Blackbird (online)
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts offers visitors from around the world outstanding fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews, as well as plays, visual art, new media, and video essays, which we present in inventive arrangements with an eye toward revealing the process of their creation.
Cortland Review (online)
The Cortland Review publishes poetry and short fiction, both solicited and by open submission. Essays, interviews, and book reviews are solicited and/or queried and approved before submission.
A Quiet Courage
Online journal focusing on "tiny words": microfiction and poetry in 100 words or less.
3 Elements
Poems and stories including three "elements" (descriptive nouns or phrases) announced in advance. Created by Mikaela Shea in 2010 as an online-only, quarterly journal.
McSweeney's
Dave Eggers founded McSweeney's in 1998 to publish work refused by other journals. Each issue is unique, down to its design and physical format. McSweeney's now attracts talented new and established authors and routinely garners literary awards.
Minetta Review
Established in 1974, Minetta Review is the oldest surviving literary publication of New York University. It is run by undergraduates and accepts submissions from around the world.
Narrative Magazine
"Sometimes referred to as the PBS of literature," Narrative Magazine was founded in 2003 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in order to use the Internet to increase the number of literary readers around the world.