The
AA Independent Press Guide started life as a supplement to Acid Angel Magazine,
back in 1998. Since then, it has grown
and grown, and now over 2,000 print and internet magazines and publishers are
listed from all over the world. The one
thing that hasn’t expanded is the editorial team. That is, it is still a one-man operation, and it is physically
impossible for this one man to keep tabs on everything in this guide. Whilst I endeavour to keep The AA
Independent Press Guide as accurate and up-to-date as possible I just don’t
have the time, energy or finance necessary to constantly check and re-check
each listing. Magazines and publishers
come and go, just like that. So,
inevitably, some of the magazines and publishers listed here will no longer be
operational. There will also be
omissions in this guide: magazines and publishers that aren’t listed. You can help out, by making me aware of any
inaccuracies and omissions in this guide.
Just email me at dee@thunderburst.co.uk and let me know what you know.
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AAAAA.
THE AARDVARK ADVENTURER:
Paul Agosto, 31 Rolling Meadows Way, Penfield, NY 14526, USA.
Tel: 585-388-6968.
Email: bypaul@netacc.net
Established:
1996. Circulation: 100-150. Frequency:
3 per year. Format: 12pp Payment: 1 copy. Light, humorous newsletter
with a ‘family’ slant
ABBEY:
David Greisman,
5360 Fallriver Row Ct, Columbia, MD 21044, USA.
Email: greisman@aol.com
Established:
1970. Circulation: 200. Frequency:
quarterly. Format: 20-26pp,
photocopied. Payment: copies.
ABRAXAS:
PO Box 260113,
Madison, WI 53726-0113.
Tel:
608-238-0175.
Email: abraxaspress@hotmail.com
Website: www.geocities.com/Paris/4614
Established:
1968. Circulation: 600. Frequency: irregular. Format: 80pp, saddle stitched. Payment in
copies. Does not consider unsolicited
submissions, except for announced projects.
Colin Meldrum, 635 1/2 E. Benton, Pocatello, ID 83201,
USA.
Email: editor@acappellazoo.com
accepts email submissions
Website: www.acappellazoo.com
Established: 2008. Frequency: 2 per year. Payment:
$5 per page.
Editorial:
Literary magazine open to all creative works but with an emphasis in magic
realism, experimental fiction, and bilingual works
A COMMON READER:
141 Tompkins
Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570, USA.
Tel:
800-832-7323 or 914-747-0778.
Fax 914-747-3388
Email: service@commonreader.com
ACORN: on indefinite
hiatus
THE ACORN
PO Box 1266, El Dorado,
CA 95623-1266, USA.
Email: acorn@edwg.org Email submissions accepted
Website: www.edwg.com
Established:
1993. Circulation: 200. Frequency: quarterly. Format: 44pp, saddle stapled. Payment: 2
copies. Focus is on the Western Sierra
region.
AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW:
Joycelyn Moody,
Saint Louis University, Humanities 317, 3800 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO
63108, USA.
Tel: 314-977-3703.
Fax:
314-977-1514
Email: keenanam@slu.edu accepts email submissions from outside the
USA.
Website: http://aar.slu.edu/
Established:
1967. Circulation: 2,100. Frequency: quarterly. Format: 176pp, perfect bound. Payment: depends on length.
AFRICAN VOICES:
Layding Kaliba, 270 W. 96th St, New York, NY 10025, USA.
Tel: 212-865-2982.
Fax: 212-316-3335.
Email: africanvoices@aol.com email submissions accepted, no attachments.
Website: www.africanvoices.com
Established: 1992. Circulation:
20,000. Frequency: quarterly. Format: 48pp, magazine, saddle stapled. Ethnic literature and poetry.
AFRO-HISPANIC REVIEW:
Dr. Marvin Lewis, Afro-Romance
Institute for Languages & Literatures of the African Diaspora, 318 Arts
& Science Bldg, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
Tel:
573-884-0593.
Fax:
573-884-0595.
Email: LewisM@missouri.edu
Website: http://www.missouri.edu/~afroroma/publications/pubs.htm
AGNI:
Sven Birkerts,
236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Telephone:
617-353-7135.
Fax: 617-353-7134.
Email: agni@bu.edu
Email submissions only accepted from overseas.
Website: www.bu.edu/agni
Established:
1972. Circulation: 3500. Frequency: 2 per year. Format: 250pp, perfect bound, colour cover
(and usually including 8 pages of interior colour art by cover artist). Payment: $10 per page (max = $150). Reading period: Sept-May. Editorial: We look for the honest voice, the
idiosyncratic signature, experimental where necessary but not wilfully
so. Great work is always and everywhere true to itself. Writing
that grows from a vision, a perspective, and a passion will interest us,
regardless of structure or approach.
AGONY IN BLACK: folded
ALASKA QUARTERLY:
Ronald Spatz,
University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508,
USA.
Telephone:
907-786-6916
Fax:
907-786-6916.
Email: ayaqr@uaa.alaska.edu No email
submissions.
Website: http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/
Established:
1981. Circulation: 2,200. Format: paperback, 300pp. Poetry, prose, short stories and short
plays.
ALBATROSS:
Richard Smyth, 2
South New Street, Bradford, MA 01835 USA.
Tel:
978-469-7085.
Email: rsmyth@anabiosispress.org Email
submissions acceptable, but must be embedded within email. Art submissions have been okay as JPEG
attachments.
Alternative
email: rsmyth64@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.anabiosispress.org
Established: 1985 Frequency: usually once per year. Circulation:
100 Format: Print & Online. 28pp.
Payment: $25 for cover art/ copies for poetry. Editorial: the albatross is a metaphor for an environment that
must survive. We are therefore biased toward nature poetry but will
publish anything that moves us. We publish mostly free verse, rarely
accepting rhyming poetry. No haiku, please, and no overly didactic
heavy-handed condemnations of humankind. We prefer narrative poetry but
no straight descriptions of nature or "dead deer" poems. Our
poems typically tell of personal transformation through the experience or
contemplation of nature. We want to be moved by the poems we read.
We try to publish poetry that you would want to read again and again.
ALIGATOR JUNIPER:
Miles Waggener,
220 Grove Ave Prescott, AZ 86301, USA.
Telephone: 928-350-2012
Fax: 928-776-5137
Email: aj@prescott.edu No email submissions, but willing to respond to snail mail subs
by email.
Website: www.prescott.edu/highlights/alligator_juniper
Established: 1995. Circulation: 2,500.
Frequency: annual. Format: perfect bound,
180-250 pages. Payment: 4 copies. Reading period: May - Sept. Editorial: Alligator Juniper is
a student-edited literary journal that showcases quality black and white
photography, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The majority of what we
publish comes from work we recieve for our national contest. The
winning poem, essay, story, and photograph of Alligator Juniper's national
contest receive $500.00 usd.
ALIVE NOW:
1908 Grand Ave,
PO Box 340004, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
Email: alivenow@upperroom.org
Website: www.upperroom.org/alivenow and www.alivenow.org
Circulation:
70,000. Frequency: bi-monthly. Pays $25-50
Poetry with a religious slant.
ALLEGHENY
REVIEW
Box 32,
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335, USA.
Tel:
814-332-5386.
Email: review@allegheny.edu no email
submissions.
Website: http://review.allegheny.edu
Established:
1983. Only publishes the work of undergraduate
students.
ALPHABET
CITY:
Chris
Vannoy, c/o Poets Tree Press, 1622 > 29th Street, San Diego, CA 92102,
USA.
Email:
CVannoy727@aol.com Email submissions
accepted as .txt and .jpg attachments.
Cross-cultural,
cross-border quarterly review looking for poetry, short stories, artwork, and
photography.
ALTAR MAGAZINE:
Mandy Van Deven,
955 Metropolitan Ave Suite 4R, Brooklyn NY 11211, USA. Phone : 917-337-0443
Email: info@altarmagazine.com and submissions@altarmagazine.com
Email submissions accepted.
Website: www.altarmagazine.com
Established:
2000. Circulation: 6,000 (print &
web).
MISSION
STATEMENT: Altar Magazine believes that problems are not monolithic, and
neither are solutions. It is imperative to have socially progressive women and
men fighting on all fronts of the movement whether that is anti-racist work,
feminism, anti-heterosexism, economic justice or any other political action.
Altar Magazine exists within a community that is fragmented, but not broken. It
exists in a time when coalition is crucial and must be implemented. We believe
that the personal is political; therefore, all forms of creativity are
inherently political. We want to create a space where critical thought and
understanding happen simultaneously. This is important because before we can
create social change we must be able to re-imagine communities that foster
difference.We must be able to take ownership of that which we do not claim in
order to effectively critique this oppressive system that we know and
perpetuate. Social change is not momentous. It is a process. Our hope is that
each individual recognizes his or her place within this system of change.
ALWAYS IN SEASON: LIVING IN SYNC WITH THE CYCLES
Donna Henes, PO Box 380403 Brooklyn, NY 11238-0403, USA.
Phone: 718-857-1343
Email: CityShaman@aol.com
Website: www.DonnaHenes.net
Established: 1998. Circulation:
1000. Frequency: quarterly. Format: 12 pages 81/2"
x 11". Editorial: It is our aim to
offer information, ideas, and inspiration from cultures around the planet and
over time that can stimulate, nourish, strengthen, and support the personal and
communal practice of seasonal ceremony and celebration.
AMAZONIAN LITERARY REVIEW:
The Center for
Amazonian Literature and Culture, c/o Dewey Hall #19, Smith College,
Northampton MA 01063, USA.
Email: nsuarez@smith.edu
AMERICA
Paul Mariani,
106 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019, USA.
Tel: 212-581-4640
Fax:
212-339-3596
Website: www.americamagazine.org
Established:
1909. Circulation: 39,000. Frequency: weekly. Format: 36pp magazine.
This magazine is the vehicle for the Jesuits of North America. Publishes mainly relevant articles, and some
poetry from The Foley Poetry Contest.
No unsolicited poetry submissions.
THE AMERICAN
DISSIDENT:
G. Tod Slone,
1837 Main Street, Concord, MA 01742, USA.
Email: todslone@yahoo.com no email submissions.
Website: www.theamericandissident.org
Established:
1998. Circulation: 200. Wanted:
Poems (one-page max) and essays (650-word max) written on the edge in English, Spanish, or French with a dash of
personal RISK and stemming from experience, conflict with power, and/or
involvement. Do not be afraid to name
names! Naming names is a definite form of quality control. Include SASE. do not
submit credits, but rather a short biography of personal dissident information.
What enabled you to neutralize indoctrination? When did you stand apart from
your friends to “speak the rude truth in all ways”? The AD is against and very critical of the Poet as Conformist,
Comfy Academic Careerist, and Court Jester Entertainer. Poets and academics love to criticize
right-wing conservatives and their machine, but viscerally hate and reject
whenever they and their machine are criticized.
AMERICAN LETTERS & COMMENTARY, INC:
Anna Rabinowitz,
850 Park Avenue, Suite 5B, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Email: rabanna@aol.com or cal@americanletters.org No email submissions.
Website: www.amletters.org
Payment in comp
copies. Paperback format. Circulation: 1500. Poetry, short fiction & non-fiction essays.
AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW:
P.O.
Box 311307, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203-1307,
USA.
Email: americanliteraryreview@yahoo.com
Website: www.engl.unt.edu/alr
THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW:
1721 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
Tel: 215-496-0439.
Fax 215-569-0808
Email: duffym@aprweb.org
Website: http://www.aprweb.org/
AMERICAN
SCHOLAR:
Samantha
Reherman, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW 4th fl, Washington, DC
20036, USA.
Email: scholar@pbk.org
Website: www.pbk.org/americanscholar.htm
Established:
1932. Specializes in
essays, both personal and expository. Contributors need not be scholars. Topics
cover a wide range, from the author's own life, to the arts, sciences, current
affairs, history, and literature. Our essays range in length from 2,000 to more
than 10,000 words, though very long essays are less likely to be selected.”
AMERICAN TANKA:
PO Box 120-024,
Staten Island, NY 10312, USA
Email: submissions@americantanka.com email submissions accepted.
Website: www.americantanka.com Online submission facility.
Established:
1996. Frequency: annual. Format: 100+pp, digest sized, perfect
bound.
THE AMHERST REVIEW
Josh Friedman
& Elizabeth Galoozis, AC 2172, Keefe Campus Center, Amherst College, Amherst,
MA 01002-5000, USA.
Email: review@amherst.edu No email submissions.
Frequency:
annual. Format: 80pp, A5, staple
bound. Payment: 1 copy. Reading period: Sept-Mar.
ANALOG: SCIENCE FICTION & FACT
Stanley Schmidt, 475 Park Ave South, 11th Floor, New York, NY
10016,U.S.A.
Email: analog@dellmagazines.com No email submissions.
Website: www.analogsf.com
Art Guidelines: We are interested in professional-level, mostly
realistic work. Photographs are not normally used, but artists illustrating for
us have worked with photos, using surrealistic effects. The illustration must
be able to visually interpret the story in such a way that it accurately
represents the story, hooks the reader into reading it, and doesn't give away
the ending. The subject matter of the stories usually contain a wide range of
things that you must be able to draw. We would like to see an ability to
illustrate an entire scene; one that not only has a character or characters,
but also has a detailed background. You must know anatomy, perspective,
balance, and figure proportions. We are not a comic book company, so please
don't send samples of comics pages. Send four to six samples of your best work.
Do not send us your originals. Send only copies. They can be photocopies,
stats, slides, transparencies, or tearsheets.
For either black and white interiors or color covers, you can use any
medium. Many of our artists use pencil, pen & ink, airbrush, watercolor,
scratchboard, etc. Electronic files are acceptable as long as it is in Mac
format, eps or tiff, but please send a disk Please include a self-addressed
stamped, business-sized envelope for a response, or a large one if you want
your samples returned to you.
Payment $1,200.00 for colour
cover art. $125.00 for black and white interiors.
ANCIENT PATHS:
Skylar Hamilton
Burris, PO Box 7505, Fairfax Station, VA 22039, USA.
Email: SSBurris@msn.com accepts email submissions from outside USA
only.
Website: http://www.LiteratureClassics.com/ancientpaths/magazine/table.html
Established: 1998. Circulation: 200.
Frequency: one every two years.
Poetry, short stories, and black and white art. Editorial: A literary magazine with subtle
Christian themes, Ancient Paths contains writing and art that makes the reader
both think and feel. The poems, stories, and art celebrate God, depict the
consequences of sin, and explore man's struggle with faith. Preachy works and
overly-obvious messages are generally avoided. Quality, meaningful literature
is desired.
ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE:
Tom Moss, 3709
N. Kenmore Chicago, Illinois 60613-2905, USA.
Email: editors@anotherchicagomag.com
no email submissions.
Photo-editor: kkring@anotherchicagomag.com
(but, no attachments)
Website: http://www.anotherchicagomag.com
ANSWER
SHIRKER
Jessy Kendall,
PO Box 392, Lewiston, Maine 04243, USA.
Email: shirk@riseup.net
ANTENNAE:
Jesse Seldess,
2325 W Ainslie #1, Chicago, IL 60625, USA.
Email: j_seldess@hotmail.com
ANTHOLOGY:
Sharon Skinner
& Trish Justrich, PO Box 4411, Mesa,
AZ 85211-4411, USA.
Website: www.anthology.org
Circulation:
1,000. Frequency: 6 per year.
Susan Anthony, New England
Writers, PO Box 5, Windsor, VT 05089, USA
Tel: 802-674-2315; newvtpoet@aol.com
Website: www.newenglandwriters.org
New England Writers sponsors annual contests in poetry, fiction and
nonfiction, the winners are published annually in the indexed anthology.
Entries accepted nationwide. See guidelines with annual June 15 postmark
deadline at web:
ANTIOCH REVIEW:
Robert S.
Fogarty, PO Box 148, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, USA.
Tel: 937
769-1365.
Email: review@antioch.edu No email
submissions.
Website: www.review.antioch.edu
Established:
1941. Quarterly. Circulation: 2800. Format: Perfect Bound,
A5, 200 pages. Payment: $15 US per
printed page plus two copies. Short
stories, poetry, essays. No art
Editorial: “The
mission of the Antioch Review has essentially remained intact in the magazine's
65 year plus history. The content of the Antioch Review has evolved over the
years, with the balance between social and literary matters changing, but the
Review remains committed to commenting on the temper of the times in story,
poem, and essay. The Antioch Review publishes "the best words in the best
order," thereby defining the aesthetic criterion of the literary journal
which takes its editorial standards from the seriousness of its historic
mission. The Review publishes both established and new writers.” Submission requirements: Short Stories (max
8000 words), poetry (3-6 poems per submission), essays (max 8000 words). We do
not read from May 1 to September 1.
ANTIETAM REVIEW:41 S. Potomac St.,
Hagerstown, MD 21740-5512, USA.
Tel: 301-791-3132.
Fax: 240-420-1754.
Website: http://www.washcoartscouncil.org/projects.shtml
ANTIPODES:
Paul Plisiewicz,
Associate Editor, Antipodes, 1674 Thenia Place, Woodbridge, VA
22192, USA
Editor, Nicholas
Birns nicbirns@aol.com
Managing Editor,
Paul Plisiewicz: pplisiewicz@yahoo.com
Fiction Editor,
J. A. Wainwright darl@is.dal.ca
Poetry Editor,
Paul Kane: kane@vassar.edu
Reviews Editor,
Richard Carr: ffrsc@uaf.edu