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Oxford American

McSweeney’s

Sewanee Review

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet

Paris Review

Crazyhorse

Story

New Yorker

Threepenny Review

Kenyon Review

Zoetrope: All-Story – not open

Chicago Quarterly Review – not open (open in April 30)

Witness

American Short Fiction (August – December)

Fourteen Hills

Virginia Quarterly Review – not open

Georgia Review

Guernica (no “genre” or flash) 

LitMag

New England Review

ZYZZYVA

Granta 

Ecotone

Harper’s Magazine

Chicago Quarterly Review

Denver Quarterly

Alaska Quarterly Review

Cincinnati Review – open from September to January 1

Iowa Review – fall only

Third Coast – 

Cimarron Review

Copper Nickel – open until March 1

The Hopkins Review – open October & November

The Sun – 

The Southern Review – September 1 through December 1

Notre Dame Review – January – March

Conjunctions – 

Grist – by mail (always open for online, I think)

Subtropics – January 27-29 (ONLY TWO DAYS!)

Southern Humanities Review – 

Ascent

New Yorker

Paris Review

The Common

Guernica

Fiction

n+1

TriQuarterly

Redivider

Fence 

Ninth Letter

Diagram

Pleiades

BY DATE:

Ploughshares – June 1 – January 14

Conjunctions 

Joyland – currently open

New Yorker – always open

Paris Review – always open? (by mail)

Missouri Review – year-round

Harper’s Magazine – year-round (by mail)

A Public Space – now to April 15

Southwest Review – September 1 – May 31

Chicago Review – now to June 15

Triquarterly – Fall/Winter Issue (October-December); Spring Issue (March-May)

Colorado Review – August 1 – April 30

Prairie Schooner – Now until May 1 – BOOK PRIZE OPEN UNTIL MARCH 1

Georgia Review – August 16 to May 15

Cincinnati Review – Sept. 1 – March 1

Gulf Coast – September 1 – March 1

Alaska Quarterly Review – August 15 – May 15 (FICTION – March 1 – April 1)

Agni – Sept. 1 through May 31

Crazyhorse – September 1 – May 31

Antioch Review – Sept. 1 – May 31

Epoch Magazine – September 15 – April 15 (unsolicited); from agents year-round

Boulevard Magazine – November 1 – May 1

Five Points – January 1 – April 1; September 1 – April 1

Black Warrior Review – December 1 – March 1; June 1 – September 1

Threepenny Review – January 1 – June 30

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency – opens Jan. 6, 2020 

Zyzzyva – January 7 through May 31

Harvard Review – January 7 – April 7; August 1 – November 27

One Story – January 15; 3k – 8k

Michigan Quarterly Review – January 15 – March 31

Witness Magazine – January 15 – March 1; August 15 – October 1

Yale Review – opens again in 2020

Ecotone – January 26 – February 1

Fairy Tale Review – not open now, but usually open in March

New England Review – March 1 – May 31

Gettysburg Review – June 1 – August 31

American Short Fiction – August 1 – December 31

Hudson Review – September 1 – November 30

Southern Review – September 1 – December 1

Subtropics – September 15 – September 30

Electric Literature – Two 1-week submissions periods per year, usually in Spring and Fall.

Shenandoah – Don’t know

From NewPages:

Adroit Journal

AGNI

Alaska Quarterly Review

Arts & Letters

The Baltimore Review

Bellevue Literary Review

Beloit Fiction Journal

Bennington Review

Big Muddy

Boulevard

The Briar Cliff Review

Carve Magazine

Cimarron Review

Colorado Review

The Common

CRAFT Literary

Crazyhorse

The Florida Review

Fourth River

Fugue

Gemini Magazine

The Georgia Review

The Gettysburg Review

The Greensboro Review

The Iowa Review

The Kenyon Review

The Malahat Review (don't know if it's open to US writers)

The Massachusetts Review

The Masters Review

Midwest Review

Missouri Review (HUGE prize/contest going on until Oct. 18)

New England Review

New Letters

New Orleans Review

Salamander

The Santa Clara Review

The Sun

Southern Humanities Review

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