/March for Spring, June/July for Summer, and November/December for Winter. Content is largely gathered through general submissions, though sometimes we do solicit works from writers we read and admire. We also have a fondness for poets who have never published their work before.

Vending Machine Press
The best up and coming writers from around the world.

Venti Journal
A journal and collective focused on examining the effects and affects of air.

VerbalArt
A Global Journal Devoted to Poets.

Verdad Magazine
Verdad is an online, twice-yearly literary and fine arts journal that showcases the best unpublished poetry, short stories, non-fiction and visual art that comes our way. We also offer a wide range of interviews featuring contemporary writers and artists.

Verity LA
Established in 2010, Verity La is an on-line, transnational creative arts journal publishing short fiction, poetry, cultural comment, photomedia, reviews & interviews from Australia and around the world.

Verse
Verse sends you a new poetry playlist each week.A poetry playlist is a small set of poems around a particular subject, geography, time period, technique—or any other organizing theme.

Verse Daily
Verse Daily is a poetry daily on the worldwide web. By republishing one new poem a day from fine literary magazines and books, Verse Daily promotes poets and their publishers while providing a wealth of excellent poetry to the public free of charge.

Verse Wisconsin
Verse Wisconsin is the latest incarnation of the Wisconsin poetry magazine, Free Verse, published 1998-2009 by Linda Aschbrenner. In 2009 the magazine moved to Madison, co-edited by Sarah Busse and Wendy Vardaman.

VerseVille
VerseVille- A Global magazine of Poetry, Books & Reviews (formerly The Enchanting Verses Literary Review)

VERSIFICATION
Versification is a literary zine focusing on micro works. We aren’t big on black tie affairs – we want the grit under your nails.

Via Negativa
Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003.

Vietnam War Poetry
Online journal of Vietnam poetry, all viewpoints welcome, doves and hawks and those in-between.

Vine Leaves Poetry Journal
Vine Leaves, will entwine you in atmosphere; wrap you in a world where literature ferments and then matures.

Vintage poetry publishing
we publish the best poets

Virginia Quarterly Review
VQR strives to publish the best writing we can find. While we have a long history of publishing accomplished and award-winning authors, we also seek and support emerging writers. A look at one of our latest issues will show you the diversity of voices we publish.

VISIBLE Magazine
VISIBLE Magazine® is an online publication committed to making storytelling accessible and inclusive. We actively privilege the work of those whose voices have been intentionally ignored or suppressed by traditional media outlets.

Visible Poetry Project
Thirty Poets | Thirty Filmmakers | Thirty Days.

Visions with Voices
At Visions with Voices you can listen to the Spoken Word while you read the Written Word of poetry and narratives. We feature the works of poets and writers from all over the world. The works are read either by the writer or one of our Spoken Word artists.

Visitant
A visitant is a visitor from another realm. A visitant is a specter or a transitory creature, like a pilgrim or a migratory bird. Here at Visitant, we are borrowing from this concept with the goal of nurturing experimental writing and art.

Visual Verse
Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words. One image, one hour, 50-500 words. The picture is the starting point, the text is up to you.

Vita Brevis
Vita Brevis is an online poetry magazine that features unpublished or emerging poets. We charge no reading fees, accept unsolicited pieces, and are open for submissions year-round. We also accept previously published poems and concurrent submissions.

Voetica
Poetry spoken.

Voice of Eve
Voice of Eve is a web magazine dedicated to showcasing quality women’s poetry. Our hope is to build a community of women who can be empowered by sharing and reading each other’s work. We believe strength comes in unity with diversity and ultimately it is love that binds us.

VoiceCatcher: a journal of women's voices & visions
The bi-annual online literary/art journal capturing the voices and visions of women in greater Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA.

Voltage Poetry
Presenting some of poetry’s greatest turns.

Voluted Tales
Your world of speculative fiction.

Vox Poetica
vox poetica was founded in May 2009. In service to its mission, bringing poetry into the everyday, vox poetica publishes original accepted content daily and an ongoing series of responsive work. vox poetica is proud to nominate annually for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

Vox Populi
A Public Sphere for Poetry, Politics, and Nature

Vox Viola
Vox Viola Literary Magazine was created to uplift and inspire women and non-binary people through the written word and visual arts.

Vulnerary Magazine
We are a rolling weekly online poetry (and sometimes probably art / photography) mag that seeks to publish the pieces you’re not sure about. too vulnerable and raw, maybe? very sad? does it feel more like a blade to the spine than a poem? we want it.

Waccamaw
A journal of contemporary literature.

Wagon Magazine, the
The Wagon Magazine, a monthly, published in both print and digital versions, aims to locate vibrant voices in the literary wild and dedicated to publishing ‘global’ literature, theatre and art.

Wales Haiku Journal
The Wales Haiku Journal is an online journal of contemporary haiku poetry. The journal publishes a wide range of haiku poetry and special features related to the haiku form.

Walking English
New Jersey Poetry movement, thousands of syllables in the moonlit motion

Wandering Hermit Review, the
The Wandering Hermit Review is a Seattle-based journal of the arts and literature.

Wang Zen
Wang Zen, home of Spoken Word, Poetry, and Digital Art.

War Literature and the Arts Journal
An International Journal of the Humanities published by the Department of English & Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy.

Warrior Poets
Anyone can write a warrior poem, but not everyone can be a warrior poet. Warrior poetry is a perspective–a way of looking at the world. Warrior poets see things differently, and often see different things. There’s the activist side–make that Earth (green) activist–that can’t help showing up in their poetry.

Wasafiri Literary Magazine
Wasafiri is a literary magazine at the forefront in mapping new landscapes in international literature. Since the early 1980s, it has continued to provide consistent coverage to Britain’s diverse cultural heritage, travel the world via the word and publish the best of tomorrow’s writers today.

Watershed Review
Watershed Review is a literary journal produced at California State University, Chico takes submissions in the spring (January 1st through February 28th) and fall (August 1st through September 30th). We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art.

Waterwheel Review
Literature without labels.

Wax Paper, the
The Wax Paper is a broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, image, and collected conversation. The first priority of The Wax Paper is to expand our understanding of the people we share the world with, and in doing so, expand our understanding of ourselves.

Wax Poetry and Art
Wax Poetry and Art’s mission is to make poetry more widely read by publishing the world’s best poems in ways that are fun, accessible, and socially engaged.

Waxing & Waning
The editors of Waxing & Waning want what’s on the fringe. Whatever is deep and true. The moon represents this idea: what is dark, what is brooding, what is wild, what is crescent and changing.

Waxwing Literary Journal: American writers
Waxwing is a literary journal promoting the tremendous cultural diversity of contemporary American literature, alongside international voices in translation. It is the editors’ belief that American literature is thriving, both in terms of aesthetics and cultural inclusiveness.

Web Poetry Corner
A place where everyone in the world can share his or her poetry with thousands of others.

Weber: The Contemporary West
Weber, the journal, understands itself as a peer-reviewed regional and international tapestry of verbal and visual texts, a weave made from the threads of words and images.

Were-Traveler, the
The Were Traveler is an online webzine dedicated to really short fiction. When I say really short fiction, I mean REALLY short. Drabbles and micro-fic mostly, with the occasional flash piece or short story (up to 2ooo words) thrown in whenever I have time to read longer pieces.

West Texas Literary Review
West Texas Literary Review is a national print literary journal, founded in 2016, that showcases the work of writers and photographers across the United States and the world.

Whale Road Review
Whale Road Review publishes poetry, flash fiction, and micro essays that don’t demand too much time up front, but somehow leave readers changed.

What Are Birds?
What Are Birds is an online literary journal founded in 2018. We publish poetry, prose, hybrid works, short fiction and creative nonfiction, and art.

Whimperbang
Whimpering is an online literary journal published 3 times a year. Founded 2003.

Whirlwind Magazine
Whirlwind Magazine is a print and online quarterly literature/art journal focusing on social justice.

Whiskey Island
Whiskey Island is a nonprofit literary magazine that has been published in one form or another by the students of Cleveland State University for over 30 years. It is named for the island-turned-peninsula found at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to having a distillery built upon it in 1836, Whiskey Island-turned-peninsula has played the role of: dump, US Coast Guard Station, ship graveyard, and predominantly-Irish-immigrant shanty town.

Whisper
Online poetry publication.Whispering verse into the ears of humanity.

Whistling Fire, the
The Whistling Fire is an open forum where fresh voices can share creative works in progress.

Whistling Shade
Whistling Shade is a literary journal and small press located in St. Paul, MN. We take a populist approach to literature and our audience is the general reading public.

White Whale Review
Published biannually, White Whale Review is an online literary magazine devoted to the single-minded pursuit of that which eludes easy capture: "beauty"; "truth"; the fictions that window or curtain each.

Wicked Alice
Wicked Alice is a women-centered poetry journal, dedicated to publishing quality work, by both sexes, depicting and exploring the female experience. New issues are published twice a year, typically in Spring and Fall.

Wild Goose Poetry Review
Wild Goose Poetry Review is an online journal of poetry and poetry reviews.

Wild Greens
Wild Greens is a monthly online mixed-media magazine that publishes art, hand mades, poetry, essays, short fiction, music, and more.

Wild Orphan Ezine
Wild Orphan is a literary e-zine for those writers who don’t accept the mainstream, whose work is abstract, left-field, non-linear, absurd.

Wild Poetry Forum
The Wild Poetry Forum welcomes writers one and all, from age 13 to ???, and encourages you to post your work on our message boards. There are now 9 message boards on the forum, one for each of the Muses of antiquity. Therefore, each board has it's own theme, appropriate for each muse. Before you post, however, we encourage you to read the rules. This is very important so we all know what is considered acceptable and what isn't. In order to maintain some semblance of order, every community needs rules; make no mistake about it, this IS a community, and we intend to keep it a friendly one. 🙂

Wild Violet
The goal of Wild Violet, an online literary magazine, is to bridge the gap between academia and pop culture, bringing the arts to the mainstream, to make a place for the arts.

Wild Word, the
We are an online arts/culture/politics magazine that loves creative people. We are a forum for people with passion to showcase their work, to get their voices heard, to collaborate, to experiment, to create. We welcome submissions from writers, artists, photographers, painters, musicians, or for anyone with something to say, for all aspects of the magazine.

Wilderness House Literary Review
The Wilderness House Literary Review is a publication devoted to excellence in literature and the arts.

Wildness
An online literary journal of poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Willawaw Journal
Willawaw Journal is an online magazine for poetry and art, published three times a year–Fall, Winter, and Spring. Each issue features the poem prompt of a northwest poet laureate with a model response from the editor who may also promote a theme.

Willow Springs
Since 1977 Willow Springs has published the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with notable authors including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Kim Addonizio, to name a few.

Willows Wept Review
Founded online by Molly Gaudry in 2008, Willows Wept Review is a literary journal that publishes writing that explores, celebrates, interrogates, and/or problematizes the relationship between human beings and the natural world.

Winamop
Winamop was conceived on a whim, is run on a shoestring, ignored by the many, loved by the few and has continued unabashed since 2003.

Windfall
A Journal of Poetry of Place

Wizards Of The Wind And Other Strange Places
Wizards Of The Wind, an online poetry ezine, editor Michael Lee Johnson, author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom, is accepting submissions from writers. I am looking for poetry, free verse, Japanese forms, and metric (but not contrived form); very small flash fiction, and small non-fiction articles that reflect a sincere cause or issue. Art work also appreciated.

Wolff Poetry Literary Magazine
Founded in 2018 by Linda J. Wolff, WolffPoetry.com opened to the public on October 22, 2018, Wolff Poetry | A Go-To Literary Magazine. The micro-press seeks to publish two chapbooks a year, consisting of 150 poems, and feature one or two poets daily.

Wood & Water Press
publishing minimalist writing and art

Word Busker
The premise is simple. Writers, like other people who put effort into things, like to get paid for things that they spent hours of their lives on. I know I’ve just smashed your romantic vision to bits, but sentimentality can only survive on ramen noodles for so long. If you are a reader: Read the story and if you like it, make a contribution to the writer. The amount is left to your discretion. If you are a writer: you are invited to submit your work.

Word Riot
Word Riot publishes the forceful voices of up-and-coming writers and poets. We like edgy. We like challenging. We like unique voices. Word Riot first opened shop in March 2002 as the literary section of a now defunct on-line music magazine, Communication Breakdown. Each month we provide readers with book reviews, author interviews, and, most importantly, writing from some of the best and brightest making waves on the literary scene.

WordCity Literary Journal
WordCity is a multi-genre, global online literary journal that publishes every other month. We accept flash and short fiction, memoir, essays, book excerpts, poetry and book reviews. In house, we also produce a podcast, as well as features on writing news and advice. This journal is founded on the values of promoting the literary arts, on diversity, dialogue, acceptance and cultural exchange.

Wordgathering
A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature