206 magazines
Literary Magazines in the Sweet Spot
Here are the lit mags where your chances are better than impossible. Not too competitive, but not exactly easy either. A little bit of luck, a little bit of skill—you might just make it through the sweet spot. Nitty gritty? 3-8% acceptance rates with 100+ tracked subs.
206 magazines
upd ∙ Oct 3, 2026
- 1Fugue3.04% (322 tracked subs)
- 2phoebe3.05% (330 tracked subs)
- 3New Ohio Review3.10% (398 tracked subs)
- 4Orange Blossom Review3.11% (220 tracked subs)
- 5Cutleaf3.12% (211 tracked subs)
- 6Fictive Dream3.13% (185 tracked subs)
- 7Fence3.13% (344 tracked subs)
- 8Radar Poetry3.13% (174 tracked subs)
- 9Okay Donkey3.15% (840 tracked subs)
- 10Beneath Ceaseless Skies3.16% (894 tracked subs)
- 11Pacifica Literary Review3.17% (157 tracked subs)
- 12The Offing3.18% (924 tracked subs)
- 13Flash Fiction Online3.19% (414 tracked subs)
- 14Up the Staircase Quarterly3.21% (376 tracked subs)
- 15Peatsmoke Journal3.25% (473 tracked subs)
- 16Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice3.26% (113 tracked subs)
- 17Fourteen Hills3.26% (297 tracked subs)
- 18Claudine: A Literary Magazine3.26% (101 tracked subs)
- 19Poet Lore3.27% (785 tracked subs)
- 20Factor Four Magazine3.29% (922 tracked subs)
- 21WILDNESS. a literary journal3.29% (403 tracked subs)
- 22Electric Literature3.30% (842 tracked subs)
- 23Quarterly West3.30% (406 tracked subs)
- 24Sontag Mag3.33% (125 tracked subs)
- 25Amsterdam Review3.33% (128 tracked subs)
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