Magazine Reports
We all know to read a publication before submitting. Joe Mackall, editor of the CNF journal River Teeth, cautions if you want to read all the publications you hope to submit to you better hope you live to be 300 years old, but to be familiar with five to six you want to submit to is a realistic goal.
In order to get more familiar with specific prose markets, our students do in-depth reports on magazines they admire. They are similar to market sheets, but include interviews with magazine editors, the reviewer’s two-cents and simple data analysis of three issues. Below you’ll find a sampling of our student reports; they’ll be updated bi-annually.
There is nothing like them on the Web.
It goes without saying but we’ll say it anyhow; the views expressed in our market research are those of the student reviewers and do not represent the opinions of the Fiction Writing Department, or Columbia College Chicago. The research can help you narrow down your search for a suitable home for your prose.
Another Chicago Magazine - A journal so Chicagoan, it plays bags.
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Apple Valley Review - Have a heaping helping of this lit mag.
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Avery Anthology - A fun, good-natured journal
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Black Clock - "Audacious, visceral, and not above fun"
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Blood Lotus - A journal of fiction, poetry, and "gray area" works
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Dever Syntax - Provacative reading to keep you warm during ski season
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Dogzplot - Full of chutzpah? Send it here.
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Feathertale Magazine - Send your funny work here
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The First Line - Use their first line, write your story
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Furnace Review - Get cozy with this classy magazine
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Greensboro Review - Down-to-earth, fun stories.
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Lady Churchhill's Rosebud Wristlet - Charming speculative fiction
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MAKE - A magazine so Chicagoan, it eats Italian beef.
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Mid-American Review - Smack-dab in the heart of Awesomerica.
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Midway Journal - Artsy, but certainly not fartsy.
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The Minus Times - A literary flea market
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Mississippi Review - M-I-S-S-I love this journal.
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NANO Fiction - Not everything's bigger in Texas; itty bitty fiction here
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Opium - Get out of your den and pick this zine up.
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Paradox - A modern magazine just for historical fiction
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Portland Review - Portland State University's student-run lit mag
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Quick Fiction - Quick and dirty. Well, not that dirty. Just quick.
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Red Mountain Review - Get out your hiking boots for this mag.
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Seattle Review - Voted favorite magazine by the cast of Grey's Anatomy.
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Smoke Long - Legend has it, their stories are about a smoke long, so light up.
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Spinetingler - Mom, can you leave the lights on?
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Sub-Lit - Trains, sandwiches, underwater boats, great stories.
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Toasted Cheese - A friendly place where writers get honest feedback
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Theaker's Quarterly - An incredibly approchable genre quarterly
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Weird Tales - The name says it all: odd, strange, weird stories.
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Other Markets We Like:
3 AM Magazine - Air your literary dirty laundry here, cynics
The Big Ugly Review - Wonderful online journal that melds lit and fun
Blackbird
- Virginia Commonwealth University's top-notch lit mag
Brevity - Short. Short. Short. Nonfiction.
Bust Down the Doors & Eat All the Chickens - Ceci n'est pas une journal
Carve - A solid online journal looking for honest literary fiction
Eclectica - Minimalist Web design leaves the focus on strong writing
FRiGG Magazine - Showcasing groovy fiction since 2003
Ploughshares - It's a bountiful harvest of breathtaking fiction
Swill - A journal for when you need a nudge off of Cloud Nine
Water~Stone Review - A high caliber lit mag from St. Paul, Minn.
Whistling Shade - Experimental fiction that knows why it's experimental
Word Riot - A hip online journal that seeks emerging writers. The interview with founder and editor Jackie Corley is gold.
