25 Best Lit Mags of 2023 - Chill Subs Community Favorites

The Hooghly Review is a free-access digital magazine of literature, culture and arts that aims to publish creatives at all stages of their careers, and is indexed in EBSCO’s literary research database.

The Hooghly Review is a free-access digital magazine of literature, culture and arts that aims to publish creatives at all stages of their careers. We are indexed in EBSCO’s literary research database. Our publications have made the Best Microfiction 2026, Monarch Queer Literary Awards 2026 Finalists, and Wigleaf Top 50 Longlists in 2025 and 2026. 

Our issues are released as beautifully designed free-access PDFs on our website, which is host to creatives from 66 nations, published in Regular and Special Issues, Weekly Features (our home for culture, humour, travel, translations and more), ASAP Corner (our home for reviews, interviews and excerpts), and The Writer’s Gauntlet (our fun interview column hosted by Sadie Kaye).

including Novel Excerpts, Translations

including Prose Poetry

Literature Essays

Creative

also Photography, Haiga, Photo Essays

Murals, Graffiti, Street Art

and Film Scripts

including Cartoons

Everyone 18 and above are welcome to submit!

These magazines have a strong social presence and promote contributors. Here, your work will be amplified with high engagement rates, beautiful presentation, and growing follower counts.

Lit Mags for Social Media Exposure

Not just words. These magazines publish paintings, comics, illustrations, and other visual art alongside or instead of traditional text-based work.

Magazines That Publish Comics, Art, or Other Visual Works

We asked, you guys answered. Here are more of the community's spring 2026 favorites for you cool kids, weird kids, very serious adults, etc.

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Where The Cool Kids Are Submitting Their Writing: Part 4

Not about prizes or prestige. Solely based on the writing community's nominations.

Online publications putting forward exceptional short stories for Best of the Net.

Fiction Magazines That Nominate for Best of the Net

A targeted resource for short story placements with potential for Pushcart recognition.

Fiction Magazines That Nominate for the Pushcart Prize

Specialized publications that recognize exceptional brief fiction through Pushcart nominations.

Digital publications advancing very short fiction for Best of the Net consideration.

Flash Fiction Magazines That Nominate for Best of the Net

Best Microfiction, edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, celebrates the art of the extremely brief narrative. These publications have editorial teams with particular sensitivity to the craft.

Literary Magazines That Nominate for Best Microfiction

Identifies publications that put forward outstanding online work for this respected digital anthology established in 2006.

Literary Magazines That Nominate for Best of the Net

Publications that nominate work for this respected anthology series founded in 2015 by Tara Masih to celebrate fiction under 1,000 words.

Literary Magazines That Nominate for Best Small Fictions

A comprehensive guide to journals that regularly nominate work for the Pushcart Prize.

Literary Magazines That Nominate for the Pushcart Prize

These magazines have the fastest response times, so you won't be left hanging for months. No more endless waiting. Just, you know, regular waiting.

Literary Magazines with the Fastest Response Times

Explore the most popular literary magazines of all time. These long-established publications are a staple in the literary world for writers of all genres.

Most Popular Literary Magazines of All Time

Digital publications nominating outstanding essays and creative nonfiction for Best of the Net.

Nonfiction Magazines That Nominate for Best of the Net

Highlights publications that regularly put forward essays, memoirs, and other creative nonfiction for Pushcart consideration.

Nonfiction Magazines That Nominate for the Pushcart Prize

Online journals that specifically champion poetry for Best of the Net consideration.

Poetry Magazines That Nominate for Best of the Net

Focuses specifically on poetry journals with established histories of Pushcart nominations.

Poetry Magazines That Nominate for the Pushcart Prize

The Hooghly Review

Issue 4

Our Weekly Features page is a living, breathing ecosystem comprising the liveliest writings from across categories that do not often find a place in the somewhat rigid litmag issue model with its constraints of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry etc. We publish humour (can be prose, poetry, drama, etc.), culture essays (literature, cinema, theatre, music, sports, art, food, and everything else under the sun), travelogues / travel writing, photo essays (should tell a story through the photographs with the written work designed to supplement the photos), craft essays, and reviews (of books, films, theatre, music albums). Try us even if you cannot figure out how to categorise your work.

(Hybrid)

Weekly Features

The call is unthemed. We want the literary, though we are open to elements of any or multiple genres such as surrealism, absurdism, magic realism, crime, noir, dark humour, and so on. Our taste is eclectic, and we like surprises.

Issue 5 (Poetry)

The call is unthemed. We want the literary, though we are open to elements of any or multiple genres such as surrealism, absurdism, magic realism, crime, noir, dark humour, and so on. Our taste is eclectic, and we like surprises. We’re looking for microfiction (1-3 pieces of up to 400 words each), flash fiction (1 piece, 401-1000 words), and short stories (1 piece, 1001-3500 words).

Issue 5 (Fiction)

Issue 5 (CNF)

<div>The call is unthemed. Our taste is eclectic, and we like surprises.</div><div><br></div>An artist statement along with a title for the collection (if multiple pieces are selected) will be requested upon acceptance.

Issue 5 (Art/Photography)

The ASAP Corner is our home for reviews, conversations and excerpts—best served hot.<div><br></div><div>Send us:</div><div><br></div><div><ul><li>reviews of books, films, TV, web/OTT content, theatre, music albums, video games, etc. 

</li><li>conversations with individuals practising any creative form of expression, including but not limited to writers, poets, playwrights, translators, painters, digital artists, muralists, sculptors, actors, musicians, filmmakers, etc.

</li><li>excerpts from forthcoming or recently-published books (submissions of book excerpts must come either directly from the publisher, or be accompanied by the publisher’s consent letter/email)</li></ul><br></div><div><b>Preferred word limit:</b> 1200 for reviews and conversations, and 3500 for excerpts</div>

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