20,000+ words

• Agni (no limit) - Fiction/Nonfiction

• The Atavist (8-30k, pitch first) - N

• Coffee House Press (novellas 20-35k) - F

• Conjunctions (often publishes long work, 20k+ welcome) - F/N

• The Drift (no limit) - F

• Epoch (40k) - F/N

• Harvard Chapbook Prize (Novella 15k-30K) - F/N (2024)

• LitMag’s Bard Books (novels, collections, novellas) - F/N/P

• Massachusetts Review - Working Titles (7,500-25,000) - F/N

• McSweeney's Quarterly (length “up to you”) - F/N

• New England Review (potential home for writing up to 20k) - F/N

• New Letters (novellas up to 30k) - F/N(?)

• Northwest Review (novellas 20-50k words) - F

• The Offing (prose of any length, including excerpts) - F/N

• Paris Review (no limit) - F/N

• Ploughshares - Fall Longform Issue (7,500-20,000) - F/N

• A Public Space (novellas & novel excerpts always welcome) - F/N

• River Teeth (no limit) - N

• Story (25k) - F

• Subtropics (will read work of any length) - F/N

• ZYZZYVA (no limit) - F/N

12,000+ Words

• American Short Fiction (15k or perhaps no limit) - F

• Alaska Quarterly Review (70 pages/18k words) - F/N

• Cincinnati Review & Prize JUL (40 pages: fiction / 20 pages: nonf) - F

• Colorado Review Nelligan Prize (12,500) - on hiatus

• Iron Horse Long Story Prize (20-40 pages) - F/N

• Litmag (15k) - F/N

• Missouri Review (12k limit but must be exceptional above 9k) - F/N

• Narrative (15k + synopsis of rest for longer) - F/N

• Pleiades (fiction > 12k will “need to impress,” 6k for nonfiction) - F

• Raritan (no guidelines but they publish work > 12k) - N

• Salmagundi (12k) - F/N

• Southern Humanities Review (nonf < 12k, fiction < 8k) - F/N

10,000 Words

• Another Chicago Magazine (Nonf no set limit, F < 7,500) - N/F

• Bennington Review (up to 30 pages, excerpts self-contained) - F/N

• Carve (10k) - F/N

• The Common (hard 10k-limit) - F/N

• Ecotone (10k) - F/N

• Electric Lit - Recommended Reading (2-10k) - F

• Granta (10k) - F/N

• Harper’s Magazine (publishes stories longer than 10k) - F

• Hopkins Review (nonf generally not exceeding 10k, F 8k) - F/N

• Hudson Review (10k) - F/N

• Joyland Magazine (10k) - F/N

• Kenyon Review (excerpts up to 30 pages) - F/N

• Lascaux Prizes (10k) - F/N

• Minnesota Review (10k) - N

• North American Review & Vonnegut Prize OCT (10k) - F/N

• Passages North Waasnode Prize (10k) - F

• Salamander Fiction Prize (up to 30 pages, MAY) - F

• Sewanee Review & Contest JUL (10k) - F/N

• Socrates on the Beach (3-10k) - F/N

• Southern Indiana (stories > 10k difficult but not impossible to publish, excerpts welcome) - F/N?

• Southern Review (rarely > 10k but will consider) - F/N

• Story Prize (under 10k) - F

7000+ Words

• The Adroit Journal (up to 9k total in 1-3 pieces) - F/N

• Baffler (no guidelines but they publish work around 7k) - F/N

• Barrelhouse (no limit but tend to publish work < 8k) - F/N

• Black Warrior Review (7k) - F/N

• Blackbird (query over 8k, excerpts welcome if self-contained) - F/N

• Boulevard (8k) - F/N

• Cimarron Review (25 pages but there can be exceptions) - F/N

• Colorado Review (no word count but usually 15-25 pages) - F/N

• Cutbank (8,500 words) - F/N

• Fence (8k) - F

• Fiction (under 5k encouraged but will read work of any length) - F

• Five Points (up to 7,500 words) - F/N

• Five South (up to 8,000 words) - F/N

• Florida Review (up to 9,000 words or 30 pages) - F/N

• Fourth Genre (try to keep it under 8k) - N

• Georgia Review & Prose Prize (no limit but rarely longer than 9k, prize length unstated) - F/N

• Grist (7k) - F/N

• Gulf Coast (20 pages) - F/N

• Guernica (fiction 2-7k, novel excerpts welcome, nonf > 2,500) - F/N

• Hunger Mountain (8k) - F/N

• Idaho Review (no limit but rarely > 25 pages, novel excerpts welcome) - F

• Iowa Review & Awards (25 pages) - F/N

• The Journal (fiction generally < 8k, nonfiction < 6k) - F

• LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award (3-8k, DEC) - F

• Longreads (typically 2-6k, but “pieces may be longer or broken up into a series”) - N

• Malahat Review (fiction 8k, nonfiction 6k) - F

• Michigan Quarterly Review (1,500-7000 words) - F/N

• Mississippi Review Prize (1-8k words) - F/N

• Missouri Review Prize (8,500 words) - F/N

• MQR Jesmyn Ward Prize (length not mentioned) - F

• New Millennium Writing Awards (7,500-word max) - F

• Nimrod & Katherine Anne Porter Prize (story/excerpt < 7,500 words) - F

• Passages North (8k) - F/N

• Shenandoah (stories & novel excerpts up to 8k) - F/N

• Southeast Review (7,500 words) - F/N

• Swamp Pink (7,500 but exceptional work can fall outside it) - F/N

• The Sun (rarely longer than 7k) - F/N

• Third Coast (7,500 for fiction, 7k for nonfiction, query for longer) - F/N

• Water-Stone Review (8k) - F/N

• Witness & Lit Awards OCT (7k) - F/N

• Yale Review (7,500 words) - F/N