Our goal is to have as comprehensive a list as possible of Journals and Magazines devoted to or focused on women writers. Please consider supporting these publications by following them on social media, signing up for their newsletters, and, of course, buying copies.
If a journal or magazine is missing from our list, or you find broken/dead links, incorrect information, typos, etc., please let us know about it using the form at the bottom of the page.
If a journal or magazine is missing from our list, or you find broken/dead links, incorrect information, typos, etc., please let us know about it using the form at the bottom of the page.
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13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine is a home for women writers, and people who want to read their work. It was founded in 1973, in the glow of the second wave of feminism.
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While Adanna is dedicated to women, it is not exclusive, and it welcomes our counterparts and their thoughts about women today. Submissions to Adanna must reflect women’s issues or topics, celebrate womanhood, and shout out in passion.
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Alaska women have stories to tell. Alaska Women Speak is the journal devoted to their expression of ideas, literature and art.
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Alyss is a literary zine for dangerous women.
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ang(st) explores the physicality of feminism – our relationships with our bodies, with society, and with other bodies.
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Ash is an online and print magazine. We champion ordinary, extraordinary women and their endeavours in art, enterprise and activism.
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As/Us is a space to showcase the creative literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established writers of color from around the world. In our inception and for the first 5 years of the magazine we focused on primarily publishing works by underrepresented writers particularly Indigenous women and women of color. With a new full team of editors we are expanding the focus to include all writers of color.
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Aster(ix) is a transnational feminist literary arts journal committed to social justice and translation, placing women of color at the center of the conversation.
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Bone Bouquet is a biannual print journal publishing new writing by female and non-binary poets, from artists both established and emerging. We aim to highlight the important literary work of women and non-binary people, who are often underrepresented in the writing community and popular media.
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Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers is an award-winning literary magazine dedicated to motherhood.
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Broad! is a online literary semiannual that publishes exclusively writers and artists who identify as women, trans*, or outside the gender binary. Female, trans*, and genderqueer writers are severely underrepresented in literary publications today, and we hope to help change that.
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The Brown Orient was founded in response to the dire underrepresentation endured by creatives from South Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Central Asia. In commitment to this promise of uplifting marginalized talents, we choose to exclusively feature writers and artists who identify as a woman or as a member of the queer community, who remain sidelined even within their immediate communities.
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CALYX exists to nurture women’s creativity by publishing fine literature and art by women.
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Canthius is a Canadian literary magazine publishing poetry and prose by women, transgender men, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and genderqueer/gender non-conforming writers.
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Capulet Mag seeks the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. This publication highlights the work of young women writers and artists of all levels. Capulet Mag empowers young women to share their creativity with Juliets everywhere. This magazine is a safe place for all who identify with the women experience to express themselves in a safe, inclusive community.
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Cauldron Anthology is a literary journal about embracing the wild feminine. Pulling from classical stories and myth, each issue will be themed around a woman or myth who embraced the dark and seductive. Around the cauldron woman have moved, keepers of the house, guardians of future generations, lovers and wives. Women hold a secret magic.
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Cordella seeks to record and share the creative voices of women-identified and nonbinary people from all walks of life, exploring the ways that our spirit and sense of self is engaged with our physical place and daily experiences.
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A journal of feminist folklore & fairy tales from Sword & Kettle Press. In this journal, feminist tales reexamine pretty princesses and distressed damsels, spiteful stepmothers and wicked witches. They repurpose the ideas and imagery of traditional tales in meaningful ways. They responsibly represent a wide range of cultures and identities, and they embrace complexity.
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Crone: Women Coming of Age explores the gifts and concerns of women who seek to fully embrace Earth’s cycles of life and death and transformation.
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Desert Rose are a brand new biannual literary magazine publishing short fiction, essays, and poetry of women of color by women of color.
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Dying Dahlia Review is looking for previously unpublished work by women writers and artists.
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Earth's Daughters (E.D.) is a feminist literary arts periodical published by a multi-generational women's collective in Buffalo, New York.
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FemAsia was conceived as a magazine for women, in which issues and events which impact on girls and women in our contemporary world are discussed and explored. We wish to showcase the talents, experience and perspectives of women across Asia,
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Les Femmes Folles (LFF) is an organization around the online journal supporting women in art founded and curated by Sally Deskins.
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For the Sonorous is a literary journal dedicated to empowering and publishing women and non-binary people of color.
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GUTS
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GUTS is a digital, volunteer-run feminist magazine and blog. Our magazine publishes literary essays and reviews, long-form journalism, interviews, fiction, poetry, and new media to further feminist discourse, criticism, and community engagement in Canada.
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Hysterical is a literary magazine that strives to highlight the diversity of writers who are women, femmes or non-binary people whose work deftly navigates and subverts societal expectations across and between genres, carving out a unique space for voices working to redefine the persistently patriarchal world of literary writing generally and humor specifically.
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Iris Magazine is sponsored by the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center at UVA. It is an award-winning, nationally acclaimed magazine for thinking young women at UVA and beyond.
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Jahanamiya is a feminist literary magazine that publishes written work exclusively by Saudi women, as well as accompanying artwork created by regional artists.
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Lady
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Lady is an online literary magazine for women, by women of all ages. Our goal at Lady is to showcase the work of the female writer who, perhaps, has never been given the opportunity to share her voice. It’s a place to welcome any woman who has something to say about her world.
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Lavender Review is an international, biannual (June & December) e-zine dedicated to poetry and art by, about, and for lesbians, including whatever LGBTQ might appeal to a lesbian readership.
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Independent, Jewish & frankly feminist since 1976, Lilith magazine charts Jewish women’s lives with exuberance, rigor, affection, subversion and style. Lilith’s mission is to be the feminist change-agent in and for the Jewish community, amplifying Jewish women’s voices, creating a woman-positive Judaism, spurring gender consciousness in the Jewish world and empowering Jewish women and girls to envision and enact change in their own lives and their communities.
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Literary Mama believes that all mothers have a story worth sharing and honors the many faces of motherhood by publishing work that celebrates the journey as well as the job.
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Lumen is a project for (and by!) women and nonbinary people. We are interested in poetry, fiction, personal essays, and interviews that examine how we move through the world, both as complex individuals and as members of larger communities.
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Luna Luna is an online diary and community dedicated to making space for the light, dark, and shadow. We cover mainly literature, ritual living and wellness, personal essay, identity, and idea. Part literary journal, part grimoire, we are a safe space for women, queer people, non-binary folks, and people of color.
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The on-going mission of Luna Station Quarterly is to display the vast and varied talents of women-identified speculative fiction writers.
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Maximum Middle Age is inclusive, intersectional, fun, smart and interesting. And old enough to know better.
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The Menstrual Radical Feminist Literary Magazine is an independent, online literary magazine with an objective to locate, publish and promote radical feminist literary opinions in the form of essays, memoirs and auto/biographical accounts, reviews, graphic and visual arts, poetry and creative texts.
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Mezzo Cammin features poems in form by contemporary women writers; reviews of new books by and about women poets who work in form; and essays that explore a variety of topics, ranging from the accomplishments of a particular poet, to the possibilities of a particular form and the history and politics of canonization.
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Minerva Rising, an independent literary press, celebrates the creativity and wisdom in every woman by giving them space to tell their stories and to tell them well. We publish thought-provoking and insightful fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry.
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Minola Review features all women and is carefully curated for only the strongest, fiercest, most honest voices. Minola Review is a space for us to inhabit our full female selves, to be messy, real, goofy, angry, and bewildered without worrying about censoring for or pandering to the visions and opinions of men.
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The Mom Egg Review is a literary journal about motherhood. MER promotes and celebrates the creative force of mother writers and artists through publications, performances, workshops, and online.
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Mothers Always Write is an online literary magazine for mothers and mother writers who consider parenting to be their highest calling. We publish essays and poetry about the mothering experience.
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Ms.
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Ms. is the most trusted, popular source for feminist news and information in print and online.
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Mslexia is a British magazine for women writers. Mslexia contains articles on writing and writers and encourages independent publishers and bookshops and innovations in writing.
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Mutha Magazine explores real-life motherhood, from every angle, at every stage.
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No, Dear aims to bring together the voices of New York City poets who might not otherwise be in dialogue: both emerging and established poets from diverse backgrounds who are living and writing in New York City’s five boroughs. We aspire to disrupt a field that has historically privileged white patriarchal perspectives by building a publication and communal/critical dialogue that strives to be largely representative of women-identified poets, and poets of color and of all gender orientations.
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Not Very Quiet is an online journal for women’s poetry from Australia and overseas.
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The inaugural publication of Women Empowered-India (WE).
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Persimmon Tree, an online magazine, is a showcase for the creativity and talent of women over sixty.
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Quaint Magazine was a literary quarterly that published dynamic, arresting, and transgressive poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by female and gender non-binary writers. We were (and still are) strongly committed to publishing work from traditionally marginalized writers, giving voice to the strange, the weird, and the unsettling. Quaint Magazine was retired after six issues.
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Rag Queen Periodical has featured the dynamic voices of femme and non-binary writers.
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Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years.
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At SageWoman Magazine, we believe that you are the Goddess, and we're devoted to celebrating your journey. With every issue, you'll connect with Goddess-loving women from around the world, rejoicing in our gifts, sharing our wisdom, reaching out to our sisters.
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The Same is an online literary journal written exclusively by women. Our goal is to advance and celebrate the voices of women and girls. We want to connect women of all walks of life through the written word, crossing generational, occupational, and situational lines. We believe that the more things change, the more they stay the same, and we are all connected by the universal truth of womanhood.
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The Second Shelf: Rare Books and Words by Women was founded by A. N. Devers in 2018 to provide a space for writers, readers, and book collectors to celebrate books by and about women. The biannual publication is a literary magazine and rare book catalogue hybrid, the aim of which is to increase the visibility of women’s writing throughout history.
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We read and accept submissions from everyone for Shirley, but we especially encourage women and nonbinary writers and writers of color to submit their work to us.
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Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year.
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So to Speak was founded in 1993 by an editorial collective of women MFA candidates at George Mason University. It has served as a space for feminist writing and art for nearly 25 years. As our journal has evolved over the years, so has our outlook on feminism. We believe in an intersectional feminist outlook which includes, advocates for, and amplifies the perspectives & experiences of marginalized women and nonbinary people.
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Southern Women’s Review publishes poetry/prose, fiction, creative nonfiction/memoirs, and photography/art by southern women. We welcome work from women who were born in or grew up in the Southern U.S., or who write about the South.
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Synaesthesia is an online literary and arts magazine. We publish poetry, fiction and nonfiction monthly, and aim to engage writers and artists in an exploration of the senses. We publish work with bite, grip and noise. Each piece is accompanied by a work of (glorious) art, and we encourage submissions mainly from women and underrepresented voices.
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Taking the Lane zine provides diverse perspectives on a wide variety of topics through the double lens of bicycling and feminism.
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Torch Literary Arts is a nonprofit organization established to support and promote creative writing by Black women and girls. We publish contemporary writing by experienced and emerging writers alike.
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Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, the first journal devoted solely to women’s literature, has for thirty-eight years published groundbreaking articles, notes, research, and reviews of literary, historicist, and theoretical work by established and emerging scholars in the field of women’s literature and feminist theory. From its founding in 1982, Tulsa Studies has been devoted to the study of both literary and nonliterary texts—any and all works in every language and every historical period produced by women’s pens.
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Understorey's vision is to sustain a relevant, accessible and aesthetically beautiful venue that empowers women (defined inclusively) through self-expression and contributes to the diversity and vitality of Canadian literature and visual art.
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Vela
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Since 2011, Vela has taken steps to help close the byline gender gap by publishing exceptional nonfiction writing by women, and by drawing attention to outstanding work by women writers at other online publications, print magazines, and publishing houses.
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wicked alice is an online journal dedicated to women-centered writing and art.
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Voice Magazine for Women is a free monthly publication created for women, by women, about women and to women! Voice Magazine celebrates women’s successes, supports their growth by defining and recognizing their needs, and providing a link connecting all women, and having fun along the way!
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VoiceCatcher is an online journal that supports, inspires, and empowers female-identified writers and artists in the greater Portland, Ore. and Vancouver, Wash. areas.
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WomenArts Quarterly Journal (WAQ), an initiative of Women in the Arts, aspires to nurture, provide support, and challenge women-identified artists of all cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, and abilities in their role in the arts and seeks to heighten the awareness and understanding of the achievements of women creators, by providing audiences with historical and contemporary examples of the work of women writers, composers, and artists.
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Since 1972, WSQ has been an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality.
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Since 1983 the Women's Review of Books has provided a forum for serious, informed discussion of new writing by and about women. Women’s Review of Books provides a unique perspective on today’s literary landscape and features essays and in-depth reviews of new books by and about women.
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We are an online literary magazine by and about contemporary women writers from around the world.
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WOW! is a global magazine, designed to support women's creativity, energy, blood, sweat and tears, throughout all stages of the writing process. We envision Wow! being a favorite watering hole for professionals, the up-and-coming, and the recipients of our labors--the avid readers.
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A Journal of Innovative Writing & Images by Women. Yew publishes work by people who identify as female.
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