"Dead Mag Walking"
The Hall of American Literary Magazine Closures
It takes a lot of work to start, and sustain, a literary
magazine. The staff of Sensations Magazine knows this first-hand, by
having published one or more issues per year for 20 years.
Why do literary magazines shut down? Lack or loss
of funding, and/or loss of subscribers or advertisers, are the main and
most obvious reasons.
But in some cases, editors decide to focus their time on their own writing
projects, or on other publishing ventures. In other cases, the
publication has fulfilled its artistic goals and editors' original
intentions, and has nothing further to
contribute to American letters.
Gone - for whatever reason - but not forgotten, here are
the American literary magazines (and websites) that
have closed down during the 20 years that Sensations Magazine has
remained in operation:
 | @TIMES Webzine (online) |
 | 13 |
 | 256 Shades of Gray |
 | A Collection of Seattle Writers |
 | Abstract Black |
 | Agincourt Irregular |
 | Alternative Motifs (Fordham University) |
 | Amelia |
 | The American Voice |
 | American Writing |
 | Amorphous Estrella |
 | Ampersand (Fordham University) |
 | Angst |
 | Animus |
 | Another Chicago Magazine (ACM) |
 | Antaeus |
 | Anthropophagy |
 | Apples & Oranges |
 | Arc |
 | Archae |
 | Arrival |
 | Artemis Journal |
 | Artragous Women |
 | Atlantean Press Review |
 | Authorprize |
 | Bangtale |
 | Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review |
 | Belletrist Review |
 | Black and White |
 | Black Family |
 | Black Ice |
 | Blackjack |
 | Blue Moon Review |
 | Black Rose |
 | Blue Sugar |
 | Bohemian Chronicle |
 | Boston Review (Print version) |
 | Bovine Free Wyoming |
 | Box 759 |
 | Bridge |
 | Bronte Street |
 | Brownstone Review |
 | Brown Sugar |
 | Caffeine Destiny |
 | Calliope |
 | Cenotaph |
 | Ceteris Paribus |
 | Chakra |
 | The Chariton Review |
 | Chicago Review |
 | Christopher Street |
 | Clockwatch Review |
 | Coelacanth |
 | Cohort Irregulars |
 | Comrades |
 | Confluent Editorial Journal |
 | Conspire |
 | Controlled Burn |
 | Cow in the Road |
 | Crab Creek Review |
 | CRANIA |
 | Crank! |
 | Crazyquilt |
 | Creative Imaginations |
 | Cumberland Poetry Review |
 | Curio |
 | Curriculum Vitae |
 | Dakota House Review |
 | Darwin's Bulldog |
 | Dazzling Mica |
 | Defined Providence |
 | Descanso Literary Journal |
 | Digital Show LitMag |
 | Dis*Orient |
 | Diversions (online) |
 | DoubleTake |
 | Dream Forge |
 | Duckabush |
 | Dusty Lizard |
 | E2K |
 | Eagle's Flight |
 | Echoes |
 | Eclipse |
 | Electronic Darpan |
 | Em Writing & Music |
 | Empty |
 | The Ever Dancing Muse |
 | The Evergreen Chronicles |
 | Every So Often |
 | Exclamation! |
 | Excursus |
 | Expression |
 | Eye Dialect |
 | Fabric |
 | Facsimilation |
 | Fiction Online (online) |
 | Five Finger Review |
 | Five2Nine Creative Review |
 | Flying Horse |
 | foetry.com (online website, extolling the
"virtues" of cheapness) |
 | Foliage |
 | The Fordham Literary Review (Fordham
University) |
 | The Formalist |
 | Fortress |
 | The Four Directions:
American Indian Literary Quarterly |
 | Fragments |
 | French Quarter Zines Cafe |
 | Freshwater |
 | Gamut |
 | Geek Poet Bingo |
 | Gertrude |
 | Golden Isis |
 | Gothic Light |
 | Great River |
 | Great Stream Review |
 | Grepoetry |
 | Groundswell |
 | Gruene Street |
 | Hairy Musings |
 | Hawk |
 | Haypenny |
 | HEArt |
 | Heightsers Online (online) |
 | Hellas |
 | Hellp! |
 | Helter Skelter |
 | Hew Hope International |
 | Hibiscus |
 | Higginsville Review |
 | High Plains Literary Review |
 | Highway 14 |
 | Hoboken Station |
 | Hobo Review |
 | Hogtown Creek Review |
 | H R (Online) |
 | Horsethief's Journal |
 | Huckleberry Press |
 | Hudson Valley Literary Magazine |
 | Hugo Boss Word Slam |
 | Hungarian Quarterly |
 | Hungry Mind Review |
 | Hyde Park Review of Books |
 | Hyphen |
 | Idiot |
 | Illya's Honey |
 | In Motion |
 | Imagine! |
 | IndiaStar |
 | Inertia |
 | Ingathering |
 | Ink |
 | Insolent Reader |
 | Interbang |
 | Intertext (Online) |
 | Iowa Woman |
 | ipsissima verba |
 | Ixnay |
 | Jack the Ripper Gazette |
 | The James White Review |
 | Jam To-Day |
 | Japanophile |
 | Jest |
 | Kansas Quarterly |
 | Kantos Review |
 | Kestrel |
 | Konch |
 | Laconic |
 | Lake Effect |
 | Laughing Frank |
 | Leapings |
 | Left-Footed Wombat |
 | Letters From All Over |
 | Lexicon |
 | Lighthouse |
 | Lightning Bell Poetry Journal |
 | Lines in the Sand |
 | Linnaean Street |
 | Lit Pot |
 | Literary Lion |
 | Literary New York |
 | Little Albany Street |
 | The Literary Review (Print version) |
 | Literary Sketches |
 | Littoral |
 | Longneck |
 | Long Shot |
 | Long Story |
 | Lonzie's Fried Chicken |
 | Lucid Moon |
 | Maelstrom |
 | Magic Realism |
 | Many Mountains Moving |
 | Manzanita Quarterly |
 | Medley of Pens |
 | Men As We Are |
 | Mendocino Review |
 | Meshuggah |
 | Mesquite Review |
 | Metropolitan Review |
 | Metro Times Literary Quarterly |
 | Mill Hunk |
 | Mind's Eye |
 | Minus 7 Magazine |
 | Mississippi Mud |
 | Modern Short Stories |
 | Montana Review |
 | The Monthly (Fordham University) |
 | Moon |
 | Mostly Maine |
 | Mountain |
 | Multiverse Magazine |
 | Mutated Viruses |
 | Mystic Fiction |
 | Naked Man |
 | Neologisms |
 | New Jersey Review |
 | New Press Literary Quarterly |
 | News of the Brave (Online) |
 | Nit & Wit |
 | North Arizona Mandala |
 | North River Review |
 | Northwest Review |
 | Notable Novellas |
 | Ohio Renaissance Review |
 | The Ohio Review |
 | Olympia Review |
 | On the Horizon |
 | Orange Coast Review |
 | Ouroburos |
 | Out of the Cradle |
 | Oyster Boy |
 | Oxalis |
 | Pangloss |
 | Pangolin Papers |
 | Paper Rainbow |
 | Parabola |
 | Partisan Review |
 | Patterns |
 | Peace |
 | Penumbra |
 | Perceptions |
 | Permutations: The Journal of
Unsettling Fiction |
 | Pica |
 | The Pinehurst Journal |
 | Pittsburgh Quarterly (Print version) |
 | Poetpourri |
 | Poet Magazine |
 | Poetry Miscellany |
 | Prairie Dog |
 | Primal Voices |
 | Prose Poem |
 | Pulphouse Magazine |
 | Pulpsmith |
 | Quanta |
 | Quasar Literary Zine |
 | Quarterly Review of Literature |
 | Rahavard Persian Journal |
 | Rain Crow (Online) |
 | Raweather |
 | Razor's Edge |
 | Reader's Break |
 | Recursive Angel |
 | Reflections |
 | Resistance |
 | Resurgens |
 | Rhapsody in Black |
 | The Rift |
 | Riverwest Review |
 | Rose & Thorn |
 | Sabella |
 | Sahara |
 | Salmon |
 | Sands |
 | Santa Fe Poetry Broadside |
 | Satchel |
 | Satire Quarterly |
 | Secrets |
 | Sgraffito Alternative Press |
 | Shades of December |
 | ShallowEND |
 | Short Story Review |
 | Short Stuff |
 | Silence |
 | Silverfish Review |
 | Simony |
 | Sisyphus |
 | Slate |
 | Snow Quarterly |
 | SNReview |
 | So Dark, So Deep |
 | Solid Copy |
 | Solo |
 | Sometimes City |
 | South Hill Gazette |
 | Southern Gothic |
 | Southern Ocean Review |
 | Sparks |
 | Speaking Leaves |
 | Sparrow |
 | Spectrum |
 | Spout Poetry |
 | Squidink |
 | Stanford Humanities Review |
 | Stange's Nebula |
 | Stoop |
 | Story (Print version) |
 | StoryWeb |
 | Stovepipe |
 | The Strain |
 | Stray Dog |
 | Strong Coffee |
 | A Summer's Reading |
 | Susquehanna Banana |
 | Swoon |
 | Symposium |
 | Tales a Poppin' |
 | Tamaqua |
 | Tameme |
 | Tea for One |
 | Templar Phoenix Literary Review |
 | Ten |
 | Tertesticulopolis |
 | These Poor Rude Lines |
 | The (Something) |
 | 360 Degrees: Art and Literary Review |
 | Timbuktu |
 | Time to Pause |
 | Tin Lustre Mobile |
 | Tintern Abbey |
 | Toad Highway |
 | Trafika |
 | Treeline |
 | Tucumcari Review |
 | Twilight Times |
 | Twin Capes Review |
 | Twisted Sisyphus |
 | Unknown Writer |
 | Unspeakable Visions |
 | Urban Poetic |
 | Using Vous Literary Ezine (online) |
 | U.S. Latino Review |
 | Verb |
 | Verbal Abuse |
 | Verbiage |
 | Vignette |
 | Virginia Adversaria |
 | Voices in the Roses |
 | Vs. |
 | Wag |
 | Washington Review of the Arts |
 | Water~Stone Review |
 | Watermark |
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