ARTWIFE Magazine is a digital literary & arts magazine publishing short stories, essays, visual art, and video art. We host a monthly podcast on the craft of writing and the life of the artist, featuring interviews with published authors and contributors to our magazine. Artists of all kinds are invited to join us for The ARTWIFE Creative Hour, a free and virtual working session meeting every week.

Autofocus Literary is a publisher of artful autobiographical writing in any form: personal essay, memoir, confessional poetry, journals & diaries, letters & e-mails, bits & pieces of each of these, and other work that makes art from your life. We publish a book imprint, an online journal, and a podcast. The imprint, Autofocus Books, specializes in work that fits, and occasionally stretches, the boundaries of our interest in literary autobiography. We launched in early 2022 and currently publish six to eight books a year.

The Baltimore Review, founded in 1996, is a literary journal publishing the poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction of writers from across the U.S. and beyond. 

Barrelhouse is a literary organization that puts out a print magazine, runs a small press, organizes the writers conference Conversations & Connections, the retreat Writer Camp, and online Write-Ins, and publishes reviews, interviews, and issues online.

At Chestnut Review we understand that it is hard to write and create, and even harder to navigate the publishing world. We support “stubborn artists” (writers, poets, and visual artists) with a timely response to submissions, professional payments, and communication and kindness throughout the publishing process. We offer opportunities to learn and grow like feedback from our talented staff and editors and international retreats, so you can get the knowledge you need to improve your craft and build your career.

Here’s a few of our achievements:

• We’ve paid over $100,000 to artists and staff over 24 quarterly issues and 12 chapbooks.

• Our staff, currently around 70 people, hails from all over—every continent except Antarctica.

• Each and every piece we publish goes through a multivocal rating process with discussion.

• We currently have three Best of the Net finalists and three Best Small Fictions winners.

fifth wheel press is an independent community-focused publisher of art and writing by queer, trans, and gender variant creatives.

Gargoyle magazine was founded in 1976 by Russell Cox, Richard Peabody, and Paul Pasquarella. By 1977, Peabody was the only member of the original triumvirate left. He ran the mag until 1990 with several co-editors through the years, most notably Gretchen Johnsen (1979-1986) and Peggy Pfeiffer (1988-1990). Based in the Washington, D.C., metro area, Gargoyle was dedicated to printing work by unknown poets and fiction writers, as well as seeking out the overlooked or neglected. The magazine archive is housed in the Special Collections at George Washington University’s Gelman Library in DC (some back issues are still available to the public as well—read on). The mag was on something of an extended hiatus as of 1990 and resurfaced in 1997.

In A Flash publishes creative nonfiction of up to 500 words, written to theme. We feature one author and their piece in each issue, along with a craft Q&A about their work. We love working in flash - the electric way a single sentence, a single short paragraph, a single phrase can change the way you view yourself and the world in the span of a moment. We’re excited to create more opportunities for short flash nonfiction in the literary world!

Necessary Fiction publishes a new book review each Monday, a featured short story each Wednesday, our Research Notes series on Fridays, and occasional interviews, essays, and other surprises. We can also be found on Bluesky and less often these days on Twitter. We also have a newsletter to help you keep up with what we’ve been publishing.

The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media.

The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions.

The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits.

Poet Lore: America's oldest poetry magazine, publishing in print since 1889, Poet Lore is a biannual journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. Each issue features a curated folio of work from a select guest editor alongside poems from our general selections. We champion innovative and experimental poetic forms, from prose sequences to poems that utilize negative space on the page, and feature poems that broaden the spectrum of what poetry is and can be.

Riot in Your Throat is an independent poetry press publishing fierce, feminist poetry.

Santa Fe Writer’s Project was founded in 1998 by Andrew Gifford and is dedicated to artistic preservation, recognizing exciting new authors, and bringing out of print work back to the shelves through an eclectic catalog of fiction and creative nonfiction, an online quarterly journal, and an annual Awards Program that has been judged by writers such as Benjamin Percy, Emily St. John Mandel, Jayne Anne Phillips, Robert Olen Butler, and many others. Find out more at www.sfwp.com.

Stanchion is an independent quarterly print literary magazine and book press founded in the suburbs of Philadelphia during the tumultuous summer of 2020 by editor-in-chief and one-man band, Jeff Bogle. The magazine is printed on thick uncoated A5 paper and features short stories, flash fiction, CNF, poetry, one-act plays, drawings, collage art, and black & white photography.

Stanchion is an inclusive space, a paying publication and press with no fees, and is a safe home for diverse voices from around the globe. (partner press incentive: issues 16 and 17, plus two bookmarks).

Story is a tri-annual print publication devoted to the complex and diverse world of short fiction. Since 1931, work that originally appeared in Story has been reprinted dozens of times in editions of The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. 

Taco Bell Quarterly is the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters. We’re a reaction against everything. The gatekeepers. The taste-makers. The hipsters. Health food. Artists Who Wear Cute Scarves. Bitch-ass Wendy’s. We seek to demystify what it means to be literary, artistic, important, and elite. We welcome writers and artists of all merit, whether you’re published in The Paris Review, rejected from The Paris Review, or DGAF what The Paris Review is. First and foremost, TBQ is about great writing. It’s about provoking and existing among the white noise of capitalism. We embrace the spectrum of trash to brilliance. Taco Bell Quarterly has tens of thousands of readers. We’ve been interviewed or mentioned in Vox, Salon, Food and Wine Magazine, Mental Floss, Yahoo, The Guardian, The New York Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Literary Hub, Bon Appetit and dozens more.

Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a non-profit, cooperative literary organization that has published over 100 volumes of poetry since 1975 as well as fiction and nonfiction. The press sponsors three annual competitions for writers living in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, and the winners of each category (one each in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction) comprise our annual slate. In 2021, WWPH launched an online literary journal, WWPH WRITES to expand our mission to further the creative work of writers in our region. In 2024, WWPH launched our biennial works in translation series. More about the Washington Writers' Publishing House at www.washingtonwriters.org

Yellow Arrow Publishing is a Baltimore-based independent non-profit press that supports and inspires writers and artists identifying as women through publication and access to the literary arts. Women’s voices have historically been underrepresented in literature, and we aim to elevate those voices and stories through our programs and publications. Yellow Arrow publishes a biannual journal in print and PDF, an annual online journal celebrating Baltimore creatives, and multiple chapbooks each year; offers a rich and affordable program of online workshops; and holds readings and other special events in Baltimore and beyond. See the Yellow Arrow website and @yellowarrowpublishing on social media for more.