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The Cossack








The Cossack is a new literary journal featuring poetry, short fiction, and essays. We nominate for the Pushcart Prize and promote our contributors.
We're fond of imagery, rich meaning and deep psychological and emotional understanding.
Our “mascot,” the Cossack, symbolizes our love of writing that's proud, independent, capable, and complicated.


Genres :  Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

Submission Guidelines: www.thecossackreview.com/submit.html

Reading Period:  Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:  Less than 3 months

Reading Fee:  No

E-Submissions:  Yes

Multiple Submissions:  Yes

Payment:  Contributor copies only





Contact Information
Christine Gosnay, Editor
Hutchinson Road
Los Gatos, CA 95033
cgosnay@gmail.com

River Styx


















River Styx began in the early 1970s when a group of poets and musicians began reading and jamming together in various St. Louis apartments. The first issue of River Styx Magazine, printed on a lithographic press and hand-collated, hit the streets a few years later in 1975. Both the magazine and the readings were characterized by energy, accessibility, humor, wit, and a spirit of inclusiveness. In the 37 years that followed, the readings took place each month at Duff's Restaurant in St. Louis, often packed to capacity, and River Styx magazine bloomed into an international, award-winning journal of poetry, fiction, essays, interviews and art. The magazine has consistently been one of the first to publish some of the most important writers of our time, from U.S. Poet Laureates (Howard Nemerov, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove, Robert Hass and Ted Kooser), to Pulitzer Prize-Winners (Yusef Komunyakaa), to Nobel Laureates (Derek Walcott and Czeslaw Milosz). In September 2012, the reading series moved to the Tavern of Fine Arts, where its playful yet dedicated spirit continues.

 River Styx has been included in many editions of The Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, New Stories from the South, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. The magazine itself has won several Stanley Hanks Prizes, awards from Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines as well as grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Missouri Arts Council, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Humanities Council, and Arts and Education. This website samples recent work from River Styx's rich tradition.



Website: http://www.riverstyx.org/

Submission Info: http://www.riverstyx.org/submissions/index.php

E submissions: No, snail mail+5 month wait for response.  No comment.


Contact Info
Magazine Editor: Richard Newman

Mailing Address:

River Styx Magazine
3547 Olive Street, Suite 107
St. Louis, MO 63103



Granta
























































































































































































































































































































Granta magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, student badinage and student literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it had a long and distinguished history, publishing the early work of many writers who later became well known, including A. A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. During the 1970s, it ran into trouble – dwindling money, mounting apathy – from which it was rescued by a small group of postgraduates who successfully and surprisingly relaunched it as a magazine of new writing, with both writers and their audience drawn from the world beyond Cambridge.

 Since 1979, the year of its rebirth, Granta has published many of the world’s finest writers tackling some of the world’s most important subjects, from intimate human experiences to the large public and political events that have shaped our lives. Its contributors have included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Saul Bellow, Peter Carey, Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Bruce Chatwin, James Fenton, Richard Ford, Martha Gellhorn, Nadine Gordimer, Milan Kundera, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jayne Anne Phillips, Salman Rushdie, George Steiner, Graham Swift, Paul Theroux, Edmund White, Jeanette Winterson and Tobias Wolff. Every issue since 1979 is still in print. In the pages of Granta, readers met for the first time the narrative prose of writers such as Bill Bryson, Romesh Gunesekera, Blake Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith; and have encountered events and topics as diverse as the fall of Saigon, the mythology of the Titanic, adultery, psychotherapy and Chinese cricket fighting.

 Granta does not have a political or literary manifesto, but it does have a belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real. As the Observer wrote of Granta: ‘In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.’

 Sign up to Granta’s monthly newsletter here.


Website: http://www.granta.com/

Submission Info: http://www.granta.com/Submissions

Contact Info

Granta Publications
12 Addison Avenue
London W11 4QR
Tel +44(0)20 7605 1360
Fax +44(0)20 7605 1361


Writers Haven




Writers Haven is a reclusive destination for any writer who is tired of following the protocols of the publishing world and the demands of changing search engine algorithms.

Every form of writing is encouraged including poetry and sonnets. It is theme based to provide a cue to nudge the creative writing process. 
 (*Art and Information provided by Writers Haven)



Genres: Prose, poetry

Format: Web

Response time: 2 weeks

Pays: no

E-Submissions: Yes (no attachments, text only emails)

 Reading Fee: No



Contact
Nayanna Chakrbarty


Pennsylvania Literary Journal



Pennsylvania Literary Journal publishes short stories, book reviews and poetry.  This is a more "academic" literary journal, with a focus on more traditional styles in the traditions of Updike and Hemingway.  I don't like to use the word "stuffy," but it seems to fit here.    
Website                



Genres Published:

 Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

genres:

Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Feminist, Historical, Humor, Formal, Political, Prose Poetry, 

Formats: Web, Print
Reading Period: Jan 1st to Dec 31st

Reporting Time: Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee: No

Accepts Electronic Submissions: Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: Yes

Unsolicited Submissions: Yes

Payment: None


Contact Information

Anna Faktorovich, Editor-in-Chief
c/o International Cooperation Department
Shantou University
Shantou, 515063

Paper Darts















Paper darts is a beautifully designed magazine with a high attention to artful presentation.  This literary journal does not bombard the reader with daunting text blocks, and mixes art and literature together in a seamless arrangement.  Paper darts boasts a wide assortment of styles and formats, including: poetry, nonfiction, fiction, interviews, comic art, traditional art, and other artistic forms. 

 The blog also breaks away from the mundane in its presentation.   After reading a few short stories and some flash fiction on the blog, I was very impressed by the overall quality of what I read.  There seems to be a wide variety of styles and voices there.  Before submitting a story, check out the blog, read a few stories, and get a sense of the vibe of Paper Darts.  

Website

 Submission Guidelines

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction

Other Genres: Graphic, Nonfiction, 
Submission Period: Nov 30th to Nov 30th
Reporting Time: Less than 3 months

 Reading Fee: No


E-Submissions: Yes


Multiple Submissions: Yes


Unsolicited Submissions: Yes


Payment: Contributor copies 

Contact Information

Northeast
Minneapolis, MN 55418

Every Day Fiction













Genres: 
Flash fiction (up to 1000 words) – our readers prefer pieces that tell or at least hint at a complete story (some sort of rising action or tension toward a moment of climax, and at least a clue toward a resolution, though it doesn’t have to be all spelled out).


Representative Authors: 
Please see our Top Stories page (http://www.everydayfiction.com/features/top-stories/) for a sampling of stories that have been well received by our readership. We publish a wide variety of stories, so there’s no particular author who could be considered “representative” of EDF as a whole.


Magazine Name:
Every Day Fiction

Website: 


Formats: 
Daily online publication and email/RSS subscription, plus an annual print best-of anthology

Year Founded: 
2007

Issues per Year: 
Daily (365)

Issue Price: 
Free to read online or by email/RSS, with print anthologies available for purchase (seehttp://www.everydayfiction.com/features/print-books/)

Subscription: 
Free

Circulation: 
Approximately 2.4K email subscribers, 800 RSS subscribers, and 100K unique visitors to the website in 2012

Submission Guidelines: 
http://www.everydayfiction.com/submit-story/

Reading Period: 
Always open

Reporting Time: 
Maximum 90 days

Charges Reading Fee: 
No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:
Yes – online ONLY via our submission system (see submission guidelines page); no email or snail mail submissions, please, as they will be deleted/placed in the recycling bin

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
No – because of our contract process and a sometimes very quick turnaround between acceptance and publication, we cannot take simultaneous submissions

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes

Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
Not applicable as stories are published on a daily basis rather than in issues, and we have no particular quota, but debut authors are welcome and we typically publish at least a few each month.

Payment: 
US$3 per accepted story

Contact:
Please see http://www.everydayfiction.com/contact-us/ for a general contact form and contact information (this is the best way to get reach our whole editorial team at once and get an answer as quickly as possible).
EDF’s Managing Editor, Camille Gooderham Campbell, can be reached directly at camille[at]everydayfiction[dot]com, in the event that you have a concern requiring her personal attention.

Publisher:
Every Day Publishing Ltd.
PO Box 2482 – 349 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 3W7 CANADA