Literary journals is where I go to get my short work published: flash fiction, short stories and essays. I know from sad experience how hard that is and how wonderful it feels when it works.
Any editor of a literary journal will tell you that the best way to get accepted is to understand what the journal wants. It’s great advice and no longer cost-prohibitive since many journals now publish at least some content online.
All the same, I don’t normally read journals to work out a submission strategy. I just like to read them. You never really know what you’ll find in a literary journal and that’s the part I like best. Surprise me. Shock me. Plant an idea in my mind and let me go to town.
Reviews
Listed in alphabetical order by journal title.
Dystopia Now: Global Dystopias, The Boston Review (Fall 2017)
Kaleidoscope: Glimmer Train Winter 2015, No. 92
Little Public Library: Granta 63: Beasts (Autumn 1989)
Australia: Granta 70: Australia: The New New World (Summer 2000)
The World As We See It: Granta 131: The Map Is Not the Territory (Spring 2015)
Idiolect: Granta 135: New Irish Writing (Spring 2016)
Electric Literature: The Masters Review (Feb-June 2017) and The Common (2017)
Narrative Magazine: Story of the Week in Narrative Magazine, April and May 2017
On the Road: The New Yorker podcasts, Bitter Oleander, The Masters Review
Magazine Mashup: The New Yorker (Jonas Hassen Khemiri, 25.09.2017), Narrative Magazine (Art Hanlon), VERSO/ (Uprising – Seat at the Table 22.02.2018), and The Shanghai Literary Review (December 2017)
At the Antiquarian: Object Lessons, the Paris Review presents the art of the short story edited by Loren Stein and Sadie Stein
Mini-review: PEN America: Hauntings, Issue No. 19 (2016)
Mini-review: Pleiades double issue 42.2 and 43.1 (Winter 2023)
Cityscapes: Concrete, a special edition of The Shanghai Literary Review (May 2018)
Playtime: Tahoma Literary Review, Issue No 22 (Mar 2022)
Khmer Stories: Words without Borders, “Cambodia: Angkor to Year Zero and Beyond;” Electric Literature, “The Cambodian American Writers Who Are Reimagining Cambodian Literature,” 11 June 2019