Editor Interviews

Rattle, Gulf Coast, Broadsided, and Split Lip.

I'm particularly fond of the properly maverick Tangerine Press. My favourite small press novel of the last year is Ghost Driver by Nell Osborne published by Moist Books

We are a small but swiftly-growing indie literary press. Think of us as a smaller, spunkier version of the "belles lettres" tradition of publishing -- a list with a solid core of literary and (non-academic) intellectual books (philosophy, theology, cultural criticism) but also a purveyor of high-quality work in genres like mysteries, thrillers, young adult fiction, and the like.

Strange Pilgrims
Consequence Forum
other Filipino publishers

All of them.

Anhinga Press, Apalachee Review, Poetry, Poet Lore, Poetrybay, Poets & Writers, Florida Review, Nimrod, Ploughshares.

SmokeLong Quarterly
Fractured Lit
Ghost Parachute
Cowboy Jamboree
BULL
Epistemic Lit

Santa Monica Review. Iowa. Fourteen Hills. EPOCH. Michigan Quarterly Review. So many, really.

NOON, Conjunctions, Granta, Five Points, Image, BOMB

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Giganotosaurus, Escape Pod, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Otherside

The Belfast Review, The Madrid Review, The Piker Press, BULL, Stanchion, Poetry Wales, Poetry Scotland, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Bus, The Seventh Quarry, Porch Literary Magazine, Paddler Press, Roi Fainéant Press, etc.

Agni, Granta, Paris Review

I'm inspired by publishers who treat the book as an art object rather than just a vessel for content. TASCHEN's commitment to beautiful, archival-quality design has influenced The Rebis, as well as Graywolf Press's commitment to publishing work that feels artistically adventurous.

Stone Soup
Skipping Stones
The Blue Marble Review

To name a few, and in no particular order: Crystal Lake Publishing, Bad Hand Books, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Nightfire (Tor), Locus Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine…

We admire "te" for the intellectual depth and visual care it brings to bilingual publishing. Each issue begins with a focused theme, but approaches it through multiple disciplines—literature, contemporary art, anthropology, sociology, and visual research. We are especially drawn to the way it treats a magazine not simply as a collection of individual works, but as a carefully constructed object of inquiry.
We also admire "Slant’d" for the community it has built around AAPI storytelling. Its publications bring together personal essays, fiction, poetry, art, and photography from creators across different generations, geographies, and experiences. What feels especially meaningful to us is that its work extends beyond representation alone: it creates an accessible and welcoming space in which emerging writers and artists can discover, develop, and share their voices.

We aspire to read everything, and get caught up in the world of independent literary imprints. This can be from bigger names like Nightboat books, Split Lip, or HAD, to more obscure or lesser-known orgs like SPF Lit Mag, t4t project, stone of madness press, etc. The latter group have been kind enough to publish some of my work, and The Decadent Review has been a home for much of my redaction writing--which is not in manuscript form. But we don't ignore the world, and keep an eye on voices from outlets such as Ploughshares, Poetry, and Black Lawrence Press. Sybil originally only published for San Marcos locals, but has become more widely recognised in part by efforts of publications such as The Bitchin' Kitchen.

Some of the publications we most admire include Wild Roof Journal, The Adroit Journal, Anodyne Magazine, Wellspringwords, and Fifth Corner Journal. We also highly admire indie presses like Unsolicited Press, Dzanc Books, Quilted Press, First Matter Press, and more. This list could honestly go on forever; we're extremely grateful to get to be in such a diverse and amazing literary community.

Revenant Journal. Pacific Northwest Gothic. Seaside Gothic. Baltimore Gothic. Weird Horror. Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror. We're always on the hunt!

This magazine was inspired by Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, but I also love Beneath Ceaseless Skies

RABBLE REVIEW was founded out of Riverside City College's literary journal, MUSE. Angel Neri, our editor in chief, and I both worked on separate issues of their magazine. And we remain huge fans of that publication and the work they're doing in the space and in the surrounding community. We're also fans of Fruitslice and the work they're doing, The Ear (another literary journal based out of a community college), Blood and Honey, and I've recently discovered Beestung Magazine, they're doing some great stuff as well.

There are many. University of Kentucky Press is excellent. Belt Publishing. There are a number of smaller presses, too, who are either out of places like Palestine and Appalachia, that exist more as collectives to get work out to readers fast, and those are ones I often admire quite a bit.

Orion, Emergence Magazine, Milkweed, Autofocus Books, Tor.com

Rhino, Anacapa Review, 32 Poems, Clade Song, Sixth Finch, Calyx, Sheila-na-Gig, Muzzle, Minyan Magazine, The Common, Poet Lore, and many others.

There are so many! Some of our favorite places to find great speculative short fiction are Small Wonders, Fusion Fragment, Heartlines Spec, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, and khoréo. We admire magazines like Clarkesworld and Beneath Ceaseless Skies for setting a standard we can aspire to: fast responses, ethical policies, and truly excellent stories. And (on top of the fact that they publish fantastic work) we wouldn't be here without the advice and support we've gotten from the folks behind Diabolical Plots and New Edge Sword & Sorcery. Lastly, if you're looking for queer speculative fiction, we're big fans of Neon Hemlock, and we're also super excited to see the return of Anathema and the launch of Fantabulosa! in 2026. We live in an amazing time for short fiction.. but it's also a really hard time to survive, as a small magazine. It's critically important to support the publishers you love.

We admire publications and publishers that combine strong editorial vision, artistic seriousness, and care for the communities they serve. A few we especially admire include The Indianapolis Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine, Copper Canyon Press, Atlanta Review, Scalawag Magazine, and Gulf Coast. We appreciate The Indianapolis Review’s attention to poetry and visual art, Tupelo Quarterly’s commitment to creative risk and generous literary community, Split Lip’s voice-driven contemporary work, Copper Canyon’s long-standing devotion to poetry, Atlanta Review’s international reach, Scalawag’s place-based storytelling and cultural engagement, and Gulf Coast’s meaningful intersection of literature and fine arts.

Adroit, Annulet, Blackbird, Brevity, Diagram, Sixth Finch, Smokelong, Waxwing, Wigleaf - there are so many!

Literally Stories

Oxford American
Salvation South
Brown Dog
Hub City
Southern Review

Ooh! So hard to choose. Guernica and Apogee Journal often offer up literature at the intersection of identity and justice with a side of global conscience that's attractive. We're often crushing on Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Gulf Coast for their literary risk taking and craft.

Quirky Flash Chronicles
The Believer

We admire Mom Egg Review and Mutha Magazine and Raising Mothers for parenting essays — but what we truly love are really edgy and crazy off-the-deep end zines and experimental fiction that works and staggering illustrated art publications of all kinds - Pen Parentis is breaking the stereotype of what people should expect from parents. Just having a kid should never end a literary career: eight of the last ten Nobel Prize Winners had kids! We want to show that parents write all kinds of things--they're not just mommy bloggers.

I am interested in a wide range of fiction. Recent books I admire include TOM LAKE by Ann Patchett, THE EVERLASTING by Alix Harrow, ATMOSPHERE by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and SHROUD by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

There are so many literary journals out there to admire. Some of my personal favorites are Rattle, Copper Nickel, Beloit Poetry Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Trade Review, and Tough Poets Review. -Lauren Tivey, Faculty Advisor

I am currently enjoying The Fig Tree Magazine and Nowhere Girl Collective, two indie publications run by women who are devoted to the art and craft of writing. -Jaden Rudd, Head Editor

I'm interested in CavanKerry Press because of their complex yet unique amalgamation of poetry, beauty, and emotional landscapes through stunning, high-quality books (especially their covers). They offer a variety of opportunities for a wide-range of readers & writers, highlighting diversity and inclusivity, especially through the uniqueness of their themed titles.

There are so many great indie presses right now that are lifting up voices that don't often get the spotlight. Dragon Bone Publishing is one, doing some amazing things.

Taco Bell Quarterly
Querencia Press
JAKE
Bullshit Lit
Wishbone Words
Kith Books
fifth wheel press
Dodo Eraser

The HTML Review
Frozen Sea
Mercury Firs
A Velvet Giant
Diagram
Split Lip Magazine
Afternoon Visitor
Sho
Lullaby Machine
No Dear

F(r)iction Literary Journal for the way they pair stories with custom artwork. Any press championing literary fiction with a speculative bend.

While there are a number of magazines that have inspired us, these are the ones we most frequently go back to: Strange Horizons, Desh, S-F Magazine, Daily Star Books, Slant Magazine, Slipstream, Mithila Review, Star*Line, Sticky Rice Magazine, New Gothic Review, and COEVAL Magazine.

When I started the journal, I had a publication in mind -- Reader's Digest. I wanted a family friendly, safe reading place.
At a personal level, I like a variety of books and online publications. I read for entertainment too. I do not really look at publishers but more at the content. My reading -- or admiration for a piece -- could vary from a poem in an online journal to a Dan Brown novel to a history book by Trushke, or someone like Harari, or on compassion by Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi. I do not really make a note of the publisher -- it's more the content published.

A few publications I’ve always enjoyed reading include The Adroit Journal, Split Lip Magazine, and HAD. I also admire a range of fellow youth-led publications from more established magazines like Aster Lit to newer ones like Sonder Literary.

We admire publications that combine strong editorial vision with international reach, including Granta, The Paris Review, n+1, McSweeney’s, Wasafiri, and Guernica. We also respect independent presses and journals that invest in translation and cross-cultural work, such as Words Without Borders and Asymptote.

I’m a huge fan of the competitive flash fiction circuit. Aside from running and judging the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction, I also like to compete myself in NYC Midnight, Writing Battle and Twisted Tournament. While those comps don’t all publish their winning stories, they’re a great vehicle for building a portfolio of stories for lit mag submissions.

Hi-Fructose, Cabinet, Apartamento, Noon

I like Southern Indiana Review. That's the first magazine that comes to mind.

Akashic Books, Mason Jar Press, Two Dollar Radio, Haymarket Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions, City Lights, Dzanc Books, Little Patuxent Review

There are so many. I particularly admire anyone in the independent publishing spaces who is doing community-focused, analog work. Lefty Blondie Press is one who does limited-run, beautiful hand-bound chapbooks. They embrace the art of the physical book in such an interesting way. I also appreciate Baubles from Bones. I enjoy reading their stories, and I like their short fiction focus.

We love all of our contemporaries! We think of ourselves along the lines of The Rumpus, A Public Space, The Common, Apogee, River Teeth, and Black Warrior Review, among others.

All Due Respect and Tough were two publishers that heavily influenced how I thought about launching a new crime and mystery fiction review. I also absolutely love Rock and a Hard Place. They're one of the most exciting crime fiction publishers in the market, and they're doing great work to make the genre feel vital.

Neon & Smoke. Great editors and the stories they publish are hidden gems.
I also really admire Midnight & Indigo, Frigg, and Vast Chasm.

Comma Press in Manchester
404 Ink
Canongate
Polygon

NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, BOSTON GLOBE, Graywolf Press, Seven Stories Press

I admire other independent presses like Falstaff Books, Mocha Memoirs, and Gold Dust Publishing that promote diversity in their works. They help support aspiring writers and creatives, which is the goal of Once Upon A Queer Publishing.

I really enjoy manywor(l)ds, Folly Journal, and Catchwater Magazine. Additionally, I think the pieces these journals publish are right up our alley. If you like these journals, try us!

The Pinch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, Lunch Ticket, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Black Warrior, Salt Hill

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Economist, and The Paris Review for their literary and journalistic excellence. Hortus - the 'New Yorker' of horticultural literature - for its elegant writing on plants. I also admired Tod Lippy’s Esopus (when it existed) and Flair, a bold and innovative publication from the 1950s.

As an Australian publication, I admire, and am greatly indebted to, independent Australian journals such as Overland, Island, Cordite, The Suburban Review, Going Down Swinging, Debris Magazine, Mascara Literary Review, Peril Magazine and Liminal. I also particularly love small and community based journals - Swim Meet Lit Mag, Aniko Press, Babyteeth, Fondue and Written Off to name a few.

Tablet Magazine, Commentary Magazine, The Jewish Review of Books, Moment Magazine, Jewish Journal

So many! Bull (MrBull), Anti-heroin chic, I love their heart and guts. ANMLY. Suburban Witchcraft is shockingly gorgeous and freeing. Does it have pockets for its wide open attitude. Milk Candy as the beautiful stretch goal. Trash Can lit for its terrific writer-focused efforts. Blood + Honey is just so cool. Frazzled Lit. I could go on for a long time because we're lucky to be in a time when there are so many lit mags, from the traditionally prestigious and almost impossible to get in to those embracing all kinds of genres and ethos. So many magazines of all kinds that really care about you and your work and the world.

Smokelong Quarterly, Gooseberry Pie, Ghost Parachute, Cleaver, Fractured Literary, The Cut, The Sun, and many others.

Outside of the major publishers, we really like the books that Counterpoint, Thomas & Mercer, Soho Press, Hard Case Crime, Oceanview and Stark House are putting out.

Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Iowa Review, either/or, Missouri Review, as well as Dzanc books, Belt publishing, Graywolf, Two Dollar Radio

So many good publications are gone and forgotten. Aspen magazine is amazing - someone should reprint them. I love the underground newspapers of the 1960s. Sumac was a great literary journal. Evergreen was, of course, awesome. I also love the local "Auto trader" magazine. Early Wax Poetics magazines were amazing. McSweeney's and The Believer are inspiration for us.

Mouthful of Salt & Flash Fiction Magazine

The New Quarterly; The New Yorker; The Malahat Review; Smokelong; Pithead Chapel; Milk Candy Review; CRAFT; Short Story, Long; & Reckon Review.

Plume Poetry, Brevity, Lake Effect, Boston Review, AGNI, The Yale Review, DIALOGIST, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series, Southeast Review, Copper Nickel.

Some of our favorites are Black Gat Books, Death's Head Press, Hard Case Crime, and Weird Tales.

Old favourites include Private Eye and New Statesman, for their cutting-edge journalism and sensitive coverage of the arts.
In terms of indie publications, we're fans of NECKSNAP for their dark content and gorgeous editions, and we love the eccentricity of HAD.

Publishers:
Graywolf
Copper Canyon
Soft Skull
Haymarket
Autumn House
WTAW
Melville House
New Directions
City Lights
Noemi

Publications:
Ploughshares
Paris Review
One Story
McSweeney's
Kenyon Review
Electric Literature
The Sun
BOMB
n+1
Prairie Schooner
Guernica
Pleides
Ninth Letter

Tipton Poetry Journal, Cholla Needles, Paperboats, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Rat's Ass Review, Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press, Zest of the Lemon, North of Oxford, The Woodside Review, Verse-Virtual, Contemporary Haibun Online, and Drifting Sands Haibun.

So many of the flash fiction publications publish stories I love. New Flash Fiction Review, Roi Fainéant, Milk Candy spring to mind. I also read a decent amount of fantasy and love Small Wonders for the wild and poetic imaginings on there (I'm an intermittent first reader for them).

Okay Donkey continues to have great, voice-y flash, Gone Lawn is my go-to for prose poetry and micros. HAD is so wonderful and strange and the pieces are often exactly what I'm looking to read and publish. Silly Goose Press is so fun. I could keep going for ages, but those are a few that I consistently read and look to.

Poets & Writers, The New Yorker, Alta Journal, Siglio Press, Angel City Press, Granta, N+1, The Atlantic, Harper's and all the great literary journals.

I regularly read the Stinging Fly and Mslexia and enjoy many podcasts - Alt Stories and Strange Familiars are two I’ve listened to recently.

PINCH, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, The Kenyon Review

Trio House, WTAW press, Black Lawrence, Sarabande, Zona Motel.

Several of our past and present contributors work with presses as editors and EICs, including Stanchion, Raw Lit, and others. A few others we enjoy reading ourselves are The Solitary Daisy, Temple in a City, and a new but promising mag Flight: A Literary Sampler. We also have started a new lit mag for kids (Nimblewitlit) and love the supportive community of mags like Little Thoughts Press.

DIAGRAM, Diode, Foglifter, American Poetry Review, Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Passages North, HAD, Black Warrior Review

Gob Pile Press
Burial Magazine
Back Patio Press
House of Vlad
Rejection Letters
Revolution John

I'm a big fan of Clarkesworld and Analog. I'm a hard sf gal at heart. I greatly respect Clarkesworld's grind on the submission front. I used to slush for them. I know Analog, Asimov's and F&SF are going through a rough patch. I hope it resolves and they rise like phoenixes.
Also a big fan of Little Blue Marble and Reckoning, two environmental justice focused publications that give content generously online or through their newsletters.
The Daily Tomorrow is a new publication I'm watching eagerly. It's scratching the itch left by the loss of Daily Science Fiction, but rather than flash pieces, they serialize a short story into daily bites each week.

Wiseblood Books
Brindabella Press
Angelico Press
Angus & Robertson
Duffy & Snellgrove
Recent Work Press
Text Classics
Metropolitan Review
Dappled Things Journal

34 Orchard and EIC Krsti Petersen Schoonover - Every poem and story is exceptional, there's no fluff. Kristi is also a talented writer herself.
Roadside Press and EIC Michele McDannold - Accessible poetry for every reader, and just darn good stuff. Michele (that's one L!) has created a community of poets at her press. She's an amazing poet and advocate for poetry.
Tupelo Press - Their commitment to not just publishing, but the art of poetry itself, is commendable. They have so many different projects and ways to interact with the press.
FlowerSong Press - With their focus on the borderlands and LatinX voices, they are publishing necessary voices. And the books are so good. They have a couple of imprints which are also doing great work.
Sibling Rivalry Press, Deep Vellum Publishing, Belle Points Press, Red Hen Press - so many great indie presses out there putting out amazing work

Strange Horizons, The Sun Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Speculative Verse, The McNeese Review, Oregon Humanities

We’re big fans of publishers like Fonograf Editions, Fence, and Diagram. Rose Metal Press and the University of Nebraska both have amazing anthologies that have done so much work to elevate hybrid writing.

Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, Boulevard, The Common, Willow Springs, Ploughshares, CRAFT, Passages North, Shenandoah, One Story, and so many more.

Split Lip, Wallstrait, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Trampset

Bellevue Literary Review, Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Belt Publishing, This Land

We're big fans of Uncanny, Radon, Small Wonders, and a really wide range of titles. There's never enough time to read them all.

I admire the business models of both Short Story (the Substack magazine edited by Palisatrium) and Raconteur Press. Each has found a way of making a revenue-sharing model into a practical reality, and they've both influenced my own approach.

Black Square Editions
BlazeVOX Books
Fence
Conjunctions
New American Writing
above/ground Press

I admire anyone who has been doing this for the long haul - some of the online zines have been at it for for ten, fifteen - even twenty years. I hope we have that kind of tenacity.

We like everyone. We really do. But a special shout out to Chestnut Review and Black Fork Review. We hosted a poetry reading together at AWP this year, and the editors, readers, and authors were amazing.

Breath & Shadow
Nine Mile
Stone Canoe
Autonomous
PANK
ANMLY
Black Lawrence
Finishing Line Press
Milkweed
Dodge Poetry
Foglifter
Graywolf
Copper Canyon
Granta
Kernpunkt
Nightboat
Porkbelly
Sarabande
Split Lip
Red Hed
River Teeth
Arsenal Pulp
Tiger Bark
The Sun
Main Street Rag
Tupelo
Unbound
Three Sylvias

We admire all of the indie lit and art mags out there-- this work is hard and often thankless (payless!), and building spaces for the world to share and be a part of art anyway is huge.
For specifics, some that we particularly admire are Buckman Journal and their very cool book vending machines, Maudlin House, and FENCE.

Here's a compilation from the editors (in no particular order): Smokelong, Wigleaf, Okay Donkey, Split Lip, Flash Frog, MoonPark, XRAY Literary Magazine, Fractured Lit, Milk Candy, Pithead Chapel, The Forge, BULL, Fictive Dream, Craft, among many others.

Griffith Review, The Sun, AGNI, Nautilus, Aeon, and I miss Creative Nonfiction!

Ecotone, One Story, New England Review, A Public Space

Cagibi, December, Orca, Bowery Gothic

We admire both the work of various print and digital magazines that we feel push the boundaries, both magazines that are currently running and ones that are no longer with us. An incomplete list: Cake Zine, Angel Food, Peach Mag, n + 1, Lux Magazine, Joyland, Shadowbanned, Caterpiller, Titmouse, Frank, and many many others.

Our partner magazine, Shenandoah, ranks high on our list of inspirations. Much of our work is only possible through their support, and we also draw strength from other African magazines that continue the vital work of archiving and expanding the African literary canon.

Literary magazines: The Sun, Gulf Coast, Words Without Borders, Asymptote, World Literature Today, The Paris Review, Poetry Northwest ... Publishers: Archipelago, New Directions, Entre Ríos Books, Deep Vellum, Open Letter, World Poetry Books, New York Review of Books ...

Oh man. I love The Dark, Old Gods of Appalachia, Pseudopod, Clarksworld, and Tor. And for dead publications, DAW and Vertigo put out such good stuff back in the day.

Well, we're a little biased, but we love Heart of Flesh Literary Journal--- this is our sister-site geared toward a more mature audience. Within literary magazine publications for teens and children, we are often inspired by how creative kids can be in magazines such as Stone Soup, and we aspire to be the Christian-version of Stone Soup one day.

New World Writing. Citywide Lunch. Pembroke Magazine. Reckon Review. Gargoyle.

The inspiration for redrosethorns publishing came from a publication called, 'All of It.' For smaller publications, I read Coffee and Conversations, Writerly Magazine, Feminist Spaces Journal, The Anti-Misogynist Club, and Rebelle Society. I am sure there are more, but this is all that comes to my mind at the moment. But I mostly read books, and am particularly obsessed with books on witches or witchcraft. It is the most fascinating part of history I have ever learned.

I admire Coffee and Conversations, Writerly Magazine, Feminist Spaces Journal, The Anti-Misogynist Club, Rebelle Society, and that's all I can think of at this moment.

11:11 Press
Calamari Press
Coffee House Press
Stalking Horse Press
Dorothy, a publishing project
7.13 Press
Conjunctions

I admire anyone who puts their heart into their work and dedicates the time to do a great job.

In terms of small presses publishing book and chapbook manuscripts, I'm most excited about Wendy's Subway, Dorothy, Arsenal Pulp, The Feminist Press, and LittlePuss. My main literary magazine rotation includes (but is not limited to!) Annulet, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing, Honey Literary, and A Velvet Giant.
Broadly, I'm a fan of publishers and works pushing literary/genre boundaries while maintaining rigor, quality, and commitment to craft.

That's like asking who my favorite musicians are. There are a great number of wonderful litzines to savor and explore. I mostly admire the ones who host the friendliest editors with true empathy towards writers. You can usually tell the sort of publication you are dealing with if the guidelines come across with snobbery. It's supposed to be fun and a welcome experience.

Indelible Literary Journal and Off Topic Publishing.

This feels like an impossible question —we admire so many literary magazines, which I suppose is the reason we exist: to be part of this community of writing. Here are a few we admire: Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Split Lip, The Citron Review, CRAFT, Cutleaf, The Offing, Gigantic Sequins, Fictive Dream, Joyland, Atticus Review, Black Warrior, Conjunctions, Blackbird, APR, Posit, Tiny Molecules... This is by no means an exhaustive list!

The Metropolitan Review, Apocalypse Confidential.

The Offing, Monkeybicycle, Maudlin House, HAD, Flash Fiction Online, Barrelhouse

Related to our area (crime, mysteries, etc), I admire indie authors who have managed to amass a large audience of readers and who are able to make a living from their publishing, so authors such as Rachel McLean, Simon McCleave and JD Dalgleish. I also admire other indie presses who have published brilliant crime novels over the years, from the UK and in translation, publishers such as Orenda Books and Corylus Books. Crime fiction has a bit of a reputation (similar to romance) for being low-brow and non-literary but there are some very talented literary crime writers out there such as Chris Whitaker, Christopher Brookmyre, Graeme Macrae, Callum McSorley and Robbie Morrison.

I admire Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillwords, Rattle, Anti-Heroin Chic, Alien Buddha Press, Prolific Pulse Press, Paddler Press, Literary Revelations, Experiments in Fiction, Anxiety Press, Spartan Press, and many more.

I really like what is happening in the speculative fiction genre right now. The "old favorites" Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Asimovs, are all publishing terrific stuff, but there's some newer publishers that I seem to go back to regularly like New Myths and Haven Spec. The magazines using the graphics and visual presentations in new and innovative ways are an inspiration. Club Chicxulub is also pointing the way to including audio and it is very exciting. The re-emergence of sword & sorcery as a genre is just fun. (We don't publish S&S, but we love to read it.) When I read the newer authors in the other magazines, and when we review our submissions together, it also seems that the overall level of writing has improved with the diversity of voices represented over the last few years. I never think of any of these magazine as competition in any way: the more the merrier!

We love all the publications out there, but to name a few, Raw Lit, Stripes Literary, FLARE, Exposed Bone, JAKE, and many others

We love other small presses--especially ones in the DC, Maryland and Virginia area.

Moonstruck Books was inspired by two small presses: McSweeney’s Books and McNally Editions. McSweeney’s started as a literary magazine founded by Dave Eggers, with the aim of publishing excellent fiction considered “too weird” to be accepted anywhere else. Likewise, McNally Editions publishes exquisitely designed revivals of “forgotten gems” of literature.

We admire Mercer University Press, Restless Books, Fuze Publishing, and so many more presses. A few literary journals we admire are Cowboy Jamboree, Paris Review, and Southern Literary Review, and so many others!

Nosy Crow, Bloomsbury, Macmillan,

We are great fans of Mslexia. This imprint is about women writing about and for women. For Mslexia readers in fact.

Foreshadow, The Future Fire, Strange Horizons, Fiyah, khoréo magazine?, and of course our sibling publications Escape Pod, Podcastle, Catscast and Pseudopod

We love publications where worlds have been very carefully built.

NUNUM, Smokelong, Maudlin House, ergot, MetaStellar, Seize the Press, The Drabblecast, XRAY, The Dark, Creepypasta, Dark Horses, Last Girls Club, Does It Have Pockets, Tales to Terrify, Bloodletter Magazine, NECKSNAP Magazine, Cul de sac of Blood, Fraidy Cat Quarterly, Swamp Pink, Bending Genres, Trampset, Wallstrait, Craft, Kinpaurak.

I love the publications Nowhere Girl Collective and Bodilyfluids.org

The Dark, Skull & Laurel, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, khoréo, Diabolical Plots, Nightmare

Expat Press
Apocalypse Confidential
Donotsubmit.net
Misery Tourism
Farewell Transmission
Hobart Pulp

Seize The Press, Chthonic Matter, Fence, Vastarien, New Sinews, 3:AM Magazine, Word For / Word, New Directions, NYRB, Two Dollar Radio, Apocalypse Party, CLOAK, Always Crashing, Tragickal, Coffee House Press, Dorothy: A Publishing Project, NOON, Astrophil Press, New World Writing, Black Sun Lit, The Dalkey Archive Press, Deep Vellum, Boiler House Press, Erratum Press, Tartarus, OOMPH Press, Lanternfish, Whiskeytit, Kernpunkt, 11:11 Press.

Publishers: 404 Ink, Penguin, Canongate, Aphrodite
Publications: Gutter Magazine

"The Infographic Guide to American Government" by Carissa Lytle and Jara Kern (Simon and Schuster)
"For Which We Stand" - Jeff Foster (Scholastic)
"How to be an American" - Silvia Hidalgo (Abrams Image)

Asymptote, Buenos Aires Poetry, Códice, Fence, The Brooklyn Rail.

Poets & Writers, Smithsonian Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and National Geographic.

Orion, Kenyon Review, Whale Road Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Lunch Ticket among many, many others.

Any magazines that invite and go the extra mile for experimental work. I tried to do this for Black Warrior Review, when I worked there (much love for them!). DIAGRAM does this, too. Ghost Proposal!
All the journals and presses also welcoming to computational and computer-generated work: MIT Press, Ensemble Park, AI Literary Review, Taper, Trick House Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, and many others.

SARKA, The Kingfisher Magazine, SUNHOUSE Literary

We are great fans of very established print avenues (such as the British publication Stand Magazine), relatively recent online ones (such as 'Wild Court', hosted by King's College London), and avenues that seek out voices beyond the margins (such as 'Tint Journal').

The Best Women's Erotica Anthology Series (ed. by Rachel Kramer Brussel), Aurore, Literotica, Rattle, The Sun, The New Yorker, One Story

We enjoy the work from "Poets & Writers" and "Artforum." Publishing takes more courage in 2025 than it ever has and we certainly admire all who still love magazines! The market has changed dramatically and trends happen at lightning speed - modern publishers are heroes.

I particularly admire independent publishers and presses. People who devote their lives to support new writers and new writing, taking operational and financial risk to develop new voices. The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) deserves special mention here for convening a supportive and loving environment between small publishers. Each day I open up my computer to letters of support from other small presses, all sharing experiences and advice on a range of issues from rights, accounting, publishing, to tech.

Literary magazines such as Places, Aeon, and Emergence Magazine regularly come up in discussion, as do Brittle Paper, and Isele Magazine. Our sister publications Lolwe and Jalada also deserve a mention for their efforts pan-Africa.

Many of the 572 authors who've written for Panorama have also written for household names such as the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, and the Guardian. Essays in Panorama have appeared in curated lists such as those by Longreads, featuring alongside work from Condé Nast Traveler, Harper’s Magazine, and others.

Reading interests of our authors span the gamut of genres from nonfiction (86.1%), fiction (72.8%), poetry (64.6%), to short-form/flash works (58.2%). Their writing interests naturally follow with our authors writing nonfiction (85.4%), short-form/flash works (56.1%), poetry (54.1%), and fiction (49.0%).

We're delighted when authors we've published feature in other journals or in other formats. Many have published manuscripts through imprints such as:

Bodleian Library
Canongate Books
HarperCollins
Icon Books
Jantar Publishing
Mad Creek Books
Mariner Books
Mountaineers Books
Penguin Random House
Salt Publishing
Sourcebooks Landmark
University of Georgia Press
Vintage
William Morrow and Company

We have a virtual bookstore on our site to help authors on Panorama’s masthead and their indie (or larger) publishers promote their books. Literary citizenship is especially important to us so if small presses would like to be listed here please do be in touch.

On the practical side of travel, there are myriad travel books publishers such as the Bradt guides that are so helpful.

A list of admired publishers would be remiss not to include stalwarts such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Granta that crossover to wider groups and something we all strive for.

My bookshelves are filled with historians, philosophers, and more—reflecting a trend amongst our authors interested not only in literature, but also art (76.7%), film (76.0%), theatre (67.1%), music (67.1%), and more.

I have a range of artist books from Yan Wang Preston to Yukari Chikura, exhibition catalogues to a range of others from:

Aperture
Art Africa
Dewi Lewis
Mack Books
Phaidon
Steidl
Thames & Hudson

DIAGRAM, 128 Lit, Cupboard Pamphlets, The Arkansas International, Short Story Advent Calendar

Many! Here are some: swamp pink, Story, Hudson Review, Split Lip Magazine, Sewanee Review, Cincinnati Review

Joan, Prototype, Boilerhouse Press, Carcanet, The Wire, Singing Apple Press, Bread & Roses Press, Hello America Stereo Cassette, Geographic North, Guillemot Press, Emergence Magazine, Poetry Birmingham, PN Review.

Prosetrics Literary Magazine
Raw Lit
Dear Booze
Epistemic Lit
Spillwords Press
Literary Revelations

As a publisher I am always looking at the works of other small presses because we all work so hard. I am really into Forest Avenue Press, Microcosm Publishing, Sublunary Editions, Autofocus Books, Malarky, and Lit Fox Books.

For independent lit mags, we love The Sun, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Unwoven Literary, Mulberry Literary, Allium Journal, Brink Literary, Adroit Journal, Torch Literary Arts, American Chordata, and Identity Theory.
For publishers & presses, we love Feminist Press, Coffee House Press, New Directions, and Deep Vellum Publishing.

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Phases Magazine, Hot Pot Magazine, Seaside Gothic, Sunhouse Literary, The Kingfisher Magazine, Tin House, Cunning Folk, Midsummer Magazine, Folklore Review, Fangoria, and The Stinging Fly. I admire their content, their curation, their aesthetics, and their legacies.

The Sun, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Gargoyle

I really admire The Bombay Literary Magazine because it does such a great job of showcasing contemporary Indian voices—it feels so close to home and inspiring. Then there’s The Paris Review, which has this timeless quality in the way it tells stories. I love how it balances being classic and modern at the same time. And honestly, Scroll.in is so cool too - it’s amazing how they blend literature with current events so seamlessly. They all bring something unique to the table, and the Cawnpore learn a lot from their work.

PANK!
The Rumpus
McSweeney's
Black Girl Dangerous
Queen Mob's Teahouse
The Racket Journal
Subtropics
Invisible City
Saw Palm

Some of our favourite publishers here in Ireland include SEED: Objects of Wonder Journal, Banshee Press, Aimsir Press and Skein Press. Internationally, a wealth of journals and small presses focused on nature, place and ecological thought – Hazel Press, The Willowherb Review and Orion to name a few – have offered inspiration for our work.

Kweli, F(r)iction, Barrelhouse, Weird Lit Magazine, #Ranger Magazine, ANMLY, Taco Bell Quarterly, All Existing, Booth, Poetry International, New Letters, Driftwood,
Shift: A Journal of Literary Oddities, Story Unlikely

Poetry Daily, Graywolf Press, American Short Fiction, Paris Review, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review

You can find me lost in the web page of Poetry Foundation, Chestnut Review, and Lolwe. I love speculative writing, so I like FIYAH and Strange Horizons.

Baffler, Fitzcarraldo, OR Books, Anarchist Review of Books

Marble Press publishes highly selected books for young readers. We strive to provide child-friendly stories that emphasize different aspects like social-emotional learning, STEM and improving literacy skills. We also plan to publish "craft" books. Marble Press loves early-reader and middle-grade graphic novels.

There's so many great indie magazines and presses, it's hard to choose! I admire every publisher who is doing the work to support writers and artists. Split Lip Magazine publishes incredible work and supports their writers in multiple ways. Pithead Chapel publishes gutsy, haunting pieces and they're always free to submit to. Presses like rinky dink press work hard to make accessible, pocket-sized literature.

Volt, BOMB, Ugly Duckling's Second Factory.

We love Diagram, SmokeLong, Black Warrior Review, X-R-A-Y, and Scaffold Lit!

We admire a lot of the classic traditional publishing houses that work closely with their authors and that publish in a variety of genres. Many of these have long since been acquired by the large publishing houses, but it is a model that our publishing house adheres to.

McSweeney's, Humor Me Magazine, The Onion

New Millennium Writings, Graywolf, Sibling Rivalry Press, Barrelhouse, DIAGRAM, Saddle Road Press, Alice James Books, Tor.com, Broken Sleep Books

Chronogram magazine tops our list of ezines and print - they are smart, fun, and support local and amateur writers and poets. We also like Poetry magazine and Rattle and of course, we utilize Poets & Writers. We've recently discovered Night Owl Narrative published by Cajun Mutt Press.

We value Harbor Reviews' work as well as that of publications and literary enterprises like Acropolis Journal & The Poetry Question for their inclusive work and thought provoking publication of poetry and, for the latter, reviews!

There are a few other cozy fantasy magazines out there that we like: Heartlines Spec, Wyngraf, and Tales & Feathers. We also really enjoy New Maps and Inner Worlds.

River Teeth/Beautiful Things
Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
Milk Candy Review
The Rumpus
Split Lip
BULL
SugarSugarSalt

The Paris Review

Small Beer Press, Seven Seas Entertainment, Queen of Swords Press

As a French editor and publisher, I admire many French publications such as Cathy Garcia's Nouveaux délits, or Patrice Maltaverne's Traction-Brabant. There would be more to cite including Swiss and Belgian publications, but I don't think Duotrope's English speaking audience would find it quite interesting. The journal that I did most admire a few years ago was Magnapoets, edited by Aurora Antonovic. It amazed me that she decided to take the reverse path many publications took in the 2000s: from on line to print publication. This was courageous and time proved her right.
Many on line publications also have an impact on the way I now publish Datura, Beakful, and Urtica. The Centrifugal Eye, E'ratio, poeticdiversity, SubtleTea, and so many more.

Wigleaf, -ette, Moon City Review, Booth, Boudin, Ghost Parachute, Bending Genres, 7x7 LA

There are so many brilliant and beautiful publications. I'm particularly drawn to those with diverse, curious, wondrous offerings. Some that quickly come to mind include Emergence Magazine, Aeon, Geez, Thrush, The Hopper, Sheila-Na-Gig, Kosmos, About Place Journal, Deep Times, Tinderbox, Gyroscope Review, MacGuffin, Thimble, Waging Nonviolence, Presence, and Gratefulness.

We love other literary-forward journals like Muumuu House, Adroit Journal, Granta, Hobart, Wigleaf, Guernica, Forever Magazine

As far as publishers we love who are doing a similar thang, Reckoning, Bracken, Willows Wept, and Ecotone come to mind. But many of the publishers we love most aren’t doing what we (or anybody else) are doing—and that’s what we love about them.

New Directions
Blaze Vox
Spuyten Duyvil
City Lights

Virtually every publication we originally aspired to be like has unfortunately ceased publication. Such publications have included The Toast, The Awl and Man Repeller. More recently, we are fans of Hobart and Dirt.

Spellbinder, Radon Journal, Berlin lit, Broken Antler, Livina Press and many, many more.

Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, The Sun, Strange Horizons, Asimov's

Transit Books, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Coach House Books, Coffee House Press

We admire the work of local small presses who focus on publishing a diverse range of voices including CavanKerry, Poets Wear Prada, Pink Trees Press, Get Fresh Books, and Paterson Literary Review.

There a number of other small publishers who have a similar goal to ours, namely celebrating and reviving the old-fashioned paperback crime fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. For instance, Stark House has done some terrific books, and Centipede Press. In the magazine world, I'm thrilled that ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE is still publishing (non-stop since 1941!).

Trash Wonderland, Roi Faineant, Sage Cigarettes, Manic Pixie Magazine, Bullshit Lit, Angel Rust Magazine, Weird Girl Magazine, Sad Girl Review.

Clarkesworld, Atomic Carnival

Third Wednesday, Dunes Review, Peninsula Poets, and Walloon Writers Review

N/A

Emergence
Kosmos
Yes!
Orion

Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

I don't have any special favorites, but I do admire companies like Severed Head Press, and others that have given writers a chance to see their work published.

Publications I admire include Chicago Review, New England Review, The Poetry Project Newsletter, A Public Space, Denver Quarterly (I was on staff for five years and I love it dearly!), The Carolina Quarterly, baest, Contemporaries AtPost45, Ecotone, and both Changes Review and Press. Presses include Action Books, Rescue Press, Fonograf Editions, The Song Cave, Spiral Editions, DoubleCross Press, Dorothy: a publishing project, Futurepoem, 1080 Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, and Unicorn Press. And of course there's more...

Meat for Tea, After Diner Conversations, Poppy Road Review, Iceblink, Wilderness House Review, Wordpeace, Synkroniciti, The Bluebird Word, Impspired, Dopwn in the Dirt, Five Minutes, many others

Rewrite the Stars Review, Allium Journal, New Orleans Review, Black Fox Literary, and Same Faces Collective.

I'm not going to lie, we exist in somewhat of a bubble, but if I had to drop a name or two, I would say pif or mad swirl.

Rewrite The Stars Review

Salamander, Zoetrope, the Paris Review, Copper Canyon Press, Copper Nickel, Ecco, Ecotone, Subtropics, Acre Books, Cincinnati Review, VQR, Kenyon Review, Red Hen Press

I admire the obvious choices of The New Yorker, Granta, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Harpers... but also Barcelona Review, Thuglit, Narrative Magazine, storySouth, Carve, failbetter, and many others who continue to raise the profile of online literature. I take great pride in whatever extent to which Eclectica can be considered part of that company.

We particularly like The Offing, Birdfeast, Tinderbox, and Adroit.

Burning Deck, Mud Luscious Press, and the Gordon Lish-edited Quarterly, all now defunct, alas, nevertheless still inspire us. As for contemporary journals, we admire Conjunctions, Diagram, Fence, Noon, Salt Hill, and Black Warrior Review, among others.

We also love many other small presses with big ideas, especially FC2, Stalking Horse Press, Anti-Oedipus Press, Black Square Editions, Bellevue Literary Press, Dzanc Books, Essay Press, Europa Editions, Graywolf Press, Haymarket Books, AK Press, Les Figues Press, Letter Machine Editions, McSweeney's, Milkweed Editions, New Directions, Nightboat Books, Noemi Press, Omnidawn, Open Letter Books, Archipelago Books, Verso Books, Belladonna Collaborative, BOA Editions, Counterpoint Press, Soft Skull Press, Coffee House Press, Copper Canyon Press, Dalkey Archive Press, Future Tense Books, Dorothy (a publishing project), Sarabande, Wave Books, Wesleyan University Press, Outpost19, Deep Vellum Publishing, Ravenna Press, and 7.13 Books.

X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Stereogum, HAD,Thought Catalog

Blackbird; Fence; Conduit; Smokelong Quarterly; BOMB, Granta, Denver Quarterly; Carve

Honestly, nobody does what we do. We are a genre unto ourselves. "Short stories that ask ethical questions." This is great in that we have a very unique niche, but terrible because we get so many great submissions that aren't the type of thing we publish. We tell people over and over again, we want, "The Trolley Problem" in short story form. If you go to our website, you can get a free sample magazine to better understand what we publish.

There are millions of publications that we look up to and appreciate the mission and activities of, especially those working to uplift marginalized or, in any way, oppressed groups (including, but not limited to, young voices, LGBTQ+ artists, women, creators with disabilities, and writers from marginalized ethnic or social groups), and endorse inclusivity. From this point of view, we particularly admire Rewrite The Stars Review, Blossom Magazine (and Youth4Arts Organization), Polyphony Lit, K'in Literary Journal, verum literary press, Pollux Journal, beestung, The Afterpast Review, The Stirling Review, Bending Genres, Angel Rust, and more. Our editorial team also loves reading The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post, but the editor-in-chief's all-time favorite has always been The New Yorker!

In addition to the usual prestige genre publications too well known to require listing by name yet again, I admire Metaphorosis, Sci Phi Journal, The Future Fire, and The Fabulist.

The Barcelona Review, The Stinging Fly, Granta Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Atticus Review—there are many admirable platforms, print and ezine, publishing good material.

We're big fans of online literary journals like SWWIM, Stirring, Thimble, Brevity, Rogue Agent, Rise Up Review, Cotton Xenomorph, Right Hand Pointing, Waxwing, Tinderbox, The Adroit Journal, The Lascaux Review, The Rumpus, and many, many more.

I'm super interested in the small press in general. The Big Five publishers have been cannibalizing themselves, gobbling up and merging imprints, trying to do more with fewer editors, and it's taking its toll. We hear about this all the time in our lit agent interview series on the Chopping Blog. Meanwhile, the small press is rising, both in terms of success and proliferation, and also in how many small presses are accounted for in big awards nominations like the Booker Prizes. But of the many small presses, I personally have my eye on ECW, which is one of the most successful in Canada. I've queried them with two of my own manuscripts!

Hobart, Brevity, Hippocampus, Rejection Letters, Daily Drunk, X-Ray, Gone Lawn, Points in Case, Hash

I love Rattle, Ecotone, The Hopper, and Terain.org but there are so many more!

We admire literary small presses from university press to "major" independent small presses from Red Hen, Unnamed Press, Graywolf to our fellow presses in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area including SFWP, Alan Squire Publishing, and more!

Dalkey Archive Press
Prolit (Philadelphia)
The Shoutflower

Zoetrope: All-Story
Cincinnati Review

There are so many great ones out there! But if pressed to name some favorites: F(r)iction, Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Split Lip, and Barrelhouse publish the type of stuff we love to read.

Harper’s magazine, Ploughshares, Cha (an Asian Literary Magazine) & Kitaab.

American Anthropologist, Sapiens

Punk Noir Magazine , Piker Press, , Cross Roads Magazine, The Dope Fiend Daily, The Abyss, Six Foot Swells , Under The Bleachers , San Pedro River Review, Red Fez, Mojave River Review, Epic Rites Press, Black Shamrock Magazine, Lucifers Retreat, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Fearless Poetry Zine, Fixator Press, Medusa's Kitchen, Heathen Sail Magazine,Black Circle Publishing,

The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books

Since the beginning, I and the staff have been heavily inspired by the optimism of high school and undergraduate literary magazines. Aside from those, I look up to Shenandoah and the Oxford American, as well as my friends that I've met through the online litmag community.

Northern New England Review, Syncopation Literary Journal, The Twin Bill, Juke Joint, Westchester Review, Atlantic Northeast Magazine, Floyd County Moonshine, Philadelphia Stories, The Greensboro Review, Farmer-ish.

West Trade Review
The Militant Grammarian
Tangled Locks Journal
A Thin Slice of Anxiety
The Collidescope

Gulf Coast, New South, Storm Cellar--we feel a special connection to all the outlets hoping to strengthen the literary character of their home regions while they seek to build bridges with the larger national and international writing communities.

The Evergreen Review
Split Lip Magazine
The Paris Review
Chicago Review of Books
TOLKA
Cleveland Review of Books
Jellyfish Review
Lunate

Mystery Scene
The New Yorker
Slightly Foxed
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (our sister publication)

The number and diversity of publications that exist now could keep a reader occupied for weeks. Doubly Mad is itself an example of this diverse growth. I tend to prefer smaller journals that are working to establish their own niche. The major journals do not offer work that resonates with me. The issues of Poetry, for instance, tend be disappointing. That said, my co-editor, Ruth Dandrea, has a real fondness for Alaska Quarterly Review. I enjoy a publications called Nine Mile Magazine, Hole in the Head Review, and also Rust+Moth. They favor poetry that is weighted toward strong use of imagery, with a musicality to the language.

Milkweed
Farrar Strauss & Giroux
Knopf
Riverhead
Europa

MacQueen's Quinterly, Flash Boulevard, Maissoneuve, Bending Genres, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Miramichi Reader, The Journal of Radical Wonder, Cleaver, Unbroken, New Flash Fiction Review, Geist, Subterrain

The Southern Review and Taco Bell Quarterly.

The Common
New Ohio Review
Thrush Poetry Journal
HUSK
Southern Indiana Review
Dreich
New England Review
Salamander
The Rumpus
Pleiades
Neologism Poetry Journal
Fractured Lit
Ghost Parachute
Scoundrel Time

Horror Tree's Trembling With Fear editorial team loves all forms of speculative fiction, from horror to fantasy to science fiction. We also have multiple editors to truly embrace every form. We're primarily supporters of indie presses, so publishers such as Cemetery Dance Publications, Eerie River Publishing, Crystal Lake Publishing, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Brigids Gate Press, and Black Spot Books. As an ongoing market, we have nothing but love for others that have stood the test of time, such as Electric Spec Magazine, The Quiet Ones, Escape Pod, and Apex Magazine.

Poetry Pacific, Blue Light Press, Caveat Lector

Prairie Voices

Not One of Us; Omenana; Strange Horizons; The Dark; Apex Magazine; Sein und Werden.

Guernica, Afreada, Wired, Lithub.

The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, Image, Ecotone

We love Hayden's Ferry Review, The Albion Review, Antithesis, The Susquehanna Review, Equinox Literary Magazine, and Quarto. As for publishers, we especially admire Milkweed Editions and Copper Canyon Press.

We keep coming back to books put out by Graywolf Press, Milkweed Press, Boa Editions, Coffee House Press, Rose Metal Press, Black Lawrence, Red Hen, and so many others!
Current publications we love include The American Poetry Review,The Cincinnati Review, Gulf Coast, The Paris Review, On Being, The Normal School, World Literature Today, Poetry, Alaska Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, New Ohio Review, The Offing, Scoundrel Time, Words Without Borders, Guest House, Blackbird, Thrust, One Art, Unbroken.

Poetica, Blue Unicorn, Jewish Literary Journal, The Lyric, Finishing Line Press

The Paris Review
Bomb
Granta
New Directions
City Lights

SmokeLong Quarterly, AGNI, L'Espirit Review, Granta, Puerto del Sol

Passages North, Hobart, Carve, A Public Space, Harper's, Featherproof Books, Dzanc Books (&Catapult), Tyrant Books

Uncanny Magazine, Clarksworld, Tor.com, Escape Artists (EscapePod/PseudoPod/PodCastle)

Plough; Ekstasis; Christianity Today

We are big fans of The MacGuffin.

We're always impressed by what Graywolf, Milkweed, and Coffee House are up to

Ecotone, Orion, Kenyon Review, Milkweed, Restless Books, Norton, Graywolf, Catapult, Conjunctions, Split Rock, Terrain.org, The Fourth River

Simultaneous Tims, Mocha Memoirs Press, Nightmare Press, Atlantean Publishing, Aurealis Science Fiction & Fantasy

There are a lot of niche publishers in the military and security-themed space, past and present, whose work we read with great interest. Osprey is one that comes to mind, but we love to be surprised by books on subjects that fascinate us from small publishers who took a chance on something.

Ugh, I hate to admit I don't read magazines anymore. I loved the old Maxim and Spy magazines. Seventeen has been surprising and cutting edge lately. I've read news stories about them. Not a subscriber. Grim magazine on Blurb has some good issues. I often look to them for formatting and organizational inspiration. Hellebore's layouts and images are gorgeous, but the articles read like historical book reports.

publications: The Paris Review, The Rumpus, The Sun, Iowa Review, New Letters, Lilith, A Public Space, Michigan Quarterly Review, Granta, Guernica, LitHub, Bellevue Literary Review, Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Electric Lit, New England Review, Massachusetts Review
Presses: University of Nebraska/Massachusetts/Iowa/Northwestern/Missouri/Trinity/California/West Virginia/Wayne State/Alabama/Georgia presses, Copper Canyon, Kerpunkt, Coffee House, Graywolf, Split/lip, Red Hen, Alice James, City Lights, Sarabande, Dorothy, BOA, Night Boat

Publishers: Pro Se Press, Dark Oak Media, Seventh Star Press, Arkham House Publishing, Dingbat Publishing, Hit World Press
Publications: Shelter of Daylight, The Fifth Di..., Martian Wave

New Yorker
Poetica Magazine
Graywolf Press
Fourway Books

Brittle Paper and CRAFT Literary are my biggest inspirations.

We love the work of fellow zine-makers Door Ajar, Georgie Mac, and so many folks from Edinburgh Zine Library and Glasgow Zine Library. Gender Shit also make incredible zines!

Gargoyle, Paris Review, The Shore, Schuykill Valley Journal, Beltway Poetry Review, Delmarva Review, Delaware Poetry Review, Dreamstreets, The Common, EOAGH, Little Patuxent Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Sixth Finch, The Scores, Whale Road Review, Foglifter

Radon's largest inspirations are Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, AK Press, and Graywolf Press. As a unique mix of speculative and progressive, we take cues from publishers who are independent and radical in their niches. AK Press taught us that anarchist publishers can find success and an audience in the literary world. Graywolf showcased talented editorial independence, a non-profit ethos, and genre-defying literature. Clarkesworld and Strange Horizons demonstrated to the world what professional online science fiction magazines can look like at the highest level.

I adore other publications that commit themselves to publishing literary speculative fiction that's bold and experimental. My favorites would probably be Strange Horizons and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. In the flash fiction space, I love Flash Fiction Online and Daily Science Fiction. What I really adore are places that are welcoming to fiction that's both literary and speculative in quality. There does seem to be a long-standing rift between literary fiction and speculative fiction that discourages literary fiction from venturing into weirder and more bizarre territory while discouraging speculative fiction from focusing clearly on people and relationships, instead of gadgets and adventures. I love lush, lyrical writing - you don't have to be Shakespeare, but I appreciate those who pay attention to craft and sentence structure. I appreciate Strange Horizons in particular for how it emphasizes lucid, poetic writing and experimental formats, combined with devastating character-driven storytelling.

Grimoire
Ghost Story
Pseudopod
Periodical, Forlorn
The Dark Magazine

Vastarien, Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny, FIYAH, PseudoPod, Orion.

I love The Hot Sheet by Jane Friedman; C. Hope Clark's Funds for Writers newsletter; The New Yorker; The Paris Review . . . so many others!
I've had a blast watching the hybrid She Writes Press take the publishing world by storm, and love presses like Algonquin.

We aim to create a great networking opportunity for writers and a community that embraces multicultural differences, brave voices, unique writers, and extraordinary artistic approaches to story writing.
LISP looks for diverse talent, unheard stories, artistic approaches to the storytelling and experimental brave work as well as the stories that hone the classics and the traditions of writing forms.
We do have a great variety of writers on our longlists; both emerging and accomplished ones are able to make it there due to our unique jury board and multi-levelled scoring system. London Independent Story Prize publishes the interviews with all of these writers, we highly recommend everyone to read them. You'll see what other writers do, how they succeed when they struggle and what they do to overcome the challenges of writing. LISP values each writer no matter where they are in their career. We are always looking for new talent, just polish those stories and send them to us.

I don't really have time to read other publications as we are so busy with our own projects

DIAGRAM, Spork Press, Black Warrior Review, Seneca Review, Indiana Review, The Volta, Ploughshares, Tin House, Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, Prairie Schooner, Fairy Tale Review, Missouri Review, Unstuck, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Fence

Atlantic Monthly, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Hunger Mountain, Kenyon Review, Paris Review.

American Sociological Review, The University of Chicago Press, Perspectives on Sexual & Reproductive Health, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Marriage & Sexuality, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Anthropology Today, Feminist Review, Harvard International Review, European Addiction Research, Gender & Society, Counterpoints, Contemporanea, etc.

I love the work that Rattle does. It feels like they really just want to support and promote a wide range of poetry and poets. Press 53 has beautiful books, both inside and out. I've actually rarely come across a professional (in the broad sense) publisher that wasn't doing something cool and intriguing!

Some of the most vital work in contemporary literature is being published by relatively small non-profit presses, such as Alice James Books, Sarabande Books, Milkweed Editions, Wave Books, and many others.

Unthank, Cut, Bloomsbury,

Journals and magazines that value innovation and experimental writing, including but not limited to:
DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Bennington Review, The Offing, Black Warrior Review, New Delta Review, Booth, Storm Cellar, Cream City Review, The Adroit Journal, Puerto del Sol, Bat City Review, and Fourteen Hills.

Ellipsis Zine, Milk Candy Review, (mac)ro(mic), X-R-A-Y, Molotov Cocktail, to name a few.

The Alipore Post
Muse India
Rattle
Ink, Sweat and Tears

I admire any small press publisher. As Stephen King once said: 'What would we do without the little magazines?'

American Short Fiction, Booth, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Ecotone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, New Delta Review, Paper Darts, Public Space, Redivider, Wigleaf, Zyzzyva, and so many more.

I am always stretched for time, but I try to stay current with a few different publications: Guernica, Catapult, Honey Literary, The Believer, Diagram. I obviously love Barrelhouse, and I am very impressed by their conference in addition to their journal.

Thrush, Rust + Moth, Ekphrastic Review, Visual Verse, Mom Egg Review, Red Fern Review

SmokeLong Quarterly. Pidgeonholes. Split Lip, Atticus Review. Etc.

As a small independent press, I admire other small independents such as Scribe Publishing, CamCat Books, and Cardinal Rule Press.

Rattlesnake Press, Carolina Quarterly, and Apricity Press

Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, Booth, Moist Poetry Journal, X-R-A-Y, Southern Indiana Review, The Fiddlehead, Sixth Finch . . . and so many more!

Bewildering Stories for its feedback to authors.
Verse Virtual for its openness to poets.
Glenn Lyvers at Prolific Press for developing fiction writers and poets.

We enjoy reading articles in magazines as such as Writers Magazine, and on-line Writing sites like Myslexia. It's so helpful to be reminded of the 'rules' of writing from time to time.

So many! Alaska Quarterly Review, DIAGRAM, Black Warrior Review, NOON, The Forge, Superstition Review, STORY, Uncharted, Post Road, The Common, PANK, Booth, Fiction International, Harvard Review, Cafe Irreal, Chicago Review, The White Review, Conjunctions, Hotel, Crazyhorse, X-R-A-Y Lit, Gulf Coast, Juked, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Yalobusha Review, Threepenny Review, New Delta Review, Phantom Drift, Salt Hill, Smokelong Quarterly, TriQuarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, New Orleans Review, Naugatuck River Review all come to mind.

Defenestration magazine, Quill & Crow Publishing, Right Hand Pointing, Unbroken Journal, One Sentence Poems

There are many great publications out there we admire. Locally we love Howl, World Split Open, and San Pedro River Review.

I really like what Death's Head Press is doing with their Splatter Western line. It shows great branding, and as a customer/reader, I know the type of literature I am going to get from them. I also admire Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. Max Booth III and Lori Michelle have raised the bar with publishing horror and when I created Timber Ghost Press, I used them as a role model.

Penguin Publishers

TOUGH, Pulp Modern, Rock and a Hard Place, Mystery Magazine

The world of literary sports is small but there are some great places out there. The Under Review does a great job with a much wider scope than we have. Whenever something doesn't quite fit baseball-wise (see: softball stories) I try to send them to The Under Review.

Poetry Magazine, Tin House, Popshot, Cream City Review, Santa Clara Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, The Believer

Cavar: My favorites include Split Lip Magazine, COAST | noCOAST, Strange Horizons, Honey Literary, Whale Road Review, and Bodega Magazine. We also love our literary friends at perhappened, Mixed Magazine, opia Magazine, Delicate Friend, and Hooligan Magazine (and many more).

So many amazing horror fiction podcasts out there these days, and such a supportive community. Big fan of NoSleep, Pseudopod/Escape Artists and Drabblecast, among others. Also a huge fan of Dark Matter Magazine. Such a fantastic new publication.

Split Lip, Button Poetry, and Tolsun Books are each offer unique perspectives and gut-wrenching insights on emotion.

CarpeArt Journal ( Singapore)
Indian Periodical ( India)
Setu Journal
Art: Mag
Mad Swirl
Granfalloon (Canada)
Philadelphia Stories
Zin Daily (Croatia)

365 Tomorrows, Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons

Tor, Erewhon Books, CLASH Books, Crone Girls Press, Small Beer Press, Dzanc Books

I have deep admiration for the other little indie lit magazines trying to grow a following. I particularly love The Mark Literary Review. Jessica, their editor, is fantastic. Little indie magazines not supported by schools or large endowments are publishing really important stuff and giving voice to so many writers who are doing unique stuff. Other magazines I've been enjoying lately are: Salt Hill Journal, Midwest Review, Hell is Real, Ekstasis Magazine, Survivor Lit, and Amplify.

We love all Sherlock Holmes related publications. The traditional adventure series by Bonnie MacBird (4 books so far) is excellent - publisher is Collins Crime Club. In the USA Belanger Books are an emerging publisher with some great anthologies featuring Holmes too.

We're big admirers of our sister journal, So To Speak, and of many large and small publications. Our staff has fairly diverse tastes, and the common denominator is we all like writing that takes risks, tries new things, and moves us emotionally as well as intellectually. No art should be a purely cerebral endeavor. My personal favorites right now are the Southwest Review, F(r)iction, Bourbon Penn, and Deracine.

Publications that cater to a cause or niche like: National Geographic, On Mission, PawPrints, Zoetrope, Gourmet (when it was in circulation)

The Republic Magazine, Lolwe Magazine, Parresia Publishers, The Kalahari Review

Lots of them. So many publishers so little time. My favorite is usually the one I'm reading.

We love literary magazines that amplify a diversity of voices and narratives.

Can't think of any offhand. That's why I founded my own.

Way too many to name, and we're finding new ones all the time. Some I love are SWWIM Everyday, Whale Road Review, Perugia Press, Naugatuck River Review, Two Sylvias Press, Four Way Books, Pirene's Fountain, Tinderbox Review, New England Review, Post Road, Fence, Belladonna*, So to Speak, Smokelong Quarterly, and many more.

Boulevard, Conjunctions, Electric Lit, Expat, Fence, Hobart, NOON.

I love independent press. I love every single publication from the big pretentious ones with forty people on the masthead down to two kids passing out
photocopies in school. Everything from the twelve copy micro zine run through somebody's sewing machine though the ones with perfect machine binding
for sale in big box stores. I recently heard the phrase "Use your art to make a difference", and I feel people involved with indie press are doing just that.

American Short Fiction, Black Warrior Review, Booth, Copper Nickel, Foglifter, Joyland Magazine, Passages North, Split Lip Magazine, The Offing

We love Corvid Queen, the Ghastling, f(r)iction, Air and Nothingness Press, Coffin Bell, Hexagon SF Magazine, The Dark, Wrongdoing and so, so many others.

Booth, Ninth Letter, A Public Space, Cream City Review

I was recently on a panel with the EICs of Driftwood and 805 Lit -- both are two publications writers should consider! I miss Tin House dearly, am reading the Paris Review, Lit Hub, and the New Yorker as time permits to up my game. And, being that we publish health-related stories of vulnerable populations and those who care for them, I am always interested in what The Examined Life and The Intima are doing in my space.

I love the other presses that are promoting marginalized voices, especially VoiceCatcher, Cordella, and Sinister Wisdom.

The Paris Review, Dalkey Archive Press,
The Threepenny Review, Agni

We love all sorts of publications and from all our editors, Trampset (Skyler); Peach Mag, Cheap Pop, Lightspeed, CHEAP POP, [PANK], Ghost City Press, Fiyah, Fairytale Review, Cincinnati Review, (J.B.); Split Lip Mag, Maudlin House (Ben); Lazy Adventurer Publishing, Marías At Sampaguitas, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Ayaskala Mag, Timberline Review (Asela); Riggwelter (Ian). There are honestly i think thousands of places we could name between all of our editors let alone four of our own!

World Literature Today, Tin House, Paris Review, Descant, Granta

East of the Web has so many great stories on it, classics as well as new. Literally Stories is admirably consistent, and every story gets comments which is fantastic. TQR Stories has a wonderfully creative editorial process where you get a glimpse under the hood.

I admire the work of Wear Your Voice Magazine, Kweli Journal, Catapult and Electric Literature.

We are most taken with the works of poets and writers found in The Kenyon Review published at Kenyon College. The concept of The Awakenings Review was taken from its pages. We also admire The Sewanee Review published at The University of the South.

Ekstasis Magazine, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, The Cresset, Poems for Ephesians, Trinity House Review, Anser Journal

Smoke Long Quarterly - full of rich, flash fiction. Myslexia as a platform for women writers and the craft of writing. Fictive Dream for its contemporary lens on the human condition and dedication to the short story. Ad Hoc Fiction publishers for it’s support of debut writers and championing of short-form fiction.

In terms of books and fiction coverage, Paris Review, Literary Review, The New Yorker, Guardian Books, The New York Times Book Review.

PANK, Electric Literature, A Public Space, Asymptote, Tint, Jellyfish Review, Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, Split Lip, BOMB, The Rumpus, Hobart, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Willowherb Review, Flaneur, Dummy, Black Sun Lit (Vestiges), The Gravity of the Thing, Radioactive Moat, BOAAT, The Offing, Extra Teeth, and Tentacular, just to name a few. We love literary journals.

Waxwing
The Night Heron Barks
The Ekphrastic Review
Split Lip
Sixth Finch
Hobart
AGNI
Fractured Lit
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
The Adroit Journal
River Teeth
Brevity
Pithead Chapel
New World Writing
Flash Frontier
Okay Donkey

One World Press, because they take chances on their publications.
Hogarth Press, esp the rewriting of Shakespeare's plays as novels by some of the world's best writers.
Biteback Press, because it publishes exclusively on politics and it's pretty solid.

New England Review, The Threepenny Review, The Georgia Review, Guernica, Rattle

Graywolf Press, 11:11 Books, Rescue Press, Dzanc, Coffee House Books, FSG Originals, FC2, Black Lawrence Press, Black Ocean, Deep Vellum, Two Dollar Radio, Sarabande, and so many more

Sagging Meniscus Press, Melville House

Red Fez, Spillwords, Terror House Magazine, Visual Verse

Personally, I have found so much awesome in ORCA LIT. I can’t wait to get my hands on it every time a new issue comes out. ORCA was, in fact, the impetus for 34 ORCHARD—I stumbled across it while on a market search for my own stories, and I thought, ‘this is exactly what I’ve always wanted to do, and look…this can be done!’ I also enjoy HALFWAY DOWN THE STAIRS (I also found it while looking for markets for my own work). THE FICTION DESK—especially the ghost story anthologies—is another addiction for me. On the book side, I really like what Crystal Lake Publishing is putting out. Honestly, there are many lit mags I truly admire and read on a regular basis, but the ones I mentioned, at the moment, are my favorites.

Wigleaf, FRiGG, matchbook, Barrelhouse, Split Lip Magazine, Longleaf Review.

We admire and read so many journals! Some of our favorites: Smokelong Quarterly, Pidgeonholes, JMWW, Pithead Chapel, X-Ray, Lost Balloon, Craft, Jellyfish Review, The Forge, Atticus Review, Cease Cows, Cotton Xenomorph, Barren Magazine...I could list 100 more!

We enjoy a variety of writing and publications, but we're not particularly focused on the trends literary magazines take. However, such magazines as American Poetry Review, Granta, and Glimmer Train, which have presented quality work for many years, are magazines we admire.

Writers Digest, WriterMag, Poets & Writers, American Short Fiction

publications: barcelona review, granta, guernica, london review of books, unlikely stories, vilnius review, west coast wierd, téma, the writing disorder
publishers: coffee house press, fiction collective 2, future tense books, green integer, hawthorne books, perfect day publishing, poezija, red hen press, semiotext(e), tavern books, 2 dollar radio
& there are shite-tonnes of european presses that frequently do multilingual parallel text editions: druga pica, peter lang, zephyr press, & esp. europa editions—esp. their chapbooks for various literary festivals—being one of them...

I admire indie writers, self-publishers and publishers who follow their hearts instead of trends while still maintaining high publication standards.

Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, American Life in Poetry, Prairie Schooner.

There are so many great publications, but I'm truly excited about (and admire) the newer, up and coming Christian publications. Lost Pen Magazine has been around about as long as we have, and publishes work with a "clear Christ-centered theme" and features some fantastic work in both its digital journal and blog. Solum Literary Press is both a literary journal and small press "in the evangelical tradition" that is soliciting submissions for its first issue. Though they've only just begun, they are a promising publication and I can't wait to see what the future holds for them.

Other publications that accept teen writing: Adroit Journal, One Teen Story, Blue Marble Review, The Apprentice Writer, Parallax.

I admire the work of New Millennium, Ecotone, Catapult and A Public Space, McSweeney's and Black Warrior Review. But, really, since there are so many literary journals, I feel like I can discover more I like everyday, and more great writers featured within their pages. I also put a lot of stock in the full artistic culture of a journal, so I'm intrigued by publications like American Chordata--the photography and art mixed with the creative writing in the journal speaks to the fact that we are all artists and lit journals are venues that celebrate art.

I love the aesthetic of Waxwing Journal, the content of the Offing & the Adroit Journal, and of course, the New York Times Fiction & Poetry staff.

We love ANMLY, Versification, Hobart, Moonchild Magazine, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, The Acentos Review, The Adroit Journal, AGNI Magazine, Broadsided Press (these are just a few)--any lit magazine that taps into the experimental, provides different avenues of possibility, both for the work itself and for the writers, especially writers of color. We are especially excited by multilingual pieces / those that also engage with the environmental (we encourage writers to interpret this in many different ways, and which are not limited to environmental issues / concerns).
We also admire magazines that provide continued dialogues between a writer's work and provide a sense of collective community that goes beyond just the lit mag format (I'm thinking specifically of Broadsided Press, for their mission of bringing broadside collaborations out in the world, and Kissing Dynamite Press, for their openness with publishing experimental works that may not always fit the traditional "page" / alignment format (even if technology already inherently creates that difference ).

We are sponsored by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine and think it is the best magazine in the field. There are many other excellent publications, print and/or online that also publish science fiction and fantasy short fiction.

Wigleaf, Pithead Chapel, Fictive Dream, Spelk Fiction, Ellipsis Zine, Frigg

Story, The Sun, Narrative, Glimmer Train (RIP), Missouri Review, McSweeneys and many others...

Strange Horizons, Tachyon Publications, PM Press, Manic D Press, Shareable Magazine, Dark Horse Comics, Lightspeed, Interzone, Image Comics, Netflix (as a story cultivator and curator), Tor ... we also love the output of mainstream publishers of genre and New Wave works from the '60s and '70s, and the great indie comics publishers of the '80s and '90s, such as Eclipse and First.

The Short Form, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, and Catapult Magazine

Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Dovecote, SmokeLong Quarterly, CutBank

Monkeybicycle, the New Yorker, the Lowbrow Reader, McSweeney’s, and of course MAD Magazine.

Analog Submission Press, 48th Street Press, Holy & Intoxicated Publications, Paper and Ink Literary Zine, and Pyre Publishing are just a few of the small presses specializing in chapbooks featuring underdog poetry.

Currently, I find myself attracted to journals that are open to different forms of storytelling, participate in cultural conversations, and most involve themselves in the literary community and conversation. I love when literary journals engage with other journals and are open to collaborations or partnerships. I love to see everyone's passion and new ways to engage readers and the comment in general. Right now I've been I've been following: The Rumpus, The Nasiona, Brave New Magazine, Split Lip Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Okay Donkey Magazine, and I'm sure I am missing several more!

As a science-fiction fan all my life, I think I gravitate naturally to publications like Clarksworld, Analog, Isaac Asimov. Outside the magazine world Tor. The work they publish is original, wonderful, captivating, imaginative...

Ploughshares, Electric Literature, The New Yorker, A Public Space, Perfumer & Flavorist, New York Review of Books, The Believer, Catapult

Ploughshares and AGNI, APT, Confrontations, the Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Poetry Magazine, Southern Review, Parnassus, RainTaxi, among others.

Witness Magazine, Graywolf Press, Ninth Letter, Epoch, Arsenal Pulp Press, Beloit Fiction Journal, The Massachusetts Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Penguin Teen, Bloomsbury, The Iowa Review

SciFi Lampoon Magazine

Knives Forks and Spoons
Adjacent Pineapple
Hesterglock Press
3AM Magazine
Selcouth Station
Fly on the Wall
If p then q
Nostrovia! Poetry
Tall-lighthouse
Degenerate Lit
Pamenar
The 87 Press
Guillemot
The Emma Press
Eye Flash Poetry
Influx
Gallery Beggar

So many! Poetry, Cream City, Sugar House, december, Copper Nickel, Dancing Girl Press, Sibling Rivalry, Willow Books, BlazeVOX. We also have a terrific poetry community here in Chicagoland: MAKE, After Hours, TriQuarterly, Arsenic Lobster, Featherproof Books, and more than one amazing reading series. RHINO gets so much energy from being engaged in our amazing local literary conversation.

Public Illumination Magazine, they're the only ones still doing weird shit with a pure and true DIY spirit. And yeah, to be honest, the entire reason The Opiate began was in response to a general lack of iconoclasm in what's left of the industry.

Slice has a gorgeous look and puts out consistently amazing fiction. Compelling nonfiction in Orion. We like the accessible, relatable poetry published by Main Street Rag.

I admire Foreign Policy, The Guardian and Aljazeera in terms of their quality and in-depth reporting.

Tinfish Press, Bamboo Ridge Press, One Story, Barrelhouse, Fence, Hawai`i Review

Kenyon Review, december magazine, Cincinnati Review

We like Abstract Magazine, Contemporary Haibun Online, Haibun Today, Rattle, Drunken Boat, 3 a.m., Word Riot, Whiskey Island, Gambling the Aisle, DMQ Review, Belle Reve Literary Journal, concis, The Virginia Normal, Modern Haiku, Ginosko, haiku Presence, The Chaffey Review, MPT, and many others.

Popshot, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Feathertale, Prism, Glass Buffalo, Filling Station, F(r)iction.

In love with Datableed right now. Have loved Diagram for years. Tagvverk is putting out interesting vverk too. Populist Records out of Los Angeles for new music. Insert Blanc Press also out of LA has amazing books.

Tor, Baen, Orbit

I am fond of Rattle, Porridge, Barren, The Pedestal, Foliate Oak, The Dead Mule, Crab Orchard Review, and Voices de la Luna. As far as publishers go, Copper Canyon is always on-point. 11:11 Press and the Calliope Crashes Media Group are doing beautiful things.

We admire publications, and publishers, that are committed to innovative or intellectual or challenging or humorous work from the present and from the past. That means our aesthetic is as informed by the reissues published by NYRB Press and Persephone Books as it is by work that appears in the pages of Granta, The Paris Review, Carolina Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Fence, Lapham's, Public Domain Review, and others. We greatly admire university-based journals that have not only survived but flourished in an age of shrinking readership: Gulf Coast, AQR, MQR, the Southern Review, our neighbors Ninth Letter and Sou'wester. Lastly, we admire journals that thrive online, like The Collagist, Nashville Review, Shenandoah, and others.

All the greats, Mad Magazine, Weekly World News, the backs of cereal boxes.

Oh, many many. We like The Missouri Review, The Journal, PRISM international, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast...journals that don't have one particular aesthetic but instead search for the best work they can find.

Shearsman Books, KFS, Litmus, Emma Press, Penned in the Margins, Seren, Poetry Wales, Veer Books,
Red Ceilings Press, Crater, Agenda, etc

Lapham's Quarterly
National Geographic
The Smithsonian

Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Paris Review, A Public Space, the Stinging Fly,

We love those journals and magazines whose presence raises the bar for contemporary Canadian (and international) literature: ARC Poetry, The Antigonish Review, Canthius, The Capilano Review, Contemporary Verse 2 (CV2), Cosmonauts Avenue, The Fiddlehead, filling Station, Geist, Grain, The Malahat Review, Minola Review, Plenitude, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, The Puritan, Riddle Fence, Room, SubTerrain, and Vallum, among others.

I admire the tens of online literary magazines which exist solely because of the love for literature. The platforms provided by the online literary magazines often acts as a wonderful springboard to young aspiring literary authors.

Local publishers like Ethos Books, Singapore who publish because they believe in the work of their writers and the importance of literature, even if they don't make money off it.

Red Fez, New Verse News, Asymptote, and Rigorous: a journal by people of color

I was inspired by indie publishers like Civil Coping Mechanisms (Michael Seidlinger), Akashic (Johnny Temple), and Small Beer Press (Kelly Link).

Black Warrior Review
Booth
Jellyfish Review
Passages North

Sun Magazine
Yoga Journal
Kindred Spirit
Spirit & Health
Light of Consciousness
Shambhala Sun
The Intelligent Optimist
Briarpatch
The Dominion
National Geographic

Barrelhouse, SplitLip, American Literary Review, F(r)iction, Paper Darts, Hobart

N+1. The New York Review of Books, Antioch Review, The Common, Three Penny Review, Rattle, Paris Review, Hudson Review, Southwest Review

Hyacinth Girl Press, YesYes Books, The Adroit Journal, The Shallow Ends, Muzzle Magazine, and other independent publishers working to increasing the visibility of poetry.

The New Yorker, Blind Faith Books, Kaylie Jones Books, Glimmer Train

I prefer publishers and publications from the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and France. I think the middle of the nineteenth century saw the peak of world literature. My current research is into eighteenth century satire and early novels, and I admire these as well.

Well this changes all the time, but reliable standbys are: AGNI, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, The Normal School, One Story, Ploughshares, A Public Space, Split Lip Magazine & Press, Witness

The Escape Artists podcasts will always hold a special place in my heart. Escapepod, the word's most widely distributed Science Fiction podcast, originally inspired me to to start the Drabblecast. My time over there as Chief Editor for 4 years following Mur Lafferty was an honor and joy-- all of the Escape Artists podcasts have their own unique type of charisma and they're all willing to push boundaries and try new things while also paying homage to the greats of the past.
I have a lot of respect for Beneath Ceaseless Skies as well. As both the editor and main audio producer of Drabblecast, I'm a real obsessive compulsive nerd when it comes to top-notch production quality, and Scott Andrews, editor over at BCS is the same way. You can listen to any episode and immediately tell that they not only publish great fantasy-- they publish great _sounding_ fantasy.

Common Deer Press seeks to expand the mind of readers through uncommon and exceptionally well-written literature. At Common Deer Press, we believe that books are magical. Black ink on plain white paper can cause you to cry, laugh, sigh, get angry, anxious, nervous. Fall in love. Inspire wonder. They can transport you to far off lands---places you’ve never been to. Even other worlds. They can make you think seriously about things you’d never even considered before. Time travel exists, my friends. We do it every time we open a book. The teleport machine was invented centuries ago when the first caveperson made the first marks in the stone and someone else saw them and imagined something.
Our vision is to publish books that are so beautifully written they border on art. We strive to to be both publishing partners and a caring people to our community of authors. We are willing to take smart risks and think outside of the box--unless the

The New Yorker, Zoetrope, Poets & Writers, Dead Mule, The Southern Review, Duotrope

We love editors and journals who make overt and explicit efforts to put the writer first. Barrelhouse does a fantastic job of working in this mode; they're also great role models (for us) in terms of how to grow in a sustainable and ethical way and how to experiment with new initiatives. We love Sarabande for all of the same reasons but also because (like us) they have a taste for work that doesn't quite fit into conventional genres. Copper Nickel is a journal that we love for the extremely high quality of its contents; we look there for stuff that turns our heads around. Memorious is one of our favorite digital-only publications. We like what Wigleaf does online too.

Nature: Futures
Bards and Sages
Arachne Press
Science Fiction Daily
Asimov's

Chiron Review
Rattle
Tupelo Press

We admire a variety of publications, including Paper Darts, JetFuel, Black Fox Literary Magazine, and many others.

Because we're an undergraduate-produced magazine, I'm constantly looking for publications that defy what it means to be "undergraduate." I really enjoy The Common, Miscellany, and the Susquehanna Review. Outside of student publications--Brevity, Fjords Review, PANK, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, and Smokelong Quarterly.

Poetry Magazine
The New York Review of Books
The Paris Review
James Joyce Quarterly
The New Criterion

Fine Lines admires all modern journals, The New Yorker, Sun, and other publications that feature creative writing by young writers of all ages. We support those individuals who struggle to find and develop their voices, help others to be heard, and dare to share their messages with the world. In our twenty-seven years of life, Fine Lines has published writers in the second grade up to university graduate schools. The oldest writer ever published was ninety-four and continued to write poetry until she passed away. Our writing list includes doctors, lawyers, one Native American Indian Chief, truck drivers, prisoners, homeless people, and millionaires. Our best writers include those with many degrees, but often, the most interesting writers are those who have never been published before. Still, they say, "I have this story idea that will not go away. I think it is a good one, but I don't know how to get started. Will you help me?" We have a long list of editors who do help anyone who asks. Contact us. Let's write your story, together. Our motto is "Write On!" This is what we do. Contact us. Send us a submission. We will get back to you. Go to www.finelines.org to see one of our journals free. If it looks interesting, we will be the publication for you. Our non-profit organization publishes four books a year. They are available via Amazon. We also have four digital copies available, too. The digital copies are in color. The printed versions are in black and white. We hope to hear from you soon. Write On! David Martin, editor

We enjoy the work published by Red Dragonfly Press and Bottom Dog Press.

Crazy Horse and Crack the Spine. Independent publishers who buck the traditional.

There are so many, so I can hardly do justice to all the ones I like. I'll mention three: Faber & Faber, as I've always loved the quality of the writing that they support; Bloodaxe, given that they released the amazing Staying Alive poetry collection; and Vintage, as they have published so many authors that I've read. But there are dozens more....

I am a longtime fan of Pank, Booth, and The Believer. I wildly admire OSU's Prism and Edinboro University's Chimera.

There are some terrific magazines and journals, right here in British Columbia, that are publishing exciting, challenging work: Geist, Poetry is Dead, subTerrain, Room, EVENT.

PANK
Brillant Flash Fiction
Flash
Flash Fiction Online
Crack The Spine
Vistal Review
Unbroken Journal
The Cantabrigian Magazine
Cha

There are so many! Off the top of our head: Ploughshares, the Common, Tin House, Cincinnati Review, New England Review, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, A Public Space, Post Road, Seattle Review, Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, New South, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, The Journal, and too many others to name them all.

Glass Lyre Press has a similar vision to Blue Light Press. We love what they publish.
We are major fans of Rilke, Neruda, Rumi, W.S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, Jane Hirshfield, Stephen Dunn, and too many others to list.

We want to be Hippocampus Magazine when we grow up. (But like most upstarts, we want to do it our own way.)

Tastes differ among the editorial staff, but we have admiration for Ecotone, Alaska Quarterly, Tor.com, Adroit, Ploughshares, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Glimmer Train, The Michigan Review, Electric Lit, AGNI, Granta, Tin House, Copper Nickel, Flash Fiction Online, Shimmer, Black Static, The Iowa Review, The Black Warrior Review and Ninth Letter.

I’m always reading new things, so this isn’t really an “admire most” list. This is more of a "currently paying attention to" list:
Split Lip
Barrelhouse
The Common
Collateral
Apogee

We love to read Brain, Child; Hip Mama; Bitch; Ms.; Bust; The Sun; Poets & Writers; Creative Nonfiction; Tin House; Writer's Digest. We seek out books published by Seal Press, Counterpoint, and The Feminist Press, plus of course the publishers publishing our contributors' and editors' books: Mariner, Simon & Schuster, Beacon, Leapfrog, Roost Books and others.

Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Black Warrior Review, McSweeney's, Ecotone, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, A Public Space

Ninth Letter, Publishing Genius, Penny

Right now, my favorites are Apogee Journal, Rigorous, Nat. Brut, Winter Tangerine, Blueshift Journal, Dorothy, Waxwing, Yellow Medicine Review, Obsidian, Cloudthroat, Grist, Underblong, LIT, The Margins, Queer Southeast Asia, Black Napkin, and The Wanderer.

Quail Bell has a similarly all inclusive ethos which I deeply admire. They have a lot of diversity going on there, in every sense of the word. Occulum and Moonchild Magazine also have their hearts in the right place, and it shows.

Big Lucks, YesYes Books, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Winter Tangerine, Honeysuckle Press, Noemi Press, Whiskey Island

Rust + Moth, Into The Void, Maudlin House, The Molotov Cocktail

Brevity, Apex Digest, McSweeney's, One Story, The Atlantic, Keyhole Magazine, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Word Riot, Foliate Oak, The Gettysburg Review, Tin House, Myslexia, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, (no longer publishing: Shock Totem & Bound Off)

Our reading habits are as eclectic and evolving as the stories and poems we select for publication. Currently we're into: Baltimore Review, Barrelhouse, Crazyhorse, Diagram, Juke Joint, Mississippi Review, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Raleigh Review, Stay Thirsty Magazine, Superstition Review, TriQuarterly, Waxwing, Zone 3 . . .

We admire all literary journals that strive to survive and continue publishing, often as a pure labor of love by the editorial staff. Some of our favorites include: Hobart, Smokelong Quarterly, FRiGG, Wigleaf, Copper Nickel, The MacGuffin, A Public Space, Black Warrior Review, and Mississippi Review.

I'm really into traditional literary print publications such as FENCE, Subtropics, N+1, A Public Space, The Kenyon Review, and The Paris Review. But there's so much amazing writing on the internet, available to anyone with access. I follow writers and academics I admire on Twitter and they're always linking to stories and articles they think are amazing. It's like a crowdsourced reading list, as variable as the people who do the recommending. Most of the gatekeepers of literary publishing are white, and that impacts what's printed. Twitter/the internet subverts the racial boundary. Anyone can publish anything. It means there's a lot of bad writing out there, but also a lot of wonderful, moving, creative writing that hasn't traditionally found a home in print literary journals. As a managing editor, if I read something I like, I look up the author and message them and encourage them to submit to TSR.

Granta
Creative Nonfiction
Paris Review
Tampa Review
Words Without Borders
Tin House
Glimmer Train
Southern Quarterly
Exquisite Corpse
Electric Literature
Narrative
Guernica
Joyland

Right now, some of our favorites include McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cleaver, Apiary Magazine, The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets, The White Review, n+1, Crazyhorse, and The Kenyon Review.

Oxford American, LitHub, The Bitter Southerner, Hazlitt--actually, it's too many to list.

All journals and magazines, university-affiliated or privately run, that provide platforms for high-quality work, especially by new and emerging writers.

The Examined Life Journal
Bellevue Literary Review
British Medical Journal: Medical Humanities

Tin House; Glimmer Train; Rattle; BOMB; Granta.

Influx Press, Tramp Press, &Other Stories, Bluemoose, Biblioasis, Scribe, Melville House, Pushkin Press, Peirene, CB Editions, Dead Ink, Tilted Axis, BookThug and loads more.

Glimmer Train, Gulf Coast, Graywolf Press

Ploughshares; Gulf Coast; Antioch Review; Tin House; Dorothy, a publishing project; FC2; A-Minor; Stolen Island.

We love the work we see in presses like Kenyon Review, Image Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Rock & Sling, and Ruminate Magazine. In addition, we admire the tenacity and commitment to integrity and beauty we see in small, independent journals like Bird's Thumb, Literary Orphans, and Whale Road Review among others.

The Fem, phoebe, Whiskey Island, New Delta Review, Gertrude Press, Crab Fat Magazine, Winter Tangerine Review, Bone Bouquet, BOAAT, Calyx, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, Gigantic Sequins, Hayden's Ferry Review, FLAPPERHOUSE, Hermeneutic Chaos, Moonsick Magazine, Passages North, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review

Wigleaf, Vending Machine Press, Fair Folk, Unbroken Journal, Gravel, Dogzplot, Jellyfish Review, The Cabal, New World Writing, Live Nude Poems, gobbet.

Literary magazines: Cincinnati Review, Subtropics, Massachusetts Review, Words Without Borders, Poetry Magazine, Hudson Review, Paris Review, New England Review, 32 Poems, Missouri Review, Ploughshares... Presses: Archipelago, New York Review Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Two Lines Press, Open Letter, Deep Vellum, Dalkey Archive, New Directions, Melville House...

We admire Bellevue Literary Review. Our journal explores the interface between the individual and the healing arts. Like BLR, we do not limit ourselves to "medical" pieces, but are interested in all aspects of the human condition.

The Fem, phoebe, Whiskey Island, New Delta Review, Gertrude Press, Crab Fat Magazine, Winter Tangerine Review, Bone Bouquet, BOAAT, Calyx, Cosmonauts Avenue, Guernica, Gigantic Sequins, Hayden's Ferry Review, FLAPPERHOUSE, Hermeneutic Chaos, Moonsick Magazine, Passages North, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review

wigleaf, FriGG, Hobart, Santa Monica Review, Monkeybicycle, Matchbook, Necessary Fiction, American Short Fiction, One Story, Michigan Quarterly Review, Confrontation, and New Letters among many others.

Red Fez, Flash Fiction Press, Collateral

Some of our favorite publications include Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Birdfeast, Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Linebreak, Pleiades, Salt Hill, and more.

I particularly enjoyed Byker Books when they were bringing out satirical, humourist anecdotes from the pubs of northern England. It was that olden, culture of 1970s England that appealed to me that was apparent in a lot of the work they published.
I'm currently reading 'Jerusalem' by Alan Moore, a hybrid of genres, ranging from fantasy, to crime, to drama - it spans two millennia and is an interesting twist of characters, plots and sub-plots.

Split Lip, Thoughtcrime Press, Meekling Press, Sundog Lit, MUSE /A Journal, The Offing, Funhouse, HTMLGiant, Synaesthesia Mag, Two Dollar Radio, YesYes Books, Dryland Lit, NOÖ, matchbook, Conjunctions, Graywolf, STORY magazine, featherproof, Dancing Girl Press, and any journal/mag/press that figures out how to do something we didn't even know we wanted.

Brevity
Blink-Ink
Cabinet
Diagram
NANO Fiction
Nanoism
Nomadic Press
Up the Staircase Quarterly

Plenty! The White Review, TinHouse, N + 1, Poetry, Hippocampus, Creative Nonfiction, Terrain.org, The Common, etc., etc.... We're always looking at print and on-line work.

Agni, Ninth Letter, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, True Story, Gulf Coast, New England Review, Numero Cinq, and many others.

In the science fiction/fantasy domain, in no particular order: Crossed Genres, Angry Robot Books, Melville House, Small Beer Press, and Evil Hat Productions, among others.

Neil Clarke at Clarkesworld Magazine. He has a winning formula for supporting his online-only publication. Also, Ellen Datlow, who paved the way for many other female editors -- and editors in general -- and remains one of the most talented editors in the business.

John Gosslee (Fjords); The Main Street Rag; Crazyhorse; The Sun; Creative Nonfiction; McSweeney's.

Graywolf Press, Brick, Ninth Letter, Noon, Siglio Press, Sylph Editions, Two Lines

As far as other chapbook publishers go, we admire New Michigan Press, Black Lawrence, One Story, Omnidawn, Brooklyn Arts Press, Four Way, Bull City, Kore, Gertrude, Two Sylvias, BatCat Press, Big Lucks, Red Bird Chapbooks, Mayapple, THRUSH, Tupelo, Wick Poetry Center, YesYes, Forklift OH, Ugly Duckling Presse, Timeless Infinite Light, and many others. However, that list probably skews toward poetry; we are equally interested in fiction, nonfiction, one-act plays, visually-inspired work, hybrid and/or multi-genre work. We want to expand the idea of what a chapbook can be!

A Public Space, Black Warrior Review, BOAAT, Boston Review, The Common, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Fence, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, jubilat, Kenyon Review, Lana Turner, Noon, Octopus, The Offing, Oversound, Prelude, Tin House, The Volta, Washington Square, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day Series.

Honest ones.

Harvard Review because each issue is itself a work of art. Tuesday: An Art Project for innovations in formatting. APR for sticking with what works. The Missouri Review for fantastic covers. Ecotone for continued excellence and importance. DIAGRAM for a fantastic premise. Anderbo.com: simple but effective. Beloit Poetry Journal for the care and attention they give to each work they publish.

I admire the publishing efforts of my peers, who are working in an unfavourable climate for the arts. I would highlight some faves, like Arc Poetry, The Capilano Review, New Quarterly, Event, Malahat, Subterrain, & Room. Some favourite publishing houses include Book Thug, Coach House, Talonbooks, Nightboat, New Directions, Canarium, Ugly Duckling, Les Figues, Wakefield, Wolsak & Wynn, Wilfrid Laurier. Yeah, ok, I could go on all day -- I like to read around and I appreciate the diversity of the publishing industry so much.

Besides previous Cutting Block Book titles and those titles currently available through Farolight Publishing, readers will find similarity in tone and content to anthologies such as BORDERLANDS series (ed. Thomas Monteleone); CHIRAL MAD series (ed. Michael Bailey); WHISPERS series (ed. Stuart David Schiff); annual BEST OF HORROR series (ed. Ellen Datlow); annual BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR (ed. Paula Guran); and annual MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR series (ed. Stephen Jones).

McSweeney's - because it has courage to take on scary book projects. You know when they put their name on it, it's worth your dough-re-mi. The Sun (Chapel Hill) - because it's quietly stuck to its guns for 4 decades. A beautiful magazine of words. F&SF - because it has weathered changes in taste within its genre over many years and still come up swinging. The Missouri Review - it is what an academic literary magazine should be, not taste-maker but an advocate of finest craftsmanship. Bancroft Press (Baltimore) - a good little book-press. I just like underdogs.

I personally enjoy Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Apex, Clarkesworld, Daily Science Ficiton, Lightspeed, Orson Scott Card's InterGlaactic Medicine Show, Strange Horizons, Interzone and others. Hmm... It may be I read too much short ficiton. :)

The Book Folks

We love the short collection, Dinosaurs on Other Planets written by Danielle McGaughlin whom we interviewed on our site, the short story collection, Don't Read This At Home, by Angela Readman, our second prize winner in the Bath short Story Award last year (2015). She's published by &OtherStories, a small press that produces beautifully presented books. We also like The Good Son, a novel by Paul McVeigh who we have also interviewed on our site. It's published by Salt who publish a whole range of exciting writers.

Glimmer Train, Puerto del Sol, The New Yorker, among others

Publications dedicated to highlighting underrepresented voices; those with diverse editorial staff; those who commit to publishing work that engages with social justice and identity politics. Some favorites: The Offing, Winter Tangerine, Spook Mag, The James Franco Review, Mosaic, Nat. Brut., Nepantla, BOMB, Callalloo, and many others.

Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog, Asimov's, Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed

Asimov's, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Baen

Ploughshares, Glimmer Train Stories, Fiction International, Pushcart anthology, BOA publications, Paris Review

Space Squid has an ongoing partnership with and admiration of Drabblecast. The Drabblecast podcast has a very similar philosophy of bringing to the public quirky content that they will enjoy whether they want to or not.

We love the innovation of the Normal School and the pointedness of Brevity. DIAGRAM is also one of our favorites. Plume excites us and McSweeney's makes us hot. Pleiades inspires us and we read Tin House, too!

DIAGRAM, Handsome, Linebreak, Ninth Letter, Poor Claudia, The Tusk.

Ecotone, Pleiades, Tin House, Kestrel, 4AM, The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Hayden's Ferry, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, The Colorado Review, Terrain.org

Fantasy & Science Fiction remains one of my all-time favourite magazines, and a large part of the inspiration for Pulp Literature. I love the fact that classic stories like 'Harrison Bergeron' and 'Flowers for Algernon' first found their homes there and are now part of high school curricula. The stories they publish today are every bit as potent and well-written.

Obviously, we love the 'Busha. Also: Dreginald, Birdfeast, jubilat, TYPO, Big Lucks, The Atlas Review, The Destroyer, Tenderloin, Colorado Review, Ghost Proposal, Caketrain, Highlights for Children, Christian Science Monitor, The Economist, etc. Some presses we like include Action Books, Black Ocean, Ugly Duckling, Fence, The Song Cave, Horse Less Press, YesYes Books, Octopus, Omnidawn, The New York Times.

The Strand Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Shroud Magazine, Ripperologist.

The Cold Mountain Review, The Comstock Review, Vine Leaves, New Verse News, The Pinch Journal

Recently I've been following The Offing, Apogee Journal, Voicemail Poems, Room Magazine and other journals seeking diversity and unique platforms, but I also love more well known journals such as Electric Literature, One Story, The Rumpus, Brevity, and so many more.

I admire publishers who take the time to put out the best possible product for readers. Publishers who take risks on new authors are also important to me. Henery Press is a great example of a risk-taking, best-product-releasing publisher who is also successful for their authors and for themselves.

Tarpaulin Sky, notnostrums, Invisible Ear, Ninth Letter, Everyday Genius, Small Beer, Dalkey, FC2, BlazeVOX, WAVE, FENCE, NANO Fiction, Wigleaf, PANK, NOÖ, Featherproof, Bateau, 6X6, Crazyhorse,

There are some really good websites out there like Wired, AV Club, Vice and literary journals like Penny Dreadful, The Stinging Fly and Five Dials.

I read and admire Chicago Review, Seattle Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review and Gulf Coast, among others.

In the US, we're fans of The Paris Review, Tin House, A Public Space, Crazyhorse, The Chicago Review, One Story, The Missouri Review and plenty more. We like magazines that publish diverse styles and writers, that are open to publishing unknowns as well as big names.

Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. Maybe helpful to add I'm really done with Glimmer Train.

I admire American Short Fiction because of their focus on the writer, not on themselves as publishers. In site design at least I’ve tried to model their “clean screen” approach. Too many online publications, IMO, seem to want to showcase the editor’s cleverness and artsiness by coming up with clunky and abstruse navigation. Every Day Fiction is another site that’s great looking, simple, and comes across as being writer-centric.

The Newer York! offers an awesome wonky, experimental collection.

We admire a lot of publications, but we don't know of any others which are trying to do what we're doing: bringing literary fiction back to ordinary people. We promote literary fiction that people want to read after a long day at work. We're always looking for thoughtful storytellers. We're always looking for writing that grabs audiences.

I'm a massive fan of long form grimdark. Ragnarok, Grim Oak Press, Gollancz, Black Library, Bantam and Orbit are all doing really great things. I meet anything the authors under those flags release with shouts of 'SHUT UP AND TANKE MY MONEY'.

Writers' Forum, because they run a high-quality, monthly short story contest with a decent cash prize.
And Writers' Village, as Dr John Yeoman provides excellent feedback in the form of a concise critique to all entrants of the competition.

Volta, Ugly Duckling Presse, Les Figues, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Ahsahta Press, Shearsman Books, Columbia Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, Pleiades, Salt Hill.

Volta, Ugly Duckling Presse, Les Figues, 5 am, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Fourteen Hills, Goodfoot, New Zoo Review, The Pharos, Phoebe, Prairie Schooner, Redactions, Terminus, Verse, Worcester Review

Conjunctions, Fence, Granta, The Iowa Review, One Story, The Paris Review, Tin House, Zoetrope: All-Story.

Jacket
Southerly
Cordite
Vagabond
Spinifex Press
Transit Lounge
TEXT
Softblow
Snorkel
Blackbird
Inkwell
APJ
University of Queensland Press
Five Islands Press
Puncher & Wattmann
Peril
Sydney PEN
Picaro Press
Istanbul Literature Review
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership
Giramondo
Walleah Press
wa poets inc
Transnational Literature
Antipodes
Manoa
PN Review
Wasafiri
Desilit
Dislocate
Guernica

There are the national publications like Ploughshares and Poetry, but I really enjoy Barrelhouse, The Wolf, Gulf Coast, and Smartish Pace for consistently raising awareness of new,engaging voices.

We're a proud member of the independent publishing community.

Journal of Unlikely Cryptography/ Entomology, Shimmer, Innsmouth Free Press, Fungi, Pseudopod, Tales to Terrify, Welcome to Night Vale, Big Pulp, on and on. Small press, great work, what's not to love?

The New Inquiry
Poetry Superhighway
Rattle

Flyways, Island Press, Beacon, Salmon

Happy to see december magazine revived. Love what Willow Springs is doing. Jealous of the growth of Pank in such a short time. Rattle has always been a long time favorite of mine. Happy to see a magazine like Naugatuck River Review championing narrative poetry. Honorable mention: The South Dakota Review, Fugue, & The Portland Review.

It's a tough question because our staff rotates annually, but we read genre fiction in addition to the more traditionally literary offerings. Most recently, publications like Booth, PANK, and Paper Darts have got us excited.

Publishing Genius Press, Coconut (online), Agni, La Fovea, Blood Horse, American Poetry Review, Tyrant Books, River Styxx, Concho River Review, Quarter After Eight, Slipstream, Chattahoochee Review, American Poetry Review, and others.

Tin House, Georgia Review, Crazyhorse, Granta, Paris Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Brevity, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Border Crossing, PANK, Carolina Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Collagist, Shenandoah, AGNI, Necessary Fiction, and Hobart to name a few.

The New Yorker
David Godine (the press)
Paris Review
New York Times Book review section

We love independent, self-published writers, especially those with poetic political, feminist, environmental, activist, spiritual bents.

Epoch, Field, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, New England Review, Black Warrior Review, McSweeney's, Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Tin House

Orion, Ploughshares, Oxford American, Granta, Missouri Review, Sycamore Review, New England Review, Florida Review, Southeast Review. We are also deeply invested in Lookout Books, the literary press that was founded by combining the editorial strengths of Ecotone and the in-house production and design capabilities of our Publishing Laboratory.

Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Onion, Harper's

Silver Blade

Zoetrope, n+1, The Paris Review, Jacobin, Harvard Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Kenyon Review, Tin House, Southern Review--too many to name!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There are so many quirky, beautiful publications out there. I love Blood Pudding Press, 3:AM Magazine, The Cafe Irreal, Dog Horn Publishing, Black Coffee Press, Comma Press, Twisted Spoon Press, Serpent's Tail, Dedalus Press, Full of Crow, The Surreal Grotesque...

We are a huge fan of any public art and literature projects - and even moreso of public art that combines the two. Any general-interest publication that publishes poetry, too, gets a thumbs up from us: Orion, The Believer, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Slate, Salon, etc.

Twisted Spoon Press, Rain Taxi Review of Books, The Collagist, Agenda, Poetry, Smartish Pace, Poetry, Guernica, PN Review, New England Review, Hustler, Poetry London, TOAD, Sixth Finch, Diode, RATTLE, Spork.

I admire all of the small presses that are publishing what mainstream publishers often end up neglecting. This is why we exist, too.

I love Myslexia.

Graffiti artists. That guy who threw a shoe at Bush.

Summerset Review, Solstice, Story Glossia, One Story, Prick of the Spindle, Prime Number, Glimmertrain

New Letters, Rattle

Literary journals from Antioch Review to Zyzzyva.

The Dead Sea Scrolls

I admire publications that want a wide range of submissions and refrain from constant solicitation and accept work based on merit and the utter love of the work and not name recognition, favors, or social politics.

Trnsfer, Black Warrior Review, Fifth Wednesday, Best Non-Required Reading series

Granta; BBC International Short Story Award collections; Waterstones - the Shortlist; New Writing Scotland; Poetry Society Poetry review; Poetry Scotland; The Poetry Library Southbank Centre; Poetry Magazines Online.

Connotation Press
The Rusty Nail
Subtopian Magazine
FictionBrigade
Classic Rock Presents Prog

The journals I read and admire most consistently are The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse, Rattle, Fence, and Oxford American.

We appreciate other on-line publications' providing an essential service. We consider them colleagues, not competitors. We may sometimes admire particular works if they have an unusually attractive format.

Greywolf Press, Land-Grant College Review (no longer in print), Harpur Palate, River Styx, dislocate, Fiddleblack, Paris Review interviews and the Best European Fiction series.

We like Ninth Letter, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Narrative, Tin House, Black Warrior, the McSweeney's empire, Copper Canyon Press. For example.

The Susquehanna Review. We've met some of the students involved and know that they spend a great deal of time producing a product and it really shows.

The ones that treat their submitters and contributors kindly.
ie-- feedback with rejections when possible (or at least a kind form rejection letter), contributor promotions, timely responses, etc.

I admire small presses like Beautiful Trouble Publishing and LooseId. I also admire independent publishers like Steamy Tails and others who publish short fiction.

Copper Canyon, Graywolf, Coffee House, New Directions

Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Tin House, Rattle

Gettysburg Review, Harold Bloom, MAMMOTH Books

I quite like Joel Veitch's site rathergood.com, a little heavy on the kittens, but I do have an affection for the silly.
I admire the staying power of "Private Eye" a hard-hitting satirical magazine in the UK which has been going for.. err, well long before the internet anyway.
The Onion is good too.
You know what the internet is like.. I could be reading absolutely anything that grabs my interest!

I don't have a short list of publications I admire, but look for strong, subtle, non-stereotyped writing, intense and sensitive at the same time. I don't accept pieces that are sexist or have political agendas that preach or over-ride artistic sensibility. Please see my web-site, www.constellations-lit.com for examples, or our first issue available on Create Space and Amazon, plus a link to a written interview on what kind of writing fits Constellations.

The Sun, Poetry, River Styx, Paterson Literary Review

London Review of Books, New York Review of Books (plus their paperback series!), n+1, A Public Space, Poetry

Out of all the major publishers of fantasy, my vote goes to Tor. Pyr and Orbit are safe bets for quality fantasy, as well. For something offbeat: Small Beer Press, City Lights, Exact Change, Semiotext(e), and Raw Dog Screaming Press. And for gay spec fic, naturally we admire Blind Eye Books and Lethe Press.

Cast Macabre, Black Static

9th Letter, Missouri Review, Bat City Review, Black Warrior Review, Third Coast, One Story, Ecotone. Lots more.

N+1, Loaded Bicycle, failbetter, One Story, Fence, Agni, The Kenyon Review, The Greensboro Review

Lately I've been following EveryDayFiction.com and RayGunRevival.com quite a bit. I like the way they do things, and I especially appreciate the variety on EDF.
Daily Science Fiction publishes a lot of really good stories, and has a new one every day, which is definitely something I can get behind!

New Line Press with Publisher Catherine Burr and Editor-in-Chief Jim Halon, who inspired and encouraged me.

Granta, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and almost any publication that shuns heavily stylized, on-trend writing in favor of sharp, well crafted and engaging poetry and prose. We are nauseated by any magazine that aims to “move us, fiercely”.

Arc, The Capilano Review, The Fiddlehead, Poetry, Prairie Fire.

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Black Static, Interzone.

To list a few: McSweeney's, Happy Woman Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways, MonkeyBicycle, Word Riot, The Onion.

I admire Ambit for doing what it does, though I don't enjoy much of the content. Bloodaxe publish consistently interesting poetry. Of recent arrivals I'm a big fan of 14, which publishes only poems of 14 lines. I also like Acumen and Magma.

(Books) Artesia, The Balance of the Two Lands: Writings in Greco-Egyptian Polytheism, Faith and Magick in the Armed Forces: A Handbook for Pagans in the Military, Introduction to Pagan Studies, Kharis: Hellenic Polytheism Explored, Northern Tradition for the Solitary Practitioner, Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, The Phillupic Hymns, Whisper of Stone: Natib Qadish, A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism; (Blogs/Sites) Henadology, Pagan+Politics, No Unsacred Place, The Wild Hunt; (Periodicals) Goblin Fruit, Hex, Minerva, Mythic Delirium, witches&pagans, Yes!; (Publishers) Archaia, Asphodel Press, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Dark Horse, Image, New Page, O Books, Vertigo, Villard

The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Vogue (for the look)

We admire many publications, including, but not limited to, and in no particular order: The New Yorker, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Quick Fiction, Rose Metal Press, Dzanc Books, Juked, elimae, Eclectica, Storyglossia, jmww, decomP, PANK, Word Riot, Rattle, Monkeybicycle, Night Train, Barrelhouse, Hobart, Keyhole, Dogzplot--each has a long, steadfast track record for showcasing top-notch writing.

Cabinet des Fees
Dante's Heart
Journal of the Mythic Arts
Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
Marvels and Tales

Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show tends to have stories I like, as does The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. I enjoy Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Reflection's Edge, and subscribe to all the big name magazines, Azimov's, Analog, etc. Tor has a knack for picking great authors, and Solaris is doing really well. Another interesting publisher is Marcher Lord Press, for Christian speculative fiction.

We love Vehicule Press, Biblioasis Press, Frog Hollow Press, Geist, The Fiddlehead, (this is like an Oscar speech where you have too many names and not enough time) ARC poetry, there are others. We are looking for work that has interesting ideas, authors who are interested in the 'how' of what is said, and good old fashioned crafts-person-ship (is that a word?) on a sentence level.

Generally, anything that appears on our site's Links page. Specifically (and completely off the top of my head), McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Narrative Magazine, Pomegranate, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Six Sentences, The Believer, The Cadaverine.

Little, Brown and Company

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons

Glimmer Train, Narrative

In print I admire Bill Roberts at Bottle of Smoke Press and Henry Denander at Kamini Press. Both put out quality work.

Alaska Quarterly Review, Two Review, F Zine, NorthShore Press, CutBank, Malahat Review, Manoa, CALYX, Glimmer Train, Poetry Northwest, Tin House, APR, Poetry, Crab Creek Review, Bellingham Review, Willow Springs, the Northern Review, Arctica

McSweeney's
Lumberyard
Hobart
Barrelhouse
Ninth Letter

Asimov's Science Fiction, Asinine Poetry, DIAGRAM, Failbetter, Neon, Opium, Pemmican, Poetry, Press 1, Right Hand Pointing, Shit Creek Review, Six Little Things, Strange Horizons, Tattoo Highway.

Tri-Quarterly
Ploughshares
Notre Dame Review
Greensboro
Open City

You all because you steer so many submissions our way.

We have affinity with other online journals like PANK, Smokelong, dogzplot, The Summerset Review,storySouth, and Necessary Fiction. We like journals that embrace new voices and styles but consider traditional prose and poetry an old, always-welcome friend.

Agni, Witness, Ploughshares, Juked

Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Drunken Boat, 42opus, Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Asheville Poetry Review, AGNI, Greensboro Review, Hollins Critic, DIAGRAM, diode, etc.

Apex Magazine, Black Static, Clarkesworld, Clockwork Phoenix anthologiess, Electric Velocipede, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Night Shade Books, Prairie Schooner, Pseudopod, Pyr Books, Shimmer, Shock Totem, Tin House, Vestal Review, Weird Tales, anything antho edited by Ellen Datlow

Ellery Queen Mystery magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Savage Kick magazine, Apex magazine, Clarkesworld magazine, Strange Horizons, Bikernet.com,

Glimmer Train
Tin House
upstreet
Word Riot
PANK Magazine
Sententia
Jersey Devil Press
Titular

Journals: Tin House, A Public Space, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, Noon, The New York Tyrant, The Mississippi Review, Boulevard, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, 32 Poems, One Story, Field, Pleiades.
Publishers: New York Review Books, Dalkey Archive, Other Press, Tin House Books, Dzanc Books, Open Letter Books.

Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Hub Magazine

Granta is great for variety and new work by established authors; Litro for tomorrow's talent today, and new voices from London and Europe; UntitledBooks for up and coming writers; Slice for fantastic design and great American fiction from newcomers and well-known writers alike.

Poets & Writers maintains a list of several hundred small presses. I might want to delete one or two from that list but why bother. Any publication that ventures into these waters deserves my admiration.

Exquisite Corpse, Dogzplot, Ducts, The Sun, The New Yorker

The Dark Horse, Blue Unicorn, The Flea, Autumn Sky, Soundzine, The Raintown Review and more!

McSweeney's

Tin House, for its excellent fiction. Ploughshares, for its rotating editor policy. Glimmer Train, for its focus on short stories. One Story because it's a great idea. The now-defunct Town Drunk because I admired its editor. Chizine for its tight focus and high standards.

Irish Pages will publish writing of a similar standard to that found in Granta, The Paris Review and London Review of Books.

I tend to most admire publications that, like Terrain.org, have a place-based or environmental context: Orion; Hawk & Handsaw: The Journal of Creative Sustainability; The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts; LOST Magazine; Ecotone; High Desert Journal; and Isotope: A Journal of Literary Science and Nature Writing (although Isotope went under this year, sadly).
And then there are those more generalist journals I like because of their quality and rich mix of literature and art: The Georgia Review, Copper Nickel, Southern Review, Mid-American Review, 42opus, and Versal.
These lists seem both long and short, and yet I could gladly add plenty more.

Parabola Magazine, Tupelo Press, Copper Canyon Press, Pedestal Press, 2 Rivers. Also: ginosko and Black Lawrence Press, Alehouse Press, Nimrod, Field

Actually, most other small presses fall short in some capacity or another, which is why I started cc&d magazine. When it comes to poetry magazines or books, I am usually dissatisfied with the design of the writing on the page, and (probably like how most other writers feel when they read a collection of different writings) I usually only like a select few pieces in any collection. Liking only a fraction of writing in a collection probably comes with the territory for any poetry publication, but we try to put a variety of pieces together, and more often than not (hopefully) more will catch the reader's eye.

Alaska Quarterly Review, Gettysburg Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Bakeless Prize collections, Graywolf Press

I’m a big fan of Bananafish. Daniel McDermott has an amazing eye for spotting worthwhile work. You’re never going to skip to the end of something he publishes. And there’s Short, Fast & Deadly, too. They only publish stories written in 420 characters or less, so you can fly through an entire issue on a coffee break. And, again, the editor, Joseph Quintela, knows how to make sure that five minutes isn’t wasted.