Litmags that publish longer work
Are your short stories kinda long? These magazines accept submissions of stories that are longer than 6K words. An asterisk (*) indicates that the publication is online-only. For more details on these individual magazines, see my Ranking.
No stated restrictions on word count:
New Yorker
Paris Review
McSweeney’s
Conjunctions
Granta
Harper’s
ZZYZZYVA
*Narrative Magazine
Yale Review
Subtropics
A Public Space
Epoch
Epiphany
Notre Dame Review
Salamander
Willow Springs
*Decadent Review
Up to 30K words
New Letters
Up to 25K words
Story Magazine
Massachusetts Review’s “Working Title” digital releases
Up to 20K words
Ploughshares (Longform issue, separate submission category)
New England Review
Up to 18K words
Alaska Quarterly Review (18K/70 pages)
Up to 15K words
American Short Fiction
AGNI
LitMag
Up to 12K words
Pleiades (will consider higher)
Up to 10K words
Cincinnati Review (40 pages)
Southern Review (will consider higher)
Sewanee Review
North American Review
Hudson Review
Common, The
*Joyland Magazine
*Electric Literature
Southern Indiana Review
*Short Story Stack
Up to 9K words
Georgia Review
Missouri Review (will consider higher)
Up to 8.5K words
*swamp pink
Cutbank
Up to 8K words
Virginia Quarterly
One Story
Boulevard
Water-Stone Review
Hopkins Review
Southwest Review
Ninth Letter
*Shenandoah
Antioch Review
*River Styx
*Blackbird (query if over 8K)
Malahat Review
Barrelhouse
Up to 7.5K words
Ploughshares (regular journal)
Ecotone (30 pages)
The Kenyon Review
Southampton Review
Bennington Review (30 pages)
Greensboro Review
Five Points
Black Warrior Review
Massachusetts Review (7.5K or 30 pages for regular print issue)
Salt Hill (30 pages)
Third Coast
Nimrod
Pembroke
Berkeley Fiction Review (30 pages)
F(r)iction
Up to 7K words
Zoetrope: All-Story
Iowa Review (25 pages)
Colorado Review
Sun (will consider higher)
*Guernica
Michigan Quarterly Review
Idaho Review (25 pages preferred)
Harvard Review
Cimarron Review (25 pages preferred)
Arts & Letters (25 pages)
Western Humanities Review (25 pages)
Gulf Coast
*Masters Review: New Voices
After Dinner Conversation
Good luck! Long stories rule! And please feel free to contact me if you have any literary magazines to add.
Last updated: 9/10/23