Litbreak is an online literary journal based in New York City that publishes short stories, unpublished novel excerpts, poetry and creative nonfiction. It was founded by Jason Chambers and is edited by Dennis Haritou. We encourage diversity.

Litbreak will have ten years of stories, poems and essays in its archives as of December of 2025, our tenth anniversary. If you like our current, front page offerings, you are encouraged to browse. Access to the archives is free and available via the right hand margin links as specified. All of Litbreak, all ten years of it, is still online.

When you write for Litbreak, we want to keep your work accessible and online for as long as the magazine is alive. There are currently over one hundred and fifty posts of contributors’ work, live and online, and still growing. Also, you might want to check out our older site, Three Guys One Book. It’s no longer active, but it’s still online with additional stimulating material about books.

Jason Rice is our signature photographer. Many featured photographs, credited to him, appear on our pages. All of our banner images are from his photographs. Photographs are also provided by our contributors for their pieces in Litbreak, or are occasionally provided from other sources. Check out more photographs on JR’s site or on our gallery site of his pictures. JR has compiled a book of his photographs, entitled Between Seconds.

Litbreak Magazine accepts submissions year-round. Consult our Submissions page within the “About” menu for details. Please! read our submissions policy before submitting anything. You might save yourself some time that way. Thank you for considering a submission to Litbreak Magazine.

DH