Claim: Midwestern Gothic publishes written works.

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense . Literary magazines usually publish short stories , poetry and essays along with literary criticism , book reviews , biographical profiles of authors , interviews and letters . Literary magazines are often called literary journals , or little magazines , terms intended to contrast these with larger , commercial magazines .   Little magazines , often called `` small magazines '' , are literary magazines that publish experimental literature and non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers . They are usually noncommercial in their outlook . They are often very irregular in their publication . The earliest significant examples are the transcendentalist publication The Dial -LRB- 1840 -- 44 -RRB- , edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margaret Fuller in Boston , and The Savoy -LRB- 1896 -RRB- , edited by Arthur Symons in London , which had a revolt against the Victorian Materialism as its agenda . Little magazines played a significant role for the poets who shaped the avant-garde movements like Modernism and Post-modernism across the world in the twentieth century .