A literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world.

Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté, and Neustadt Prizes, recipients of Guggenheim, Whiting, National Book Critics Circle, and National Book Awards, and many writers seeing their work in print for the first time. 

The Pleiades Book Review is an online supplement to the magazine that features both long-form reviews and shorter reviews of books released primarily by independent publishers.

Each year, Pleiades—in partnership with Copper Nickel and Gulf Coast—distributes the featured book in the Unsung Masters Series. Each volume focuses on an important writer whose work has been unjustly neglected and features both a generous sample of creative work and numerous essays. Unsung Masters Series volumes are distributed free to subscribers with the Spring issue of Pleiades and are also available through Small Press Distribution.

Basically what it says in the title. Our top most bookmarked fee-free lit mags that nominate for the Pushcart Prize.

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Story-focused publications with works chosen for Pushcart Prize anthologies. Less than 5% of nominated fiction typically makes the anthology.

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Publications with pieces chosen for Pushcart Prize anthologies. Recognition of exceptional quality across poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

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Looking for balance between prestige and accessibility? These magazines are competitive but attainable for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction writers.

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Journals that forward outstanding nonfiction to this respected anthology series founded in 1986. These publications identify exceptional essays that might reach the broader readership BAE provides.

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Essay-focused publications with works selected for Pushcart Prize anthologies. These journals have repeatedly identified nonfiction that resonates with Pushcart editors and readers.

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Pleiades Magazine

Lovely, very high-level but contemporary in the best ways—looking language with new eyes every page.

Pleiades is particularly interested in creative nonfiction that looks both inward and outward, that makes the reader both think and feel at the same time. All forms of creative nonfiction, including personal essay and memoir, are welcome, but we are particularly interested in nonfiction that balances introspection and the personal with writing through or about something larger than ourselves. Straight reportage, literary analysis, or academic writing such as articles, research papers, or scholarly-oriented works don’t fit our aesthetic on their own, and we wish you the best of luck placing those works elsewhere. If a piece balances any of these approaches with creative nonfiction techniques and craft, then feel free to send that work our way.<div><br></div><div>Please limit your submissions to 6,000 words in length; however, longer works may be considered if space permits. Single pieces over 8,000 words will really need to capture our attention and make us excited about the writing. For flash packets, please submit up to three pieces at a time. Flash pieces should be 1,000 words or less and all be within the same file, with each new piece starting on a new page.</div>

General call

Pleiades is looking for exceptional fiction, with a focus on well-developed characters, memorable language, and immersive settings, as well as provocatively wrought subject matter conveyed via a distinct voice. While there are no length requirements, our journal has limited space, and manuscripts over 12,000 words will especially need to impress.

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