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Poetry Submissions: Top Places To Submit Your Poems in 2024

Composing compelling poetry requires writers to dig deep and unlock their knack for creative expression. It’s not an easy task, and while your ultimate goal might be to see your poems on the pages of literary magazines, the thought of getting the submission process going — the potential of rejection — might feel a little daunting.

But we’re here to make poetry submissions easier by narrowing down some of our favorite magazines and periodicals. To help you start your research, we've got information on each magazine's deadlines, compensation policy, and submission guidelines.

Be sure to visit the site of anywhere you're interested in submitting to for the most up-to-date info, as deadlines can be seasonal or change without notice.

About: “As a rule, we publish shorter poems that fit on a single page (about 32 lines), though we sometimes make exceptions to accommodate remarkable work that runs a little longer. Please send no more than five poems (in a single document, if submitting online) and no more than one active submission at a time.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: $25 per poem Submission Guidelines

The American Poetry Review

About: “The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: $1 per line of poetry Submission Guidelines

Amsterdam Review

About: “Amsterdam Review is an online literary magazine of poetry (including translations), flash fiction, interviews, review, essays, and visual arts which publishes works by international contributors twice a year, and is always open for submissions. ” Deadline:  None Compensation:  None Submission Guidelines

Arc Poetry Magazine

About: “Arc accepts unso­licited sub­mis­sions of pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English, or translations of poetry into English, on any sub­ject and in any form.” Deadline: April 1st - July 31st (for Winter issue), September 1st - January 31st (for Summer issue) Compensation : $50 per page Submission Guidelines

Believer Mag

About: “The Believer, a five-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

Beloit Poetry Journal

About: “We are open to a wide range of forms and styles in contemporary poetry. We are always watching for new poets, quickened language, and work that offers a fresh purchase on the political or social landscape.” Deadline: January 1st - February 28th, June 1st - August 31st Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

About: “Here you'll find many types of poems on a variety of topics written by poets from all over the world. You'll find poetry that can teach you new things, make you feel, and make you think. Don't see your favorite type of poem? Give it a search or make it on Commaful and get it featured!” Deadline: None Compensation: None Submission Guidelines

About: “We seek stories, essays, poems, and dispatches that embody a strong sense of place: pieces in which the setting is crucial to character, narrative, mood, and language. We receive many submissions about traveling in foreign countries and discourage writers from submitting conventional travelogues in which narrators report on experiences abroad without reflecting on larger themes.” Deadline: March 1st - June 1st, September 1st - December 1st Compensation: $20 per poem Submission Guidelines

About: “Crazyhorse aims to publish work that reflects the multiple poetries of the twenty-first century. While our taste represents a wide range of aesthetics, from poets at all stages of their writing careers, we read with a discerning eye for poems that demonstrate a rhetorical and formal intelligence—that is, poems that know why they are written in the manner that they are.” Deadline: September 1st - May 31st Compensation:  $20 per page of layout with a maximum $200 payment Submission Guidelines

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About: “EPOCH magazine publishes fiction, poetry, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. In continuous publication since 1947, the magazine is edited by faculty in the Department of English Program in Creative Writing at Cornell University. We consider poetry in all forms, including the long poem.” Deadline: September 15th - April 15th Compensation: $50 per poem Submission Guidelines

The Kenyon Review

About: “Building on a tradition of excellence dating back to 1939, the Kenyon Review has evolved from a distinguished literary magazine to a pre-eminent arts organization. Today, KR is devoted to nurturing, publishing, and celebrating the best in contemporary writing. We’re expanding the community of diverse readers and writers, across the globe, at every stage of their lives.” Deadline: September 1st - September 30th Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

About: “The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, but no more than 6 poems a year. No simultaneous submissions, or previously published works, please. Submissions are not accepted from June 1 to September 15.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

The New England Review

About: “We welcome and encourage poetry submissions from writers of every nationality, race, religion, and gender, including writers who have never been affiliated with an MFA program and whose perspectives are often underrepresented in the literary world.” Deadline:  September 1st - November 1st, March 1st - May 31st Compensation: $20 per page ($50 minimum) Submission Guidelines

The New Yorker

About: “Send up to six poems per submission, but please do not submit more than twice in twelve months. We do not consider work that has appeared elsewhere (this includes all Web sites and personal blogs). We are interested in translations of poems that have never been published in English.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

The Paris Review

About: “Send up to six poems per submission, but please do not submit more than twice in twelve months. We do not consider work that has appeared elsewhere (this includes all Web sites and personal blogs). We are interested in translations of poems that have never been published in English.” Deadline: March and September for online submissions, ongoing for postal submissions Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

Poetry Magazine

About: “We examine all work received and accept that which seems best. We consider original works written in the English language as well as translations of poetry into English. We regret that the volume of submissions received and the small size of our staff do not permit us to give individual criticism.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: $10 per line ($300 minimum) Submission Guidelines

Prairie Schooner

About: “Prairie Schooner publishes short stories, poems, imaginative essays of general interest, and reviews of current books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction . For poetry, send a selection of 5-7 poems contained within a single document.” Deadline: September 1st - May 1st Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified Submission Guidelines

About: “ We’re looking for poems that move us, that might make us laugh or cry, or teach us something new. We like both free verse and traditional forms—we try to publish a representative mix of what we receive. We read a lot of poems, and only those that are unique, insightful, and musical stand out—regardless of style.” Deadline: Ongoing Compensation: $100 per poem for online contributors, $200 per poem for print contributors Submission Guidelines

*Note: Rattle also runs a prestigious chapbook contest.

About: “We strive to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere, and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power.” Deadline: January 15th - 31st, and July 15th - 31st Compensation: Read about The Rumpus’ compensation policy here Submission Guidelines

The Southern Review

About: “The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers. The journal also features a broad range of visual artists from across the South and around the globe.” Deadline: October 1st - January 1st Compensation: $50 for the first printed page and $25 for each subsequent printed page Submission Guidelines

The Threepenny Review

About: “The Threepenny Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. It is published in Berkeley, California, by founding editor Wendy Lesser. Maintaining a quarterly schedule (March, June, September, December), it offers fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays, and criticism to a readership of 10,000.” Deadline: January 1st - April 30th Compensation: $200 per poem Submission Guidelines

TriQuarterly

About: “We are especially interested in work that embraces the world and continues, however subtly, the ongoing global conversation about culture and society that TriQuarterly pursued from its beginning in 1964.” Deadline: October-December, and March-May Compensation: TriQuarterly pays honoraria for published work. Submission Guidelines

If you're looking for even more places to submit poetry, check out our directory of literary magazines . There are countless places waiting for your poetry submissions — you just need to know where to look.

Don’t forget to check out some of our other poetry resources including our guides on how to make a chapbook and finding the right poetry editor for you.

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What is the best place to submit poetry online? Just like poetry itself, the answer is often complex. Finding the right home for your poetry can take a lot of time and research.

We’re here to help! In this article, we’ll share our 24 best suggestions for where to submit your poetry online. After that, we’ll share key tips to demystify the poetry publishing world, and we’ll finish with closing thoughts on the online poetry journal submission process.

You will want to build a publication history and portfolio before attempting higher-tier journals. So, instead of writing a general list of the best places to submit poetry online, we’ve divided our list of online poetry journals into three categories, based on your own level of experience, publication history, and goals as a poet. In order, they are:

  • Great first-publication journals: places to submit when you don’t have previous publications.
  • Reputable online poetry journals: competitive journals to submit to when you have a prior publications list.
  • High-level poetry journals to aspire for: journals at the summit of poetry that can create new opportunities for your writing career.

Now, let’s dive into the best journals for your online poetry submissions!

Places to Submit Poetry Online: Reputable First Publications

These journals will publish poetry from both new and established poets.

The following eight journals will publish poetry from both new and established poets alike. Any publication in these journals is a great achievement!

1. Thrush Poetry Journal

Thrush Poetry Journal is a bimonthly publication of “eclectic, moving, surprising” poetry. Named after the thrush, a bird with “the most beautiful voice in the world,” the magazine sponsors poets both new and established — just let your poems sing.

2. 3Elements

3Elements Literary Review posts a call for submissions each quarter. All poems have to involve the three elements that the journal chooses; for the Summer of 2020, the elements are “trapeze, pinprick, calico.” 3Elements publishes poems that combine these elements in effective and unusual ways, and this publication provides a great and challenging prompt.

3. FreezeRay

Poetry has never been nerdier than over at FreezeRay ! This journal specializes in pop culture poetry, publishing anything inspired by modern media, making it a unique place to submit poetry online. From video games to horror to modern film, let today’s media landscape prompt you into writing FreezeRay’s next great poetry feature.

4. Barren Magazine

Barren Magazine publishes monthly issues of literature in all genres. Their preferences lean toward poetry that is introspective, original, and participates in a larger literary conversation. Barren also puts out a fun selection of merchandise and has plans for future online poetry and fiction contests.

5. Ghost City Review

Ghost City Review , an offshoot of Ghost City Press, is regularly accepting poetry submissions from new and established writers. Their tastes are eclectic and embrace both the contemporary and the experimental. Ghost City also sponsors the literary community and remains active in uplifting other publications and keeping money inside the publishing world, so be sure to check out their online poetry submissions process as well as their free e-book series!

6. Rising Phoenix Review

Rising Phoenix Review loves poetry that is “visceral” with “stunning, concrete imagery.” Their tastes lean toward the contemporary, sponsoring poetry that uplifts diverse voices and imagines a better world. They are an offshoot of Rising Phoenix Press, which occasionally publishes poetry chapbooks as well.

7. Eunoia Review

Eunoia Review may be the fastest poetry journal on the internet, as it responds to all submissions within 24 hours! Their poetry tastes range from the eclectic to the storytelling, and they are always open for online poetry submissions.

8. Little Death Lit

Little Death Lit puts out quarterly publications with unique themes. They enjoy poetry that is macabre and gothic, as well as poems that are unconventional and play with the quarterly prompt. This is a great journal for seeing and interacting with new and emerging voices in poetry.

Places to Submit Poetry Online: Reputable Journals

Once you’ve got a few publications under your belt, these online poetry journals could catapult your writing toward a larger audience.

Once you’ve got a few publications under your belt, you might have success with one of the following sites. A publication in any of these online poetry journals could catapult your writing toward a larger, more reputable audience!

9. Palette Poetry  

Palette Poetry is among the best places to submit poetry online because it has options for everyone. For published writers seeking to highlight their already published work, Palette Poetry offers a “Previously Published Poem Prize.” Out of the poetry magazines that pay, Palette Poetry has the biggest pay-out, with first place being a whopping $2,500 cash prize plus publication; second place being a $300 cash prize plus publication; and third place being a $200 cash prize plus publication.

For experienced, unpublished writers, Palette regularly features poems online, and for those who are able to become “partner poets,” there is a ~$50 to $150 payout per poem. Palette also hosts a “Community Feedback Monthly Editorial” which gives new and experienced writers an opportunity to engage with—and get extremely valuable feedback from—other poets.

Rattle: Poetry is another great poetry magazine that pays. The journal puts out several popular contests and publication opportunities, including a monthly ekphrastic challenge, a weekly news-writing challenge, and an annual best poem prize. Payouts range from anywhere between $50-$200; if you’re the lucky winner of the Rattle Poetry Prize, this year’s payout is $15,000!

11. Wildness Journal

Wildness Journal , an offshoot of Platypus Press, publishes a quarterly journal for well-crafted, mystifying poems. Their tastes lean toward the highly literary, preferring works that are inventive and well-constructed. In addition to its journal for online poetry submissions, Platypus Press also publishes poetry manuscripts of at least 35 pages in length.

12. Adroit Journal

The Adroit Journal’s mission is to sponsor the next generation of poets, so their resources are often dedicated to youth poets and college-age writers. They seek works that are bold, eclectic, obscure, and daring. In addition to their poetry publications, The Adroit Journal also offers scholarships and awards for young and emerging writers.

13. Frontier Poetry

As the name suggests, Frontier Poetry publishes poetry on the frontiers of craft and language. The journal admires poetry that’s both contemporary and classical, as long as the poem advances the craft of poetry itself. Frontier is especially friendly toward new and emerging poets, and it hosts several contests every year with awards ranging from $100-$300, making them a great poetry magazine that pays.

14. Split Lip Mag

Split Lip Mag loves honesty, pop culture, and voice. Submissions for their journal open bimonthly, and published poems are often distinct and authentic. Split Lip is another poetry magazine that pays — published poets can expect a $50 payment per poem!

8Poems publishes eight poems a month. No more, no less. Naturally, a poem with such a tight publication schedule is fairly competitive, but the journal has a preference toward poetry that is narrative, emotive, and plays with words.

16. Southeast Review

Rounding out the list of more competitive poetry journals to submit to, Southeast Review is open for publication year-round. This diverse journal loves poetry that tells a story, and they make an effort to pay their contributors, so go check them out!

Places to Submit Poetry Online: The Summit of Poetry

Every poet aspires to have their work featured in these exclusive, competitive journals.

Every poet aspires to have their work featured in one of the following journals. These online poetry journals are rather exclusive, sponsoring the voices of poets who have an extensive collection of previously published work. That’s not to say you shouldn’t consider these journals for your online poetry submissions; but don’t be too disappointed if they send you a rejection letter — these publications are a reach.

17. Poetry Magazine

Published through the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine is the oldest monthly poetry journal in the English-speaking world. Poetry Magazine receives over 150,000 submissions each year, making them a prized jewel of publication credits. The journal has a leaning toward traditional craft and academic styles, though more recent publications have sponsored eclectic styles.

18. The New Yorker

The New Yorker is at the forefront of culture and has been since 1925. They publish two poems every Monday and seek work that is fresh and emotive. The New Yorker also receives a huge number of online poetry submissions annually, which is why poets often wait 6 months before hearing back; nonetheless, a publication here is a high achievement.

AGNI , the official literary journal of Boston University, loves poetry that doesn’t care about “what poems should do.” They publish works that are innovative and evolving, yet still cogent in both craft and language. AGNI’s reading period opens up on September 1st and runs until May 31st.

20. The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review , a print and online poetry journal out of Kenyon College, publishes craft-focused, language-advancing poetry. On top of its well-respected journal, The Kenyon Review is an active participant in the literary community, regularly hosting workshops, fellowships, internships, and other programs designed to educate the next generation of literary citizens.

21. Ploughshares

Ploughshares , produced out of Emerson College, puts out quarterly publications of highly literary poetry. Submissions to Ploughshares should engage in the contemporary literary conversation and be submitted between June 1st and January 15th.

22. Harvard Review

Harvard Review looks for poetry that is interested in literary techniques. The journal sponsors both emerging and established voices to, as the journal puts it, publish “writers who will be famous next to writers who already are.” Harvard Review reopens for online poetry submissions on August 1st.

23. Lit Hub

Literary Hub , commonly called Lit Hub, publishes prominent voices in the literary world. What makes Lit Hub unique is that they aren’t “open for submissions” like most journals; rather, they partner with other journals to sponsor important works of poetry, prose, and literary criticism. Lit Hub also publishes new works, though they tend to seek out poets rather than respond to submissions.

24. The American Scholar

Finishing up our list of great poetry journals to submit to, The American Scholar is a publication well-known for its business, science, and current issues commentary, but they also accept poetry submissions, which are usually published in the “Web Only” edition of the magazine. The American Scholar is tough competition, but is also one of the best poetry magazines that pay. Web Only submission pay-outs can be as high as $250.

Tips for Navigating the World of Online Poetry Submissions

Finding a home for your poem can be frustrating — there are so many homes to choose from! What’s more, many journals don’t allow simultaneous submissions or take weeks to review your poem, so some poets spend months finding publication for their work. Finding the right journal that’s accepting poetry submissions is daunting, to say the least.

It’s important to understand the poetry submissions process. Most importantly, no poem is guaranteed publication. Poetry reviewers look over hundreds of submissions for each publication, and they often have to make tough decisions about great poems. Good, publishable poems receive rejections all the time, often because a journal has a finite amount of space to publish each month.

Finally, while we think these 24 poetry journals are the best on the net, there are thousands more. You can find a full directory of poetry journals at the literary magazines page on Poets & Writers !

Despite the competitive nature of online poetry journals, you can take specific steps to improve your chances of publication.

Despite the competitive nature of online poetry journals, there are specific steps you can take to improve your chances of publication. Do all of the following before you submit poetry to a journal.

Review the Journal’s Past Publications

It’s good practice to read what the journal has published in the past. Though many online poetry journals accept a wide range of styles and forms, poetry editors still have preferences for what kind of poetry they like to read and publish. Examine the journal’s past publications with a critical eye, and consider whether or not your poem fits among the journal’s ranks.

Follow Formatting Guidelines

When poetry magazines accept online submissions, they often include formatting guidelines alongside their submission rules. It’s best to follow these guidelines, as well as general MLA formatting rules. Use 1-inch margins, a 12-point serif font, and double space stanzas. Taking the time to properly format demonstrates a seriousness about your poetry, whereas unformatted poems may not receive proper attention.

Perfect The Poem’s Title

The journal’s reader is looking for something that grabs their attention right away. A well-titled poem with a stand-out first line will be far more eye-catching than an untitled poem with a slow start. Remember, the reader goes through hundreds of submissions every month, so poetry submissions should stand out from the beginning!

Shoot for the Moon, not the Stars

Lastly, it’s important to note that not all poetry journals are made equal. The poetry world is competitive, and poets often have to secure publications from lesser-known journals before they attempt publication through a reputable magazine.

Closing Thoughts on Online Poetry Magazine Submissions

The publishing world is tough, fast, and competitive. The internet has expanded poetry’s readership and writership; this is a good thing, but with so many other voices, it can be hard to know where to submit your poetry to add your voice to the conversation. You may encounter one rejection, five rejections, or fifty rejections before you find a home for your poem. Don’t let this deter you.

Often, a rejection of your poetry submission has nothing to do with the quality of your work. Rather, poetry editors have a limited amount of space per publication, and they look to publish poems that, when read together, create a bigger conversation. A rejection can simply mean your poems didn’t work for that month’s issue, for reasons completely out of your control.

Don’t think of a rejection letter as a “rejection,” think of it as: there is a better home for my poetry.

Finally, poetry journals are subjective in their treatment of the poetry submissions they receive. After all, journals are run by humans, and although many humans try to be objective in their tastes and preferences, objectivity is impossible in the arts. Don’t think of a rejection letter as a “rejection.” Think of it as follows: there are other places to submit poetry, and there is a better home for my poetry.

Whatever your level of experience and goals for your poetry, the instructors at Writers.com can help you perfect your poems and find new homes for them. Take a look at our upcoming online poetry writing courses and one-to-one coaching options, and take the next step in your poetry writing journey.

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This blog was very helpful in finding online poetry submissions.Thank you so much for putting them out here.

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Hi there, I’m happy to hear this post helped you find some good publications to consider! Best of luck on getting some poetry acceptances.

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Thank u. Very helpful for a novice poet.

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Thanks for this list! It’s always interesting to see such subtle differences in how these publications handle things. Another young publication to check out is called the Skrews Syndication. The focus is on darker themed poetry that is shrouded in pain and ill experiences. Worth a look.

– https://loose.skre.ws

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Just to add to your suggestion for young publications The Blood Pudding is also great!

https://thebloodpudding.com/

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Thank you for that, Augustine.

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Would you recommend we submit our poetry to multiple sources? Does that work with certain sources but not all sources? Or wait for a response each time? Would love to know your thoughts, thanks!

Great question! Many journals will let you do what’s called “simultaneous submissions,” which they will specify on the submission guidelines. If you want to submit to multiple journals at the same time, it will probably speed up how long it takes to get that poem published, though be warned that some journals don’t like knowing you’ve submitted to other journals as well. Read the submission guidelines thoroughly, as well as the journal’s past publications.

Good luck!!

Thank you!! I will do just that.

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Thank you for your time. Please include The Weekly Avocet – every weekend, Editor a prompt, courteous and kind Charles Portolano, Very encouraging to emerging Nature poets. Their guidelines: If you don’t send them, we can’t share them! Share one of your Fall-themed poems, 4 photos, haiku (up to 10), Saving Mother Earth Challenge poems Please read the guidelines before submitting Only one poem, per poet, per season. Please send your submission to [email protected] Or [email protected] Please put (early or late) Fall/your last name in the subject line. Please be kind and address your submission to me, Charles. Thank you. (Just so you know: I do not read work from a poet who doesn’t take the time to address their submission to the editor, who they want to read their work.) Please do not just send a poem, please write a few lines of hello. Please do not have all caps in the title of your poem. Please no more than 45+ lines per poem. Please no religious references. Please use single spaced lines. Please remember, we welcome previously published poems. Please put your name, City/State, and email address under your poem. No Zip codes. Please send your poem in both the body of an email and an attachment. We look forward to reading your Fall submission…

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Thank you for this review, could you guide me where can i submit poems in spanish ?

Hi there, This is a great question! I don’t know too much about Spanish language journals, but a little bit of digging turned up this article: https://www.latinobookreview.com/database-of-spanish-literary-magazines–journals-in-the-us–latino-book-review.html

Hope this helps, and good luck!!

Thank you very much for this list , exactly what I have been searching for.

Best, Giovanni

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Hi, is there a journal you recommend related to grieving?

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I am looking for the same thing. Let me know if you find anything.

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I think that the Ekphrastic Review is one of the very best online magazines. They publish poems based on works of visual art. The poems can be of any style — traditional or free verse.

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I have a narrative poem about a day in the life of a Covid nurse; would like to get it out there asap.This poem is begging to be published where the most readers are likely to see it. Any journals or online publications that might be especially receptive to this poem?

Thank you! Lucinda

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They just posted a whole list of publications that might consider your poem. It seems that you already have what you need. Remember, “Good things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” -Abraham Lincoln

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Researching poetry lists today, I came across the American Journal of Nursing – which apparently accepts poetry at $150 per poem, at least at the date of the listing I was reading. Worth checking out! Good luck!

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Thank you for this informative and comprehensive article Megan and Sean. I have so far secured three publications this year with small lit mags. When do I move away from phrases such as ‘I am an emerging poet’ when writing a cover letter to publishers? How many publications do you realistically need, to then refer to ones self as ‘a semi- established poet’ (if that’s the correct phrase)? Any tips on how I can professionally convey this will be most helpful. Thanks.

Hi Neekole,

Great question! Phrases like “emerging poet” are helpful categorizations for publishers and journals, because many publications (nowadays) want to support new literary voices. Generally, an “emerging poet” is a poet who hasn’t yet published a full-length collection of poetry (48+ pages).

That said, you don’t need to call yourself an emerging poet, if you don’t want to. Represent yourself however you like! You can just as easily say you’re an “environmental” poet, a “heartbroken” poet, or a “professional” poet. Most adjectives work!

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Where would to the best place to submit dark content poetry. Stuff about the evil that man does to the planet and his fellow man greed and money and the judgment that’s coming

I think there’s already a whole book dedicated to poetry and other literature about “the evil that man does to the planet and his fellow man greed and money and the judgment that’s coming.” I don’t think King James is taking anymore submissions though.

Thank you for the information. If I get published, I’ll give you guys a shout out in my “About the Author” section. Thank you, Meghan and Sean! Now if you guys have any articles on “How to Write a Poem”, let me know please.

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Is there a good website giving inspiring poems for polio survivors? If not, perhaps there should be. There’s a lot of us around, even though the disease was eliminated a long time ago in most countries. Polio killed or crippled many; even those who recovered well may now be struggling with post-polio syndrome. I had a go at writing such a poem. Here it is:

Overnight hospital stay first for a very a very long time; when a toddler, illness forced a fearsome confinement – hours of therapy daily, no contact with other kids; the compensation has been that restriction reluctance kept me out of jail and hospital!

This poem is in the 15/6/19 post of my non-commercial blog about various subjects. The blog is easy to find, and its pictures are popular.

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I would suggest ‘ COMMAFUL and Craigslist as well. I just Published a poem I wrote in a free classified ads section of the DAYTOÑA BEACH BOOKS and MAGAZINES and it will remain their for 6 months and it did not cost me a penny either. I’m also considering starting up my own PODCAST and if I do I will be doing poetry readings on it . Brian Keith Mino

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Thank you for this information. It helps me a lot.

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Thanks for the list. It will be very helpful for me . Thankyou

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Excellent. Grouping in order of importance or professionalism is very useful.

When rejected, I think “bastards”.

‘…and there is a better home for my poetry.’

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I have a boss who would like to have a favorite poem he likes, but did not write, printed in a publication for him to enjoy. Can he do this? With which publications can he make a request to run the poem?

Hi Donna, good question! Unfortunately, literary journals don’t work this way–they only seek new, unpublished works of poetry, submitted from the poet themselves. You may be able to find some publication venues in local newspapers or periodicals, but since literary journals have a finite amount of space (and a wealth of submissions), they probably won’t consider other kinds of submissions.

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This is a very nice site to learn and read the poetry of international writers. I congratulate all behind this great creative job.

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Am grateful

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Another young digital literary magazine that has a new issue out each month and loads of opportunity: opendoorpoetrymagazine.com – and it’s free to subscribe and free to submit

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We want to read your stories!

I am establishing a micro-publishers called goatshedpress. We are going to be publishing high-quality, cutting edge chapbooks of collected writing. I would love to read your short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Contributors will receive free copies to sell/distribute, and an author bio both in the chapbook and on our website (still in development).

Email your writing to [email protected] and I will try my best to get back to you in under two weeks. Look forward to reading your work!

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Would this include poetry for children?

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Jack I am.veru interested. My poems stem from earlier experiences growing up in a segregated city..Childhood extended family experiences..self worth and identifying your strengths. I have submitted 7 collections and begin self publishing my works.

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Unpublished, new poet. Wondering what kind of info to include/not include in a cover letter with my poem submissions, Thank you.

Good question! Rather than reinvent the wheel, I’m going to point you towards this article from Writer’s Digest, which sums it up perfectly: https://www.writersdigest.com/personal-updates/sample-cover-letters-for-poetry-submissions

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Thank you for this article. I wish I had it to read when I first started submitting. My experience at submitting backs up what you say about the journals here. Folks, realize that 5% acceptance rate of your poetry is common. It’s really about finding the exact audience for your home and voice. Some of my best poetry has been submitted a dozen times and still not found publication while other poems that aren’t as good just fit what editors we’re looking for.

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This is a great list! There are so many online journals that are good for poetry! Check out The Westchester Review at this link: https://www.westchesterreview.com/

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Nice article.

Would request if you could add http://www.littleauthors.in/ in your article which caters to young adults.

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Where is good place to publish tasteful poetry with a sensual flare?

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Oh yes, I would love to know this as well because I write soft erotica poetry! It’s very tasteful and sensual.

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Please include the following CFS : CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Literature Today- January 2023 Issue

We are inviting submissions for January 2023 issue of ‘Literature Today-An International Literary Journal’. The theme of our January 2023 issue is ‘Love’. You can send us poems, short stories, memoirs and one minute plays on :

1. love at first sight 2. poem/story/one minute play in memory of a loved one 3. love as an aesthetic experience 4. love and teenagers 5. love and romance as predestined event 6. love relationships and role of gods 7. love and marriage 8. love as illusion 9. love in the age of internet 10. lovers as rebels 11. platonic love 12. love and immortality 13. disappointment/deceit in love 14. lovers as saints 15 any other theme related to love

Submission Deadline: December 20, 2022.

Submission Guidelines: 1. Send not more than 4 poems (preferably short poems upto 1 page for each poem). 2. Send not more than 2 short stories (word limit of 500 words for each story)/2 one minute plays (2 pages for each play)/ 2 memoirs (1000 words for each memoire). 3. Work submitted for publication must be original. 4. Simultaneous submissions are also welcome. 5.Send all submissions to [email protected] 6. Please send a cover letter and short Bio-data, (Maximum 100 words) in third person narrative, with your submission. Please attach a high resolution photo of yours too.

To check the free E-book of June 2022 issue please visit: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/

To know more about us please visit: Website: https://literaturetodayjournal.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/literaturetodayjournal Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/pub/literature-today-journal/96/a4a/47a Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/literaturetoday/

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Don’t forget Written Tales.

https://writtentales.substack.com

They help authors get seen and read. Worth checking them out.

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“Remove Literary, Grammatical & Syntactical Inhibition.” – Jack Kerouac – Author of “On the Road” and 15 other novels. Allen Ginsberg described his writing style as “poetical fiction.”

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This list is fantastic, thanks so much! I’ve been working on my poetry journal for years now and am finally ready for others to read my poems. 🙈

I too, have been working on my poetry portfolio for a few years. I’ve been on the website called FanStory.com and there is a 12.95 fee monthly, however it is well worth it, considering the benefits of being a member on the site. This is not only for poetry but novels, screen plays, short stories and poetry. You join and start writing. You are met with honest reviews and you have a placement on where you’re at in your particular work. It definitely helped me when writing poetry because I took the constructive criticism and allowed that to make me a better poet! You also become better at editing your own work, which is an art of is own! TRY IT❣️ Thank you for this list of poetry submissions, I’m going to certainly be submitting ASAP ❣️

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Is there a magazine that responds to submissions and pays within 24 hours of submission??

There’s also Silent Spark Press and they have e-books of diverse types of poetry and I believe they accept submissions all year long, to make sure check them out! They chose my poem titled STRENGTH last year and I was elated, to say the least! They also published my poem to a hard back cover, as well as the e-book. The e-book was called EXEMPLARY POETRY and they had diverse genrés of poetry that they accept. Check them out!

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Colorado review, a college of liberal arts center, six poetry journals looking for submissions, by alec witthohn.

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It’s April, and National Poetry Month is in full swing. There are plenty of ways to celebrate from attending readings to sharing poems with your friends and family or seeking out a new book of poetry to take home from your local bookseller. However, one of the best ways to contribute to the poetic community is by submitting your poems.

We understand how difficult it can be to find new publications and submit your work. That’s why, in honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve compiled a list of six poetry-focused publications accepting submissions now!

1. Sugar House Review

An independent nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetry, Sugar House Review has a young but impressive pedigree, having begun in 2009. Headed by Katherine Indermaur and Nano Taggart, Sugar House Review ’s approach to publishing is both collaborative and features a wide range of styles. They’re also notable for their community outreach and collaboration. Sugar House Review has worked with “churches, bookstores, art galleries, advocacy groups, grant makers, coffee shops, schools, universities, individual artists,” and more.

At the moment, free general submissions are only open to current subscribers. However, anyone can submit to the magazine’s “Sugar Suites” multimedia publication. They may also submit their traditional work as a “Fast-track Poetry Submission” for a small fee, which promises a response “in 60 days or less” and a free digital issue of the publication.

Fast-track Poetry:

  • Up to 5 poems
  • $3.75 submission fee
  • Response in 60 days or less

Sugar Suites:

  • “Audio poems, video poems, or hybridized digital artifacts”

Conduit is one of the quirkier magazines on our list. “A biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful,” they’ve been publishing an impressive collection of established and emerging writers since 1993. In 2018, Conduit opened up its own book publishing division with Conduit Books & Ephemera, which publishes both the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize and Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. Today, William D. Waltz is the “kindly czar” who calls himself Editor-in-Chief among the journal’s dedicated staff.

Poets can submit to the Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize until July 7 th as well as the general poetry queue, which is open year-round. Future themes for upcoming issues include: “ What in the World  (Wonder) and  Bad Connections  (Fun of Forgetting).”

Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize:

  • 48-90 page manuscript
  • $1,500 grand prize

General Poetry Submissions:

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3. Poet Lore

Beginning in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest poetry journal in the United States. Despite their imposing background they’ve published plenty of emerging poets right next to literary giants like Sharon Olds and Terrance Hayes. Poet Lore is headed by Emily Holland.

Poet Lore is currently open for general submissions until May 31 st . They ask that poets submit only once per submission period with no more than five poems in a single document. See their website for full details.

We’re confident that just about anyone’s first impression of Vallum: Contemporary Poetry should include the words “absolutely gorgeous.” Our only international journal on this list, Vallum is one of Canada’s top poetry journals; poems from the magazine have won Pushcart Prizes and appeared in Best Canadian Poetry anthologies. Joshua Auerbach edits this publication with the help of poetry editor Eleni (Helen) Zisimatos and managing editor and outreach program manager Jay Ritchie. Though they also publish essays, interviews, book reviews, and visual art, Vallum focuses primarily on new and inventive poetry.

Vallum is currently accepting general poetry submissions until May 15 th and submissions to the Vallum Poetry Award until July 15 th .

  • Up to 7 pages

Vallum Poetry Award:

  • 1-3 poems—up to 6 pages
  • $30 international fee
  • $750 grand prize

5. 32 Poems

32 Poems is a more selective and minimalist poetry-only journal that, as the name suggests, publishes only thirty-two poems in every issue. The journal began in 2002, founded by Deborah Ager and John Poch, but has been led by George David Clark since 2011. By publishing only a small number of poems in every issue, the staff hopes to create a “more intensive” experience for readers. This minimalist style can also be seen in the poems themselves. 32 Poems tends to publish “shorter poems that fit on a single page…”

They are currently accepting submissions since they read (nearly) year-round. 32 Poems is known for a quick response time.

6. Bear Review

An online publication co-founded by editors and poets Marcus Myers and Brian Clifton, Bear Review is one of the smaller titles on our list. However, they have published some impressive work since 2014 and are now on their seventh volume, publishing two issues (fall and spring) every year. Bear Review looks for poetry that comes “alive on the page…and has something at stake.”

This journal accepts work year-round, asking for a short (200 word) bio and three to five poems. They do charge a standard fee to help keep the magazine running and contribute to their prize fund.

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Print & Digital 2023 Editions

Submissions are open for our 2023 print & digital editions., we are reading for our 2023 print & digital editions. accepted work may appear online, in print, or both. all accepted work is considered for puschart prize, best new poets, poetry daily, verse daily, and best of the net nominations.  , submit here, chapbooks 2023, every year, american poetry journal will publish a number of chapbooks from new and established poets. we're looking for work that knows itself, and we simply can't to put down., send up to 42 pages of poetry, not counting front and back matter, in any form, on any subject, in any style. individual poems may be previously published., gods & monsters anthology.

Print & eBook Release (forthcomng 2023)

Sacred texts, ancient myths, folklore, and contemporary histories are full of little and large gods & monsters across a diverse range of orientations, cultures, and experiences. Send us retellings, personas, tributes, and personal gods & monsters. 

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Rattle: Poetry

… without pretension since 1995..

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Regular Submission Guidelines

Rattle  publishes unsolicited poetry, translations of poetry, and book reviews.

Submissions are open year-round, always welcomed, and always free.

Rattle  does not accept work that has been previously curated , in print or online—poems may be self-published on social media, blogs, or message boards, but cannot have been published in books, magazines, or similar collections open to the public. We want to be the first publisher to highlight the poems, but never want to discourage anyone from sharing their poems themselves. For more on this, read “ Uncurated: The Case for a New Term of Art .”

Rattle  does not accept work that has been predominantly generated by artificial intelligence. Poetry is a tool for expanding the human spirit, which means poems should be written by humans. It is possible to use A.I. toward that aim in some cases, so if used A.I. to assist in the writing process, please explain in the notes to your submission.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged.  If the work is accepted elsewhere, just send a message through submission on Submittable to let us know. We don’t publish anything without your signature, anyway; if another journal beats us to the punch, congratulations!

Contributors in print receive $200/poem and a complimentary one-year subscription to the magazine. Online contributors receive $100/poem.

All free submissions are automatically considered for the annual  Neil Postman Award for Metaphor , a $2,000 prize judged by the editors.

Submittable Portal

Submittable is convenient for everyone, saving paper while allowing you to track the submission and ensuring that your poems will never get lost in the mail. Please use Submittable’s online submission manager:

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We like poems of any length. Send up to four poems (or pages of short poems) at a time. We’re looking for poems that move us, that might make us laugh or cry, or teach us something new. We like both free verse and traditional forms—we try to publish a representative mix of what we receive. We read a lot of poems, and only those that are unique, insightful, and musical stand out—regardless of style. Since our issues include about 70 pages of poetry, one of the main things we’re looking for is diversity; we have enough room to be eclectic, and we plan on using it. So while most magazines suggest reading their back issues to get a sense of what they like to publish, we’d suggest reading to get a sense of what we’re having trouble finding—if you notice a style or subject matter that we don’t seem to be publishing, send us that!

Rattle  publishes about 300 poems each year, and almost all of them come from unsolicited submissions. Your submissions keep us going, and we always appreciate them.

Our tributes are usually half-issues but sometimes comprise an entire issue. Each tribute gathers poems from a specific ethnic, vocational, stylistic, or social group. We’re currently seeking submissions of ghazals  for our Summer 2024 issue. The poems may be any subject, style, or length, but must have been written as a collaboration between multiple poets. When using Submittable, please be sure to  select the Tribute to Ghazals category . The deadline for this issue is  January 15th .

For more information on future tributes, keep an eye on our  call for submissions page .

Poets Respond

At least every Sunday we publish one poem online that has been written about a current event that took place the previous week. This is an effort to show how poets react and interact to the world in real time, and to enter into the broader public discourse. As always, submit through our  Submittable portal . The deadline for submissions each week is midnight Friday. Payment is $100.

Ekphrastic Challenge

Every month we post a work of visual art for poets to use as inspiration. Poets have one month to write an ekphrastic poem based on that image. The artist and Rattle’s editor then each choose their favorite submission to publish. For more information, and to see the current image and previous winners, visit the  Ekphrastic Challenge page .

Required Information

Please include this information with each submission:

Name, Mailing Address, Phone Number, Email address

When submitting electronically, use the appropriate fields when you upload your file on Submittable, but avoid including your name or contact information anywhere within the file itself. We ignore the poet’s name while reading submissions to be as fair as possible, and this makes it easier.

In addition, please send a short contributor note for the author. Your note should tell us who you are and why you love poetry. Our notes section is something that makes issues of  Rattle  unique, and many say it’s as interesting to read as the poetry itself. Contributor notes should be in the first person, and follow the format of this sample:

Erik Campbell : “One afternoon in the summer of 1994 I was driving to work and I heard Garrison Keillor read Stephen Dunn’s poem ‘Tenderness’ on The Writer’s Almanac. After he finished the poem I pulled my car over and sat for some time. I had to. That is why I write poems. I want to make somebody else late for work.” (email address, web address, or Twitter handle goes here at the end if you’d like it included)

Notes in this form are only needed upon acceptance—it doesn’t have to be included with each submission, though we would enjoy it.

Please keep in mind that submitting to  Rattle  implies an interest in the magazine, and anyone who submits will be added to our mailing list to receive occasional updates on new issues, events, and calls for submissions. We never buy, sell, trade, or share your information with anyone. View our  Privacy Policy  for more information. You may opt out of our mailing list at any time, in writing or with an email to:

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Payment for print publication (from us to you in exchange for your work) is $200 and a complimentary one-year subscription to the magazine, including the issue in which your work appears. Contributors also may pre-order additional copies of their issue at our cost to produce. Payment for online-only work is $100.

Rights & Rules

All rights revert to the authors upon publication. To get technical, we require First Rights, meaning we want to be the first publisher to present the poems to the public. This means that we won’t consider poems that have been published in books, magazines, or newspapers, in print or online. We will, however, consider poems that have only been self-published to blogs, message boards, or social media accounts.

Though authors do retain all rights to their work, we post everything we publish on the  back-issues  section of the website after print publication, and so require Non-Exclusive Electronic Rights.

Response Time

Response times vary greatly, depending on volume and where we are in the production schedule, and can take anywhere from one to six months, and sometimes longer. Please do not query. You can check the status of submissions any time by logging in to your account at  Submittable.com .

Please note that it is not possible to revise a poem while it’s being considered. If we decide we’d like to publish any of them, you will have an opportunity to revise author galleys at that time. Please proof-read your work carefully  before  you submit—but only for the sake of your own sanity. Typos happen; we don’t frivolously discard poems because of them.

Postal Submissions

Not everyone has internet access (for example, those writing from prison). If you have no internet access and need to send your poems by post, feel free, but please note that poems cannot be returned, and we no longer reply to postal submissions unless to offer publication. There is no need to include a return envelope. Simply include your mailing address and phone number, and we will reach you if anything is accepted for possible publication. Send the submission directly to our office:

Rattle 12411 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA 91604

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40 Literary Journals Accepting Poetry Submissions

These magazines accept poetry; many of them also accept other genres, like fiction and nonfiction. A few of them pay. Many, but not all, of them are open for submissions now. They are listed in no particular order.

Acumen This is an award-winning poetry journal. They publish new poetry and poetry translations, alongside articles, debate, comment and reviews of recent poetry publications. Send up to 6 poems, or an essay. Details here .

Neologism Poetry Journal They want poems that “Feel good leaving the mouth; Use original or interesting language skillfully; and Use visual spacing, narrative pacing, consistent meter, or any combination of these to make the reading capture the reader. Formal poetry is welcome, as is writing with tinges of the dreamlike or unreal.” Submit up to 5 poems. Regarding their schedule, “Submissions are considered for the month in which they are received up until two days before the end of the month.” Details here .

Half Mystic Half Mystic is a publishing house, literary journal, and arts organisation dedicated to the celebration of music in all its forms. Guidelines for the journal say, “The theme for Opus II, Issue I is Presto, a musical direction indicating that an artist play a piece at a rapid tempo, and an English adverb meaning “suddenly, as if by magic.” For our eleventh issue we’re looking for vanishing points, beat drops, bar hops, glow stick raves, impulsive haircuts, disco ball suncatchers, man-made magick, glitter in the shadows, blurred vision, sleight of hand, immaterialism, songs half-lucid and bewitched by the myth of movement. Please only send us work that interprets or embodies this theme, whatever it might mean to you. Submissions close April 2024.” They publish poetry, prose, translations, and experimental work. Each piece should pertain in some way to music and the presto theme. Their Submittable is open for various opportunities, including submissions to the journal. Details here and here .

Off Topic Publishing: Poetry Box Series They send out one poem each month, printed postcard-style, to their subscribers. “Submit 1-3 poems of any style and theme by the 25th of each month. Poems received after the 25th will be considered in the next batch. The poem should be no more than 15 lines (including blank lines). One poem will be selected for publication each month … These selections are made two months in advance.” Pay is CAD30. Details here .

Mud Season Review They publish poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. For poetry, they say, “We respond to a wide range of poetry, and to voice above all else. We are looking for poems that compelled their own writing, emotions that purify and intensify language, and unique points of view. We are also looking for portfolios that communicate a common thread and are made up of poems that work well together. Each poem should be able to stand on its own, but the poems in a portfolio should have a collective impact as well.” Send 3-5 poems, up to 10 pages. The deadline for fee-free submissions is 31 December 2023, or until filled – they may close submissions early if volume demands. Pay is $50; and $15 for poets and artists whose work appears in The Take: Mud Season Review . Details here and here .

Iterant They accept poetry submissions only. Send up to 8 poems. They pay $50. Details here .

Seaside Gothic Seaside Gothic magazine will open for a brief submission window in January; they want seaside gothic poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Their website says, “There are three criteria that define seaside gothic literature. It is led by emotion, not reason, exploring the human experience mentally and spiritually as well as physically… ; It addresses duality—land and sea, love and hate, the beautiful and the grotesque…; It connects to the edge, living on the seaside either literally or figuratively, and has one foot in the water and the other on solid ground…” Pay is £0.01/word for stories up to 1,000 words. Their upcoming submission period is 8 th to 14 th January 2024. All their submission periods for 2024 are given on the website. Details here .

The Ex-Puritan This Canadian magazine publishes poetry (up to 4), fiction, nonfiction, experimental/hybrid work, interviews, and reviews. They pay CAD50 per poem (capped at CAD100 per poet); CAD200 per essay; CAD150 for fiction; CAD100 per interview or review; CAD50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece. They accept a limited number of fee-free submissions every month, and have quarterly cut-off dates for issues. The next upcoming deadline is 25 th December 2023, or until filled. Details here and here . Poetry Ireland Review Their guidelines say, “We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, and proposals for articles and reviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English.” Do not send unsolicited articles or reviews. See their current guest editor preferences . Send up to 4 poems, totaling 8 pages. They pay €50 for poetry, €100 for articles, or subscription (see guidelines). Details here and here . Workers Write! Their website says, “Issue 20 of Workers Write! will be Further Tales from the Cubicle and will contain fiction and poems from the office worker’s point of view – we’re especially interested to see how the home office has taken on a new meaning because of Covid and what it’s been like for those of us who have returned to the annoying commutes and communal bathrooms.” They want works of 500-5,000 words, and pay $5-50. The deadline is 31 December 2023. Details here .

Terrain.org This magazine focuses on place, climate, and justice. They publish poetry (send 2-6 poems), nonfiction, and fiction, and pay a minimum of $50. They also have an annual Editor’s Prize of $500 per genre for underrepresented writers (see guidelines). The deadline for poetry is end-January 2024; submissions for certain sections are open year-round. Details here .

The Woodward Review This is a new journal affiliated with Wayne State University, and they publish poetry (send up to 5 poems), fiction (flash and short), nonfiction, art, hybrid and digital media, and the conversations these different forms can inspire. “We’re looking for work that explodes or implodes the potentiality of language. We accept all types of poetry and encourage submissions that play around with the “page.” From confessional to conceptual, send poetry that crosses boundaries, upends expectations, and reimagines what the form can do. Bonus points for poems that make us think about something we’ve never thought of before. We’d like you to say something, emotional, or political, or natural, something that you think makes a difference merely by being spoken.” Pay is $50. They will reopen for submissions on 1 st January. Details here .

COMP This magazine is affiliated with Piedmont University; they want creative and critical writing with accompanying process notes and/or author interviews. They publish poetry (up to 6 poems), fiction, creative nonfiction, cross-genre work, critical prose, and will publish short comics in future issues. They are reading submissions through February. Details here .

Block Party Press They publish work mostly by Canadian, and occasionally by international writers – you can read about them here . They will open in January for chapbook manuscript submissions – poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscripts of 15-24 pages. Pay is royalties. Submissions to Block Party Magazine are closed. Details here . Southword This is the magazine of the Munster Literature Centre, and they accept poetry (up to 4 poems) and fiction. Their reading period for poetry is January-February 2024, and for prose, it is February-March 2024. They pay €50 per poem, and €300 per short story. Their Submittable will open during the reading period. Details here .

The Ear This annual print journal is affiliated with Irvene Valley College. They publish poems (send up to 5 poems), prose, art, and photography. They want “poems that tantalize us with images, mesmerize us with music, get us thinking, get us feeling. Narrative or lyric, formal or free verse, short or long: send us your distillations of the world in carefully chosen and woven words.” The deadline is 31 December 2023. Details here and here . (The Ear is also running a poetry prize for Orange County, California residents, see the Submittable page for details.) Pulp Literature They want any genre or between-genre work of literature up to 50 pages in length, for fiction. They accept poetry, short stories, novellas, and comics. They pay $25-50 for poetry, and $0.05-0.08/word for short stories – rates get lower for longer stories and novellas. They also publish reprints. At the time of writing, poetry was open, and fiction submissions were closed. Details here . Thimble Literary Magazine Their website says, this is “primarily a poetry journal, but we happily publish plenty of short prose and art. We are not looking for anything in particular in terms of form or style, but that it speaks to the reader or writer in some way. Meaning, we’re not huge fans of abstractions. When selecting your poems or prose, please ask yourself, did writing this poem help me create shelter?” Send 2-4 poems. They are open several months a year, see the schedule on their guidelines page. The deadline for this submission period is 31 December 2023. Details here . Wales Haiku Journal This is an online journal of contemporary haiku poetry. They publish a range of haiku poetry and special features related to the haiku form. They publish 4 issues a year, with deadlines for issues. They publish haiku, haiga, haibun, haiku commentaries and book reviews. “Work submitted may be on any theme or subject, but works that embody the nature tradition of haiku are particularly keenly sought. … If submitting haiku, please submit 5-10 pieces at a time.” For the current issue, they are seeking haiku commentators (see guidelines). The deadline is 31 December 2023. Details here .

Annulet They read poetry (up to 5 poems), prose, annulets (“a short-form close reading of one poem or one prose passage that is scholarly in approach and convivial in delivery”), comparatives (“consider more than one literary thing in relation with the other, clearly framed and defined”), reviews, paeans (“essays that can blend memoir, reading experiences, experiences of place or circumstance, or other reflections that discuss what it’s like to be writing or reading in the world”), garlands (“literary-critical essays … whose focus is on one writer of poetry or prose who does not have a book or chapbook … published or under contract”), comments (“discussion of a timely topic in poetry and poetics, or in the literary world”), and other literary essays. Details here .    Channel They have detailed submission guidelines, including, “Although we draw inspiration from local and international traditions of nature writing, as well as from the many dedicated platforms for writing on climate and ecology that exist today, much of what we publish falls outside common definitions of nature writing and eco-writing. We love work that speaks directly of a writer’s bond with and fear for our planet, and work that takes a local landscape, or a local flower, as its subject; equally, though, we love work that draws on an aspect of nature as setting, image or metaphor.” They have specific submission windows for poetry (prefer up to 300 lines for print – see guidelines) and fiction; nonfiction for the print and online magazine, as well as the blog, and art are accepted through the year. Pay is €35 per printed page, up to a total of €250 per piece and with a minimum fee of €50 for single-page works. For work published online, they pay €35 per 400 words, up to €250 per piece and with a minimum fee of €50. The deadline for poetry and fiction is 31 December 2023. Details here . The Wild Umbrella This is a new journal, and they want submissions from Ireland and abroad; this is their first submission call. They want poetry (up to 6 poems) and prose. They also accept translations. Pay is €10 per poem and €25 per prose piece. The deadline is 1 January 2024. Details here and here . Delta Poetry Review Their website says, “We accept submissions year-round and publish selected work in three issues per year: February, June, and October. Our February and June issues will be “Open Topic.” We welcome poetry with or without a Delta or Southern focus. … We prefer poetry that has both mainstream and literary appeal.” Send up to 5 poems. Their upcoming deadline is 1 January 2024, for which they are reading “Open Topic” submissions. Details here .  RockPaperPoem Their website says, “Poetry can be as foundational as rock, as light as paper, as incisive as honed scissors. At RockPaperPoem, we print poetry that sticks in your throat like a peach pit – undissolvable, unmovable, permanent. We feature poems that glide as easily as paper planes – airy, translucent, even lyrical. But we also want the sharpness of a scythe that cuts away the chaff and may even nick us in the process, leaving a stunning essence.” They publish all kinds of poetry, regardless of form or subject matter; they accept up to 5 poems, up to 2 pages per poem. They will reopen for submissions on 2 nd January 2024. Details here .

West Branch They accept poetry (up to 6 poems), fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. Payment is $100 per submission of poetry, and $.10/word for prose up to $200. The deadline is 1 April 2024. West Branch is affiliated with Bucknell University. Details here . Laughing Ronin Press: Linked Verse Linked Verse is a quarterly publication of poetry (haiku, free verse, prose, concrete poems, experiments, etc.) and fiction (flash and short stories). The deadline is 5 th January 2024. Details here . Ran Off With the Star Bassoon This is a journal of hybrid, short-form prose and prose poems. They publish short form, prose poems, hybrid prose, flash, flash CNF, micro prose, essay, and lyrical essays of up to 1,000 words. The deadline is 31 December 2023 for their third issue. Details here . (This journal is run by the same team as The Night Heron Barks – see the pinned tweet here – a poetry journal, which is currently closed for submissions.)

Poetry London This well-regarded journal publishes poetry (send up to 6 poems). They also publish reviews and interviews (query first). Pay is £30/poem, though appropriate adjustments may be made for very long poems; review and interview fees are agreed upon in advance, and benchmarked at £50/1,000 words. Details here and here . The Mantle This is a journal of contemporary poetry, and they publish 3-4 issues annually, and read year-round. “Send your odd, poignant, beautiful poems. Send poems you’re proud of, whether raw, refined, or jagged.” Send up to 3 poems. Details here .

Augur Magazine This is a Canadian magazine of fantasy fiction and poetry. Send up to 5 poems. Pay is CAD60/poem and CAD0.11/word for prose. They are reading general submissions till 31 January 2024, and submissions from Canadian underrepresented writers only from 1-14 February 2024. Details here . (Submissions for Tales & Feathers, their sister magazine of cozy fantasy stories, are also open.)

Alba They publish short poetry, 12 lines or fewer (though they may make occasional exceptions). They prefer free verse as opposed to established forms such as haiku and tanka. They have two submission periods, June and December. Details here . Only Poems They accept both fee-free and fee-based submissions; fee-free submissions are open on the first 7 days of the month. “Our Poet of the Week feature includes 3-10 poems plus an interview with the poet. We pay $55 for this contribution.” And, “We publish poets (as opposed to poems). … We love prose poems, traditional forms (ghazals, villanelles, sestinas), love poems, sex poems, speculative poems, and experimental questionnaires, but we are not married to a style or genre. Send us your most exciting work. We want poems that make us go: “God, I wish I had written this!”” Details here .

Anterior Skies This is an annual anthology of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They will publish “fiction (horror, dark fantasy, sci-fi, noir—anything macabre and weird, preferably with cosmic horror undertones), non-fiction (based on true story, investigative journalism, true crime), poetry, flash fiction. Anything and everything, as long as it fits.” Pay is $0.01/word, minimum $15 and maximum $50. They are open for submissions until 1 st January 2024. Details here .   One Art They have preference for concise free verse, but they will consider formal poems that read in the manner of free verse. Send up to 5 poems. They read submissions on an ongoing basis. Details here .

The Georgia Review This literary magazine publishes poetry (6-10 pages), fiction, nonfiction, and book reviews. They also accept translations. Online submissions for non-subscribers are charged, but there is no fee for mailed submissions. Pay is $50/printed page of prose and $4/line of poetry, up to $800; $150 for reviews published on GR2. The deadline is mid-May 2024. Details  here and here . Chantarelle’s Notebook They accept poems (send 3 to 5 poems), as well as video poems and flash fiction. Details here .

Star*Line This is the official print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association, established in 1978. It is a literary venue for speculative (including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) poets and poetry enthusiasts, and also accepts short articles on topics related to science-fiction, fantasy, and horror speculative poetry. Send up to 5 poems. Pay is $0.04/word for poetry and $0.01/word for articles. They also accept reviews, and art. They accept submissions on an ongoing basis. Details here .

The Journal of Undiscovered Poets Their website says, “While undiscovered does not necessarily mean unpublished, and previously published poems will be considered, the journal is interested in poems by writers striving to enter the world of published poets. All ages, levels of education and life experience are welcome.” Send up to 5 poems in any length or style. Details here and here .

Poet Lore This is a biannual print journal of poetry, and their tagline is ‘America’s Oldest Poetry Journal’. They publish both established and emerging poets. They’re currently reading submissions of love poetry from queer poets ; the deadline for this call is 5 th January 2024. Send up to 3 poems for this special feature; they pay $50 per poem. Their next reading period for unthemed poetry translations is 1 January-30 June 2024, and it is 1 April – 31 May 2024 for general poetry submissions. Details here (general guidelines) and here (Submittable and theme details).

The Paris Review They will open for poetry and poetry translation submissions in January. Their Submittable will close when the cap is reached, but they will still accept mailed submissions through January. They have given their annual schedule on their website. Pay is unspecified. Details here . 

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Where to Submit Your Poetry in 2023-2024

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You’ve just completed a Poetry School course and have written and edited a few new poems, so what now? Here are some places to publish and submit your poetry .

Submitting your poems to a magazine, journal, or press is the first step to sharing your work with an audience and building up a readership, which is crucial if you’re looking to publish your work in a pamphlet or collection later down the line. To help you in this process, we have compiled a list of places to submit your wonderful poems for the rest of 2023 and 2024!

poetry magazines that accept submissions

Abergavenny Small Press –

is a new publishing agency that focuses on local authors, poets and artists. Do follow them to find out about their next poetry submission window . More info here .

This is a free magazine and exhibition series based in Derry. The editors are interested in the idea of abridgement, each issue has a different theme with ‘abridgement’ in mind. They supply visual art for submissions, and are just closed submissions on 7 October 2023, where the theme was the year of 1816, which was known as the ‘year without a summer’, find out more here .  

is among the longest-running literary magazines today. Patricia Oxley started Acumen in 1985 armed with only an electric typewriter, and without subscribers or contributions. It publishes prose, poems and reviews. Read about the submissions process here . 

Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award –

Aesthetica is looking for the best new writing talent. The international literary prize is open to poetry and short fiction submissions on any theme, celebrating innovation in content, form, and technique. Entries open 1st December to 31st August 2024 . Entry details here .

They are currently open for submissions , read about their submissions process here . 

Alchemy Spoon, The –

Founded by 3 Poetry School MA Graduates, Alchemy Spoon publishes three times a year, both online and in print. The magazine showcases about 40 poems per issue, with a particular interest in publishing poets who have come to poetry following other careers though submissions are open to all. It also runs a pamphlet competition, with the winner to be published by Clayhanger Press. Follow them here to keep up-to-date with submission windows.

Allegro Poetry Magazine –

seeks to publish the best contemporary poetry. It is published twice a year in an online format. One issue is for poems on any theme and one for poems with a set theme. Poems can be of any style but should be a maximum of forty lines in length. Allegro is open for submissions from 1 December 2023 .

Anamot Press –

Queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Anamot Press is an independent small publisher based in London. Follow them here , to find out more about next submission windows . 

Anthropocene Poetry –

is an online poetry journal. Their aim is to be a welcoming space for exciting poetry and translations from any language. Their understanding of the ‘Anthropocene’ is broad, they like environmental poetry, but are not limited to it. Poems about any subject matter are welcome. They offer free submissions in June and December and their expedited submissions are always open (see cost of expedited here and find out more about submissions here ).

Arachne Press –

is a micropublisher of award-winning short story anthologies, poetry, & a Carnegie Medal nominated YA novel. Organiser of The Story Sessions and Solstice Shorts. They currently only accept submissions that are call outs for their anthologies, so follow them to keep an eye out for these and find out more about their submissions here .

Atrium Poetry –

is a poetry webzine based in Worcestershire, UK. Edited by Holly Magill and Claire Walker. Open for submissions throughout the year, however, they do close their inbox from time to time. Find out more here .

AUB International Poetry Prize –

2023 iteration of the prize was judged by Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry Tutor Glyn Maxwell. The Creative Writing team at Arts University Bournemouth , presents the AUB International Poetry Prize, they are currently closed for submissions, but you can see the 2023 longlist here , and keep eyes peeled for winners from Autumn 2023. To keep in the loop about when next year’s prize is open for submissions , follow them here .  

Bad Betty Press –

is an independent publisher of new poetry, run by Amy Acre and Jake Wild Hall. They print full collections, anthologies, pamphlets, and a limited edition mini-pamphlet series called Bad Betty Shots . Find out more here .

Bath Magg –

Founded by poets Mariah Whelan and Joe Carrick-Varty in 2019, bath magg is an online poetry magazine and a home for the best new writing. They publish three times a year: in April for the Spring Issue, August for the Summer Issue, and December for the Winter Issue. Their submission windows are as follows: February 1–29 for Spring Issue, June 1–30 for Summer Issue, and October 1–31 for Winter Issue. More info here .

Bed Head Poetry Press –

is a new poetry publication for writers exploring their experiences with mental health. Find out more about submissions here . 

is a digital platform for creative work examining ecology, the environment and the natural world. Their submissions are currently closed. Find out more here .

Black Bough Poetry –

publish micro-poems from across the world. They open submission periods throughout the year for poets to send us up to three new poems (up to ten lines each) each time. Submit here .

Black Rabbit Press –

provides a platform for voices which are culturally more marginalised. It produces slim, elegant pamphlets of work by invited writers, on a sometime basis. It is edited and produced by Mab Jones. Find out more about their work here .

Briefly Zine –

is a literary journal seeking bold, succinct writing and photography. They publish writers and photographers from the UK and around the world. They will reopen for submissions in 2024 . Find out more here .

The British Fantasy Society Horizons –

They welcome submissions in any Fantasy or Horror genre or sub-genre, of 500-5000 words and also accept Poetry and Art too. Have a look at the submissions guidelines and submit here .  

Broken Sleep Books –

are a small, innovative press, who publish a range of pamphlets and collections, from a range of writers. They particularly encourage working-class writers, LGBTQ+, and BAME writers to submit. Find out more about their submission periods here . 

The Broken Spine –

is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry. They will read submissions of poetry during the months of June , December and March , see more here .

Burning Eye Books –

is a small independent publisher in the South West predominately specialising in promoting spoken word artists. They are currently closed for submissions but do follow them here for updates .

Butchers Dog –

is proudly edited and published in the heart of North East England. They print two unthemed poetry magazines each year in Spring and Autumn. Submissions are currently open , submit here . 

The Cannon’s Mouth –

is the quarterly journal of Cannon Poets. It aims to stimulate interest and encourage the participation of members and the wider community in the writing of poetry and its presentation to the public. The deadline for submitting work for inclusion in The Cannon’s Mouth is the 10th of the month before publication. The Cannon’s Mouth is published in March, June, September and December each year. Find out more and sign up here . 

is Scotland’s leading literary magazine: controversial, influential, outspoken and intelligent. Founded in 1970, it has become a dynamic force in Scottish culture, covering theatre, politics, language and the arts. It is a highly respected forum for poetry, fiction, criticism, review and debate—essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary Scotland. They don’t accept unsolicited submissions, find out more here .

is a digital literary magazine who publishes creative writing by LGBTQIA+ people. Follow them to find out when the next submission window is here .

Coast to Coast to Coast –

publishes poetry between unique handmade covers. They are currently closed for submissions, but see the winners of their 22/23 competition here .

Manchester-based independent publishers that create biannual print collections of previously unpublished fiction, poetry and art. Find out more and submit your poetry here .  

the CRANK mag –

Most kinds of poetry will be considered, though poets who don’t engage with tradition are less likely to find a home here. They are currently looking for submissions to Issue 10, submit here . 

Creative Future Writers’ Award Competition –

Their 2023 competition closed for submissions in May 2023, however they will open the 2024 competition soon, sign up for their newsletter here to stay up to date. This competition is for underrepresented writers in the UK only, who are over 18 years old. Find out more here .

Crow & Cross Keys –

is a new, online literary journal that plucks fiction and poetry from skeletal trees and gives it a place to take root. To find about their submissions see contact page here . 

Cunning Folk –

is an independent magazine covering magic, mythology, folklore and the occult. To innovate, you have to imagine. This is something artists and scientists at the forefront of their respective fields have always understood—you don’t find new ideas only by re-visiting what is known, but by imagining new possibilities and setting foot into the unknown. See their submissions guidelines here .

Dodging the Rain –

has evolved into a poetry journal, having been founded and edited by MA graduates of NUI Galway (Áine Ni Mhaoileoin, Rebecca Spicer, and Neil Slevin) and Uversity (Dana Rabe) in 2016. They areupdated monthly with new content and are open year-round for submissions. Before submitting, please read the About page, our Duotrope interview , and at least some of the poetry they’ve published in recent months. They welcome all genres of poetry; reject any promotion of intolerance, hatred or fear. Contributors maintain ownership of and the right to republish their content. Submit here .

Dream Catcher –

welcomes submissions of poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction from writers at any stage of their career, from unknown to well known. We are not restricted to any style, theme or genre, and seek to publish a broad range of high-quality work. They aim to build on the solid foundations of this long standing and respected magazine and to encourage a diverse range of writers and artists without losing the friendly, eclectic nature of the publication. Find out more about submissions process here .

is a literature and arts journal named after Saint Ffraid , who is said to have travelled from Ireland to the banks of the river Conwy on a raft. They are currently closed for submissions, but keep checking here to find out when they’ll open again.

Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine –

They recently accepted submissions on the theme of Edge; consider frontiers and fences, shorelines and waysides; the peripheral, liminal and marginal. Consider the brink of a discovery, the verge of an extinction or the break of a day. Future submission updates can be found here .

Flipped Eye –

Founded in 2001 by Nii Ayikwei Parkes, an editor and award-winning writer, flipped eye publishing has won global critical acclaim, playing a key role in developing poets such as Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Miriam Nash, Nick Makoha, and Warsan Shire. Find out more about future submission dates here . 

Fourteen Poems –

is a London-based poetry journal, publishing the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets 3 times a year. Every issue brings together fourteen of the best poets in the world, printing their queer takes on sex, love, race, gender and life in the LGBTQ+ global community. Submit here . 

Frogmore Papers –

is the magazine of The Frogmore Press , which was founded in 1983. The Press has published hundreds of writers in its now bi-annual magazine and also in individual collections and anthologies. The Frogmore Papers operates a system of submission windows. Submissions for the March issue are considered from 1 – 31 October and submissions for the September issue from 1 – 30 April , find out more here . 

Frontier Poetry –

are looking for poetry that pushes language forward, for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do. They are always open and free to submit to, find out more and submit your poetry here .

Fruit Queer Literary Journal –

Are currently closed for submissions, but sign up to their mailing list and they’ll let you know when they’re next open. They accept submissions from anyone who identifies as LGBTQ+. Find out more here . 

The Gentian Journal –

The Gentian (pronounced jen-shun ) is a journal that publishes exciting new poetry and photography from emerging and established poets. They are currently closed for submissions but find out more about windows and guidelines here .

The Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry –

is a major international award for poems embracing ecological themes. The Prize aims to highlight the role poetry can play in raising awareness, gaining insight, and provoking concern for the ecological imperatives of our time. The 2023/2024 submissions window will open this winter. More info here .

The Goatshed –

is shelter and communion; a meeting place for travellers; a shared vision and a melding of minds. It is for people who believe in Art as Play, as the domain of the trickster, a space not defined by duty, but the crackle of possibility. At Goatshed Press they aim to deliver exciting, unpretentious content, while discovering and uplifting a new generation of writers and artists. They pay writers! Take a look at submission requirements here .

is committed to championing new voices and is open to unsolicited submissions of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. They are open for non-fiction, fiction, poetry and art and photography submissions during the following periods: 1 September – 30 September and 1 December – 31 December. More info here .

Green Ink Poetry –

welcomes Chaos, Calamity, And The Natural World. Hope Punks & Witches. Find out more here .

is a magazine of new Scottish and international writing, dedicated to creating space for poetry and prose in Scotland and beyond. We look for work that challenges, re-imagines or undermines the status quo; that pushes at the boundaries of form and function; that is striking and beautiful. Their submissions window will next reopen in Spring 2024 , find out more here . 

Harana Poetry –

Submit no more than three poems of up to 60 lines. Poems should not have been previously published in any magazine or online format. The next submission window is in December 2023. More info here . 

High Window –

this online magazine publishes work in English by new and established poets from The UK and around the world. Alongside a lively and eclectic mix of poetry, each new issue contains an editorial, a literary essay, a selection of poems in translation, poetry reviews and occasional features. They have four submission windows , find out more here .

Honest Ulsterman –

The long-established magazine was created by the late poet James Simmons in May 1968. Throughout its lifetime it has maintained a focus on openness, scepticism and subversion. It now publishes poetry, prose, interviews, reviews and features, and welcomes aboard any writer who will join it. You can see their submission calls here . 

Iceberg Tales –

is a brand new literary magazine, hoping to publish the best new and emerging writers out there! They are passionate about uncovering ambitious, thought-provoking pieces of work that we know are hovering just below the surface and are always open for submissions , see here .

IF P THEN Q –

is a publisher of experimental poetry edited by Poetry School friend and tutor James Davies. The press was set up in 2008, publishing important collections by contemporary poets. Follow them to find out about future submission periods here.  

Indie Bites –

is a quarterly indie fantasy anthology, created to promote the work of indie authors. It features short fantasy fiction (prose and poetry) from self-published, hybrid and unpublished authors, together with interviews and reviews of indie books from book bloggers. See submissions for future issues here .

Ink Sweat and Tears –

is a UK based webzine that publishes and reviews poetry, prose, prose-poetry, word & image pieces, and everything in between. They will be accepting soon, follow them here to stay up to date, or continue checking here .

The Interpreter’s House –

publishes new poetry and short fiction. The editorial team welcomes dare and rigour, work that destabilises cultural or stylistic classification and boundaries. Fiction and poetry submission windows for October issues are open 1 April – 14 May. Submission windows for April issues are open 1 October – 14 Novembe r. Find out more and submit here .  

La Piccioletta Barca –

is an arts journal publishing: short stories, poetry, prose, essays, interviews, and translations. They are open for submissions, see here .  

The Letter Review –

is an online Literary Journal dedicated to assisting writers to get published, performed, and produced. They feature interviews with professional writers, publish helpful information, run competitions with cash prizes, and are open to submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They seek submissions from writers who are 14 years and older who live anywhere in the world. They are open for submissions , see here .

Liminal Transit Review –

is looking for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction relating to themes such as (but not limited to) diaspora, immigration, displacement, borders, and decolonization. Find out more here .

The Lincoln Review –

is an international literary journal published annually by the Creative Writing programme at the University of Lincoln and sponsored by the School of Creative Arts. Founded in 2019 by Daniele Pantano, TLR showcases new poetry, fiction, translations, and art from both established as well as emerging and underrepresented voices from around the world. They are currently accepting submissions , see here .

this online magazine is published eight times per year. It publishes work with a spiritual aspect, and is inclusive in its selection. ‘Pagan, Christian, Mysticism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism – every conceivable spiritual path is welcome from the most ancient to the most modern of beliefs.’ Part of the magazine’s brief is to find unity in diversity. Littoral Magazine is always open for submissions , find out more and submit your poetry here . 

is a Pan-African literary magazine that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and literary criticism. Their submission window closed on 31 August 2023, find out more about future submission windows here .

The London Magazine –

England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today – reinvigorated for a new century – the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape. Find out more about submitting here .

Long Exposure Magazine –

was founded to feature creative writing, photography and other visual art, and explore the ways in which they can interact; how writing responds to other art forms and vice versa, and what new possibilities arise. Long Exposure now publishes a wide range of poetry, flash fiction, photography, art and illustration, as well as work which combines these forms from individuals and collaborators. They are open for submissions , see here .

LONGITŪDINĒS –

is a magazine with annual print editions and exclusive online content. Print editions are multilingual and feature texts in their original languages. Translations are published online. When open, they accept unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, drama, and visual art. All submissions must be previously unpublished. Submissions are currently closed, but see requirements here . 

Long Poem Magazine –

is the only magazine dedicated to publishing long poems and sequences. LPM showcases the best of traditional and innovative new writing from established and emerging poets in the international community. Find out more about submitting here .

Lucent Dreaming –

we are looking for poetry, prose and creative non-fiction from d/Deaf and Disabled writers who are Welsh and/or Wales based. Work could explore your experiences as a d/Deaf and/or Disabled person, or could be about any topic of your choosing. We believe d/Deaf and Disabled writers should have the space to write about whatever topic we choose. See current submissions window here .

are an indie small press, curatorial/collaborative collective, and radio programme for experimental, radical, and personal literature and art. They are currently closed for submissions but sign up to their mailing list here , follow them here and keep checking here to find out when submissions will open again.

The Lumiere Review –

is a literary magazine dedicated to shining the light on all voices through poetry, prose, and art. Find out more about their next submission window here .

Magma Poetry –

Like all the best poetry, Magma is always surprising. Every issue of Magma has a different editor, either members of our board or a prominent poet acting as a guest editor. They have a page with calls for submissions here , so keep your eyes peeled for the theme of their next anthology. And read more about their general submissions here .

Milk + Beans –

This online literary magazine accepts fiction, personal essays, and poetry, and promises to provide humour, wine, and a sympathetic ear. It welcomes anonymous submissions, and all pieces must be over 300 words. They reply to submissions between January – March and July – September , see here .

is a literary journal established in 2021, inviting dark humour and brutally honest reflections on ordinary life, minus the rules. They sit firmly on the borderlines and as such, do not provide authors with a rulebook, but rather celebrate diversity and individuality from content through to presentation. They are open for submissions see here .

was launched at the Flat Lake Festival in June 2010 and is now winner of a DAA Arts Award. This Irish magazine publishes poetry, fiction and pictures from artists in Ireland and abroad. Their poetry prize is currently open for submissions until 31 December , see here .

are committed to helping women writers progress and succeed, through their quarterly magazine, women’s writing weekend, and annual writing competitions. Check to see when they’re receiving submissions here .

New Walk Editions –

is a small press specialising in extremely high quality poetry pamphlets. Find out more about their submissions here .

Northern Gravy –

is an online literary magazine from the north of England showcasing underrepresented talent. They publish every quarter and will work with writers selected on preparing their work prior to publication. Find out about their submissions here .

The North Magazine –

is a literary magazine published twice a year by The Poetry Business, and is essential reading for anyone who loves contemporary poetry. Each issue includes: a lively range of international poetry by new and established writers, book reviews from mainstream publishers to smaller presses; critical articles; conversations with writers; and features. They are currently closed, but find out more about submissions here .

Obsessed With Pipework –

a quarterly magazine that has been running for over two decades, and is always open for submissions . Find out more about their submissions here . 

an independent, quarterly magazine publishing prose, poetry, and visual art. They are committed to elevating marginalised and underrepresented voices. Submissions are accepted from all over the world, with new issues coming out every January, April, July, and October. Submissions are currently closed but see guidelines here .

Pain Magazine –

is a print journal dedicated to new poetry and short, creative essays. The submissions window is currently closed, but do follow them on here , to find out when they reopen.

Palette Poetry –

endeavors to uplift and engage emerging and established poets in our larger community. Submissions for their Featured Poetry category are open year round to poets at any stage of their career. And they are also always open and free to submit for other categories, here .  

Pennine Platform –

is a 60-page poetry magazine, published twice a year in May and November. The magazine is independent and completely self-supporting. It is one of the longest surviving little magazines in the UK, having started publication in 1973. It was initially the offshoot of Pennine Poets, a poetry workshop group based in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with which it still retains informal connections. They welcome submissions of 3-6 unpublished poems in February and September , see more here .

P erverse Mag –

a poetry magazine for ‘deliberate, obstinate, unreasonable or unacceptable poems, contrary to the accepted or expected standard or practice’. It is edited by Poetry School tutor and friend, Chrissy Williams. Submissions for PERVERSE are currently closed but will open later in 2023 . Find out more here .

The Phare –

Phare is an old English word for lighthouse or beacon to guide seafarers, is a UK based literary magazine which true to its name, shines a light on exceptional writing from around the world. As well as showcasing creative works of new fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction, we provide writing resources: an online writers’ forum, live online and traditional workshops, masterclasses and retreats. They are currently open for submissions until 29 November 2023 , see here .

The Plough Prize –

Now in its eighteenth year, the Plough Poetry Prize is an international open competition for a poem up to 40 lines on any subject. The competition this year will make an announcement on their judges soon, and should be opening toward the end of the year (2023). Find out more here .

PN Review –

is a bi-monthly poetry review that publishes the best new poetry voices and experimental work. It is published in association with Carcanet Press . There are two submissions windows a year during the months of June and December , find out more here .  

The Poetry Bus Magazine –

provides a high quality vibrant showcase for new and more established poets and artists alike from across the world. Submissions recently closed, find out more about future submission windows here .

Poetry For Good –

A new national poetry competition celebrating the UK’s key workers. It’s currently closed for submissions but keep an eye on their submissions page here . 

Poetry London –

is a leading international magazine, where new names share pages with acclaimed contemporary poets. They also publish a wide range of poetry in translation. Their magazines are published in March, June and October, find out more and submit here .

The Poetry Review –

welcomes submissions of unpublished poems and translations of poems. They have a policy of publishing work by new and upcoming poets as well as that of established poets. Find out more about their submission guidelines here .

Poetry Wales –

is the foremost poetry magazine in Wales, publishing internationally respected contemporary poetry, features and reviews in its triannual print and digital magazine. Poetry Wales platforms international contemporary poetry from Welsh and international writers. Submissions for poetry magazine will open in spring 2024 , and they’re currently accepting submissions for Poetry Award 2023, open now – 5 February 2024 . Find out more here .

Polari Press –

is a new publishing enterprise seeking out hidden voices and helping them be heard. Find out more about submissions here .

The Pomegranate London –

is a biannual printed art and literary magazine featuring short stories, poems and essays on artists. Founded in July 2020, The Pomegranate London seeks to publish and promote innovative, fresh and experimental new work from established and emerging writers and artists from the UK and internationally.

They are currently accepting submissions , see here .

is a literary print journal that publishes high quality, accessible poetry and prose. We aim to entertain, challenge, but never exclude. At Prole, the reader comes first. We work actively with our contributors and pay a small royalty for anything we publish. Prole is published twice a year in June and December. They currently have a couple of prizes open for entry , please see here .

Propel Magazine –

is a free new online literary magazine with Anthony Anaxagorou at the helm as editor in chief focusing on work by poets yet to publish a full length collection. Six issues are published annually each by a different guest editor. Sign up to the mailing list here and submit your work here .

Prototype –

Create new possibilities in the publishing of fiction and poetry through a flexible, interdisciplinary approach, and the production of unique and beautiful books. Submissions for their next anthology will open in January 2024. Submit here .

Quince Magazine –

is a new online literary and visual arts journal that looks to provide a platform for new writing and art from emerging and established writers and artists from around the world. Follow them here , for updates for their Winter 2023 submission window .

The Rialto –

The magazine appears three times a year and each issue, with its spacious A4 pages, has fifty or so poems, an editorial and occasional, commissioned, prose pieces. They currently aren’t looking for submissions for a specific issue, but will be soon, see windows and guidelines here .

Riggwelter –

is a journal of creative arts founded by Amy Kinsman in 2017. It releases an issue once a month, and is open to submissions of poetry, short fiction, visual art and experimental media. They are currently open for submissions , please see here .

salò press –

an independent publisher of poetry & prose. They are currently seeking work for their next chapbook entitled The Flirtations, find out more here , and sign up to their mailing list for other submissions here .

SAND Journal –

Founded in 2009, SAND looks for submissions that push the boundaries of form, message, and voice in fresh and unpredictable ways – work that is haunting for its soul, edge, and truth. Submissions will be opening soon , keep your eye on their submissions page here .

The Scores –

is not a journal of student work but rather a journal edited, curated, and managed by the postgraduate students in the School of English at St Andrews working with a team of experienced editors and an advisory board of esteemed professors and instructors both within and beyond the programme. To submit your work click here .

The Selkie –

was founded in May 2018 in Edinburgh by Taliha Quadri, Lis Mesa, Chelsea Welsh, and Sonali Misra. The founders met through the University of Edinburgh while pursuing postgraduate degrees in Creative Writing, and the idea for a literary magazine was born – a magazine with representation as its core value that would extend across the boundaries of academia, culture, gender, and race, and offer the works of underrepresented writers year-round to its readers. They are currently open for submissions , see guidelines here .

The Signal House Edition –

is an online journal founded in 2020. They publish essays, non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, visual art, audio and interviews. They are physically headquartered in London, but aim to bring together the thoughts, images, works of art, and words of living artists, thinkers and makers from all continents. See submissions guidelines here .

is a literary magazine featuring entertaining, well-crafted stories and poetry from up-and-coming writers, showcasing original artwork on the cover of each issue. When you subscribe to Shooter , you support writers and artists at the outset of their careers: a crucial time when recognition can make a huge difference. Shooter publishes themed print issues twice a year, and runs competitions for short fiction during spring/summer and poetry during autumn/winter, see guidelines here .

is a UK-based online poetry magazine. Each issue features diverse poets from all over the world. Their goal is to reach people who may not read poetry, and introduce this wonderful art form into their lives. They especially encourage poems from those who are yet to be published. Find out more about submissions here .

Soulful Group –

An emerging micropublisher with 10 authors and 17 titles. They are currently closed for submissions, but you can register here for their mailing list and they will be in touch when they’re open again.

South Bank Poetry Magazin e –

From haikus to short experimental pieces to roaming ballads, South Bank Poetry accepts poetry of all kinds and aims to publish the best new writing, regardless of the writer’s experience. Find out more here .

SPAM Zine –

It is time for poetry to enter the post-internet age, and SPAM zine wishes to take upon its shoulder the weight of this herculean enterprise. They are currently not accepting submissions, but their pamphlet submission period will open soon , find out more here .

Spellbinder –

is a nonprofit quarterly literary and art magazine which celebrates and offers a platform to artists, dramatists and poets, as well as writers of fiction and nonfiction. Spellbinder was founded in 2020 by a group of students who were based in Durham, England, at the time, and who had first met at the Durham University Creative Writing Society. See their submission guidelines here .

Spoonfeed Mag –

is an online literary magazine publishing creative and experimental food writing. Submissions are currently closed but do follow them for updates for when their submissions re-open here .

Stand Magazine –

publishes fiction and poetry. Established in 1952 by Jon Silkin. Has editorial offices at Leeds University and Virginia Commonwealth University in the USA. They are open for submissions see here .

is a literary magazine. It was founded in 2008 and is nominally UK-based, although its staff are scattered all over Europe and the rest of the world. Each issue contains remarkable new short stories and poetry from all around the world, alongside essays and interviews with authors and others. They are currently closed for submissions, see guidelines here .

Tangerine –

is a Belfast-based magazine of new writing. It covers culture and politics, and is published three times a year. The Tangerine includes features, reportage, commentary, fiction, poetry, illustration and photography. Submissions are currently closed but will open later in the year , please see here .

Tar Press –

publish jarring new fiction written to suit the twitter format. That means chunks. Little chunks of prose that will appear at designated times on Twitter. These chunks will function on their own as well as in the context of their parent text, like the components of a collage. Or like the bullets in a list of bullet points. Like each piece of dialogue in a conversation. Like different flavours of ice cream in a sundae. They are currently closed for submissions, but see their guidelines here .

Tears in the Fence –

is an internationally recognised independent literary journal established in November 1984. Their bi-annual publication includes poetry, prose poetry, translations, fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction, reviews and essays by established writers from around the world. They embrace neo-Romantic, modernist and post-modernist developments in British and American poetry and have been an outlet for prominent poets associated with the British Poetry Revival as well as later generations of British, black and Asian poets. Submissions for Tears in the Fence Issue 79 are now being accepted for publication in winter 2024, see more here .

Trickhouse Press –

is open for submissions of visual and/or procedurally generated poetry. They’re always open for submissions to our Trickhouse Film film-poetry series and accept finished and part-finished films as well as pitches, find out more and submit at the bottom of this page .

Under the Radar –

is a magazine of new contemporary writing and is published three times a year by Nine Arches Press . We welcome submissions of new poetry and short fiction to Under the Radar . They are currently open for submissions until 7 December 2023 , see here .

is a literary and arts magazine with a focus on current events. It aims to bring together emerging artists and writers from all over the world in order to showcase their talents and give them exposure and recognition. They are currently accepting submissions , see here .

Verve Poetry Press –

is a prize-winning Birmingham based publisher dedicated to promoting and showcasing Birmingham and Midlands poetic talent in colourful and exciting ways. See their guidelines and submission windows here .

Shortlisted in the Michael Marks Publishers’ Award 2017, V. Press is an independent publisher of poetry and flash fiction. To learn more about their future submission periods click here .

has published the very best works of and on international contemporary writing and culture, placing critics alongside leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, to generate exciting cross-genre and inter-regional conversations. They welcome innovative creative and critical writing that, in form, focus, or theme, seeks to expand the boundaries of global literary culture. They are currently closed for poetry submissions, see when their next submission window is here .

The Wells Street Journal –

is a London-based biannual literary anthology of poetry and prose run by the University of Westminster’s Creative Writing: Writing the City MA students. Founded in 2014, it was aptly named after the street in which the department of English, Linguistics and Cultural studies was hosted. See updates here .

was founded in 2015, is edited by Michelle and Peter. The journal has featured work from Ruth Awad, Zeina Hashem Beck, Chen Chen, Bhanu Kapil, Salena Godden, Carl Phillips, Mary Ruefle, Richard Siken, Clint Smith, Brandon Taylor, among others. They are currently open for submissions , see here . 

Zeno Press –

is a London based, brand new independent press founded by Christian Patracchini. The catalogue consists of poetry, experimental writing, art, sound, performance art and essays and is dedicated to work of interdisciplinary reach, inquiring critically but especially creatively into ideas. They’re not currently open for submissions, but follow their news page here .

is a publishing project releasing literary objects and administered by Tom Jenks. More info here .

3am Magazine –

an online magazine accepting submissions and pitches for pieces of fiction, poetry, essays and reviews. They are currently closed for submissions but keep up to date here .

As a further resource, we recommend poetsdirectory.co.uk/magazines .

and https://www.neonbooks.org.uk/big-list-literary-magazines/ .

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Submission Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in Black Fox ! Black Fox Literary Magazine is an international print and online biannual publication featuring quality fiction of all styles and genres, poetry, and nonfiction. We publish one summer issue and one winter issue each year. We accept general submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for each issue during the following periods:

Summer (2023) Issue Submission Period: January 1, 2024 – May 31, 2024.

Winter (2024) Issue Submission Period: July 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024.

Submissions received after the last day of the submission period will not be considered for that issue. Please send only one submission per submission period.

We accept submissions for the following categories year-round:

Submission with Donation Submission with Expedited Response of 4 Weeks Submission with Expedited Response of 2 Weeks Submission with Feedback (Fiction Only) Art Blog Posts

We are looking for artwork to feature on the covers of our issues. We prefer art that can be displayed on our cover in portrait format. Please do not send more than five pieces of art at a time. If submitting multiple pieces, we prefer images to be in one document. Review previous issues to get a feel for our tastes. Send your best artwork, including drawings, photographs, etc. through our submission manager found here .

We’re always looking for quality fiction to publish in our biannual issues. We accept work based on merit and not based on genre. We enjoy receiving submissions from under-represented genres such as: YA, romance, flash fiction, mystery, etc. We ask that you keep submissions to 5,000 words or less and follow our guidelines for preparing your manuscript. Submit your fiction through our submission manager found here .

Creative Nonfiction

We’re looking for personal essays and other creative nonfiction. There is no submission fee, but please prepare your manuscript according to our guidelines. Submit your creative nonfiction through our submission manager found here .

Please send only three poems at a time in one document. Poems do not have to be double spaced, but poets should still use Times New Roman, 12 pt. font and the poet’s last name/page number should still appear in the top right hand corner of every page. Poets, please keep in mind that our issue pages are 6×9. For this reason, poems with particularly long lines often don’t work well. Submit your poetry through our submission manager found here .

We’re always looking for contributors for the Black Fox blog. We are particularly interested in articles on the craft of writing, personal essays on writing, book reviews, book news, and publishing news. If it’s writing, book, or publishing related, then this is the place for it. If we like your article we’ll publish it to our blog. Submit your articles through our submission manager found here .

Preparing Your Manuscript:

Please make sure your manuscript is double-spaced with 12 point font (Times New Roman). Submissions should be no more than 5,000 words. Author’s name and page number should appear in the top right hand corner of every page.

We accept submissions through our submission manager found here . We only accept online submissions. We DO NOT accept submissions by email. If submissions are sent via email they will be automatically discarded without notice. Send only one submission per submission period . We do not accept previously published work. We accept simultaneous submissions, but we ask that you withdraw your work via Submittable (add a note if withdrawing one poem at a time) if your work is accepted elsewhere. Past contributors, please wait until at least one full submission period has passed before submitting again. Please note: we aim for a 3-4 month response time, but please feel free to inquire if you haven’t heard from us in 6 months.

As of August 2023, Black Fox will pay each contributor of our issues $20 each. We are working on increasing this rate in the future! We are not able to supply contributor copies at this time, however all of our issues are available via our website for free. Accepted writers will be published in one of our issues depending on the submission period. The first place winner of our biannual writing contest receives a cash prize of $300 and winners of our Fox Tales Contest series receive $100 plus a Black Fox Prize Pack comprised of writerly items.

Rights Policy

Black Fox Literary Magazine holds first North American serial rights for 60 days after publication. Authors agree not to publish, or authorize publication of any part of the material for 60 days following first publication. Should an author’s work be reprinted elsewhere after the 60-day period, we kindly ask that Black Fox Literary Magazine be given credit as the first publisher.

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July 11, 2020 at 8:15 AM

I would like to submit a few poems, based on our Black brothers unfair treatment and hardship.

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March 1, 2021 at 3:56 PM

We welcome your submissions.

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September 25, 2020 at 6:22 PM

Is there a submission form? Couldn’t find it, thanks!

March 1, 2021 at 3:54 PM

Follow the links above to reach our submission manager

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November 23, 2020 at 1:59 PM

I see that you do not accept previously published pieces; however, I am curious if you count something shared behind a paywall on an author’s Patreon (or similar) page as previously published? How about something posted publicly on a site like that or an author’s personal blog? Would it depend on the number of views?

I wouldn’t have asked this question even five years ago, but I know attitudes are changing across the industry, and I’ve found in the last couple years, preferences about this differ from publication to publication and sometimes even between editors at the same publication. Thanks so much for any guidance you can provide.

March 1, 2021 at 3:55 PM

We do not accept previously published pieces, this includes anything posted online.

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April 7, 2021 at 11:21 PM

I do not see a Submission with Feedback option for fiction. Does that still exist?

June 15, 2021 at 2:55 PM

That option is not currently available, but we do plan to reopen it in the near future.

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October 20, 2021 at 11:06 PM

When you indicate one submission per submission period, I assume that means the two submission periods noted above; however, there are four categories noted that allow submissions all year round. What is the difference? In addition, is that one submission per category or one submission across all categories (fiction, nonfiction, etc.)? Thank you!

January 5, 2022 at 3:15 PM

Hello William, thank you for your excellent inquiry! We definitely need to update our text to read more accurately given that we now have some submissions open year round. Please submit only one submission, across all categories, at a time. So, if you have an open submission into us, one that we have not decided upon yet, then please do not submit another until we have closed the existing one with a decision. Thanks again for your inquiry.

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November 27, 2021 at 11:42 PM

Are you still accepting photography? I didn’t see it listed on the Submittable page. Thanks.

January 5, 2022 at 3:12 PM

Of course, we do accept photography under our Art submissions. We use art for our covers, so if you have a photograph you think meets our cover aesthetic, please feel free to submit. Happy New Year!

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March 6, 2022 at 12:18 PM

Do you have any interest in publishing any poems about the war in Ukraine?

March 6, 2022 at 6:59 PM

Hi William,

We are interested in publishing a wide variety of topics in our journal. We would enjoy reading your work.

Thank you for your note! Elizabeth

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April 3, 2022 at 2:46 PM

I am currently preparing to self-pub a book of 13 of my short stories (with annotations on each story), and 16 essays. The title will be “Studies in Fiction.” Eleven of the stories have been published in various literary journals over the past several years. Of the two that haven’t been published, “Death Leap,” a parody on reality television, is the best. It’s funny, a bit macabre, and touching, but it’s way too long for you, 12,000 words. The other unpublished story, “Negative Twenty Questions,” is a sci-fi story about the artificial intelligence “singularity”—when AI goes too far and things turn very bad for civilization. This story is 4,047 words, and the annotation for it, which is both entertaining and instructive, is 1,565 words. That’s a total of 5,612. Is your upper limit of 5,000 words inflexible, or might you be interested in looking at these conjoined twins? Some of my essays might be suitable for your blog, if we could arrange publication in conjunction with my book. Thanks for any guidance you are able to provide.

April 4, 2022 at 7:34 PM

Thanks for reaching out to Black Fox! 5000 words is our upper limit for the magazine. The limit for our blog is much less. If you feel the smaller story could run sans annotation, then we might consider it. Of course, we review everything that is submitted.

Best of luck with your work! Elizabeth

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April 19, 2022 at 11:46 AM

Are sim subs allowed for the curennt short fiction contest? I don’t see anything one way to the other in the contest guidelines.

Thank you, M

April 19, 2022 at 3:58 PM

Our summer writing contest is open to poetry, nonfiction, and fiction submissions. We do accept simultaneous submissions and ask that you withdraw your submission immediately upon learning it has been accepted elsewhere. Please keep in mind that reading and contest fees are nonrefundable.

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April 22, 2022 at 3:32 PM

How do you submit online when there is not link?

April 22, 2022 at 6:06 PM

There are multiple links above from which to submit through our submission manager.

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February 11, 2023 at 8:56 PM

After reading a few questions regarding links, I suspect the problem might that the light gray on a white background might be the problem.

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August 31, 2022 at 3:30 PM

Would you be interested in an article dealing with the grief and healing process of a Black mother of a fatal shooting victim?

September 1, 2022 at 7:22 PM

We do accept creative nonfiction work which includes personal essays. You’re welcome to submit your work and give our readers the opportunity to weigh in on it. Thanks for inquiring! Elizabeth

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November 2, 2022 at 6:23 AM

I already submitted a flash fiction piece for the Winter issue. However, I’m curious if the “one submission per period” rule applies to the writing contest as well. Can I also submit to this or is it not permitted? Thank you.

November 29, 2022 at 7:48 PM

Hi Kevin, Yes, it is all right to submit to the contest even if you’ve already submitted for the period. Thanks!

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March 30, 2023 at 9:22 PM

Hi. I just sent in a submission. I know the form was periodically automatically saved–but I did not click on save just before hitting submit. Was everything was filled in properly –saved–on the form? (This question may remind others to save!) Thank you.

April 11, 2023 at 11:28 AM

Patricia, everything appears to be in order! Best wishes!

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April 7, 2023 at 10:27 AM

Thank you very much for having a comments section. I learned a lot about your publication and vibe from the lively Q & A. I look forward to submitting.

April 11, 2023 at 11:29 AM

Hi Calla, thanks for submitting! Best wishes!

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April 26, 2023 at 2:03 AM

Any chance you would raise the word count higher than 5K? I have a story that fits your parameters but exceeds your word count. Thank you.

May 1, 2023 at 1:19 PM

We are not going to change our word count. We love to publish as many pieces as possible, and must be mindful of our pages.

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April 26, 2023 at 6:37 PM

Is the 5000 word limit cast in stone, or can one squeeze in a few more words. I do hate to cut stuff.

In the interest of keeping it fair, we keep to our word count.

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May 11, 2023 at 12:17 PM

Does your magazine publish high school writers, or is your magazine against that?

May 15, 2023 at 6:35 PM

Hi Bronson, We have published high school students in the past. We are not opposed to it. Best wishes, Elizabeth

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May 11, 2023 at 2:03 PM

Do you accept submissions from Canada?

Hi Sandra, we accept submissions from anywhere in the world!

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May 15, 2023 at 6:07 PM

Where do I send my work? Is there an email or website? Do I have to provide a cover letter or anything else ?

May 15, 2023 at 6:37 PM

Jules, submit via our Submittable portal, accessible through our website. https://www.blackfoxlitmag.com/submit/ If you hover over the text that says “found here” at the end of each genre section.

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May 25, 2023 at 12:38 PM

For flash fiction, do you accept more than one flash piece at a time? Ex, each piece has to be less than 1000 words, but can have up to 2 pieces in the same document.

May 30, 2023 at 1:11 PM

Yes, Gina, you may send two pieces of flash fiction in one submission.

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May 28, 2023 at 4:17 PM

You have a category for Flash Fiction but not for Flash Nonfiction. Are you interested in the latter and, if so, would it be submitted under FF or NF? Thanks!!

May 30, 2023 at 1:12 PM

Please submit nonfiction under the nonfiction category, regardless of length. Thanks!

May 29, 2023 at 12:54 PM

How many submissions do you accept for fiction and flash fiction? Multiple or one?

May 30, 2023 at 1:13 PM

We ask that you submit only once during the free submission period, unless you are submitting for a paid service or the contest.

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June 6, 2023 at 9:07 AM

I wrote peice on being a twin and the positives, negatives, and just they way people treated me for being on.

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June 17, 2023 at 7:38 AM

Hello, will you accept Flash Fiction for your contest? I have a fiction piece that fits your theme of “Secrets” but it is just under 1000 words. Thank you!

June 18, 2023 at 4:45 PM

Yes, we will accept flash fiction for the contest.

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July 24, 2023 at 3:14 AM

This is Conrad from the Philippines and I wish to publish some of my poems and essays for your perusal.

August 7, 2023 at 12:32 PM

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

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September 14, 2023 at 2:43 AM

Hello. I just wanted to further clarify the subject of previously published works. If I’ve put only a small excerpt (as in, no more than a paragraph or two at best out of nearly 5,000 words) online, would the entire work or even the section of that work that I’ve posted be considered previously published?

September 21, 2023 at 12:40 PM

Hi Claire, Any portion of work you’ve published online is considered previously published. That is to say, the excerpt is considered published, not whatever piece the excerpt belongs to. If you were to remove that excerpt from the larger piece, then that larger work is something we would consider publishing. I hope that helps!

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October 12, 2023 at 11:56 AM

Greetings. Look forward to submitting to current theme – but want to be sure about content – are sexual references ‘not acceptable’ – sex, in-of-itself, taboo? Thanks for clarifying. Gavin Kayner

October 24, 2023 at 6:06 PM

You might read our back issues to get an idea of what we generally publish. I can’t recall a time when we’ve published explicit sex content.

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December 11, 2023 at 6:18 PM

Hello! I’m wondering what mistakes you commonly see with submissions. It looks like my recent submission was passed over due to an issue with the guidelines but I can’t for the life of me figure out what I did incorrectly. Thanks!

December 19, 2023 at 7:01 PM

Sharon, your poetry submission should be 12 point Times New Roman font, and have your name and the page number in the upper right hand corner of each page. Hope that helps!

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To find out what lit mags are favored by editors, I picked through the past seven years of the anthology  The Best American Poetry .  This gave me an enlightening look at which publications are on their watch list. I went through the 2012 – 2018 indexes to see where the poems included in each anthology were originally published and where the editors presumably stumbled across them. I hope this will help you select good markets for your poetry submissions.

I’m sure it’s no surprise that out of the 377 (147 not including repeats) publications mentioned, the one with the most poems included in the anthologies is  The New Yorker .  (Of course, not far behind that is  Poetry Magazine , because what else.)

Please don’t take this as a comprehensive list of every poetry magazine you should be reading. Some lit mags are so young, they can’t be on the  Best American Poetry  radar yet, and some of them just don’t get recognized for a while. That’s okay.

Sometimes all it takes to start keeping up with literary journals without getting a million email updates a day is to take a couple hours to browse some and decide which style you like, whether or not you want it to be a mixed genre magazine, if you care about graphic design, etc. Hopefully, this list can act as your jumping-off point for poetry submissions.

Best Literary Magazines for Poetry

( as ranked by the best american poetry).

  • The New Yorker , 28
  • Poetry  Magazine , 23
  • The American Poetry Review ,   17 Ploughshares , 17
  • The Southern Review , 16
  • The New England Review , 13
  • The Cincinnati Review ,   11 Harvard Review , 11
  • Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series , 10 The Kenyon Review , 10 Prairie Schooner , 10
  • New Ohio Review , 9 The Paris Review , 9
  •   Southwest Review , 8 The Virginia Quarterly Review , 8 The Threepenny Review , 8
  • The Nation , 7 The Georgia Review , 7
  • The Literary Review , 6 AGNI , 6 Salmagundi , 6 The American Scholar , 6
  • The Believer , 5 Court Green , 5 The Iowa Review , 5 Poetry Daily , 5 Boston Review , 5 The Common , 5 Green Mountains Review , 5 Harper’s , 5 Gulf Coast , 5 jubilat , 5
  • The Awl, 4 (CLOSED) Conduit , 4 FIELD , 4 Denver Quarterly , 4 London Review of Books , 4 River Styx , 4 Subtropics , 4 Tin House , 4 The Yale Review , 4 Raritan 4
  • The Atlantic Monthly , 3 Barrow Street , 3 Beloit Poetry Journal , 3 Columbia Poetry Review , 3 Granta , 3 Hanging Loose , 3 New American Writing , 3 Plume , 3 A Public Space , 3 Rattle , 3 Alaska Quarterly Review , 3 The Antioch Review , 3 Cave Wall , 3 Fifth Wednesday Journal , 3 The Gettysburg Review , 3 New Letters , 3 The Sun 3 New York Times Magazine 3
  • 32 Poems , 2 Able Muse , 2 Black Warrior Review , 2 Blackbird , 2 The Carolina Quarterly , 2 Colorado Review , 2 DMQ Review , 2 Fence , 2 Waxwing 2 Five Points , 2 LIT , 2 MAKE Literature Magazine , 2 MiPOesias , 2 The Missouri Review , 2 The New Criterion , 2 Painted Bride Quarterly , 2 Pleiades , 2 Poet Lore , 2 Post Road , 2 Image Magazine 2 The Southampton Review , 2 Terminus Magazine , 2 The Hopkins Review , 2 upstreet , 2 Verse Daily , 2 Birmingham Poetry Review , 2 The Sewanee Review , 2 The Sycamore Review , 2 Cherry Tree 2 Massachusetts Review 2
  • ABZ , 1 The Baffler , 1 Beltway Poetry Quarterly , 1 Birdfest , 1 Boulevard , 1 Brilliant Corners , 1 Burrow Press Review , 1 Carbon Copy Magazin e , 1 Crazyhorse , 1 Cream City Review , 1 Early Music America , 1 Ecotone , 1 Fruita Pulp , 1 Gris-Gris , 1 Gulfshore Life , 1 Harpur Palate , 1 The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review , 1 Hayden’s Ferry Review , 1 House Organ , 1 The Hudson Review , 1 Iron Horse Literary Review , 1 The Journal , 1 Kinfolks Quarterly , 1 Lambda Literary Review , 1 Lemon Hound , 1 Little Patuxent Review , 1 The Los Angeles Review , 1 Maggy , 1 The Manhattan Review , 1 McSweeny’s , 1 Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations , 1 Memorious , 1 Michigan Quarterly Review , 1 Mid-American Review , 1 Muzzle , 1 Naugatuck River Review , 1 New South , 1 Ne w York Quarterly , 1 Ninth Letter , 1 The Normal School , 1 PANK , 1 PEN America , 1 PMS: poemmemoirstory , 1 Poetry London , 1 Poetry Northwest , 1 Poets.org , 1 Powder Keg , 1 Redivider , 1 The Rumpus , 1 Seneca Review , 1 Sentence , 1 Slate , 1 Southern Indiana Review , 1 Spillway , 1 Terrain.org , 1 Tongue , 1 Tupelo Quarterly , 1 Unsplendid , 1 Vinyl Poetry , 1 Vitrine: a printed museum , 1 The Volta , 1 West Branch , 1 Willow Springs , 1 Zoland Poetry , 1 storySouth 1 Buzzfeed 1 Mississippi Review 1 Callaloo 1 The Collagist 1 Tahoma Literary Review 1 Paperbag 1 Los Angeles Review of Books 1 Crab Orchard Review 1 Copper Nickel 1 Ragazine 1 Greensboro Review 1 Parnassus 1 Brilliant Corners 1

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Hi there! Thanks for this. Is it customary for Lit periodicals to charge submission fees for a submission (not a contest)?

Unfortunately, it has become customary. But there are lit journals that still refuse to charge reading fees.

Good day I would like to publish and sell my poetry, wheredo you suggest the best option is for me please I live on South Africa, and do not have a credit card, But only use a Debit card, I do not have any funds at the moment to pay entry fees,y writing comes from the heart, it is a hobby, but I would like to make money from it, if possible, so that I can buy a computer, seeing that everything I write is on paper

thank you for your time many greetings Thalia

Yes, but often it’s only $2 or $3 to cover the cost of submitting electronically through a site like Submittable.

I printed the entire list and I can’t wait to start submitting. Thank you.

Thank you. Very helpful. Though I haven’t started yet trying to submit. But my poems are very good and very unique. My original goal was fiction and before that screenwriting. I am an actor. But I love to write and think the world will be entertained and moved by the work. Thank you. Please keep online.

“my poems are very good and very unique”….. ego much?

Very unique? Does unique need a qualifier?

There is nothing wrong with being confident in your work. Keep at it!

I know, right!? So SUBMIT

Wow! What an extensive list! Thank you. My question is this: have you heard of the Cambridge Halls jounal of poetry? I am trying to find out if they are legitimate and if so are they well circulated? Thank you

Is there a way to share your lists on Facebook? My writing group would benefit from your service.

You should be able to just copy the URL and put it into Facebook.

https://thejohnfox.com/2016/05/poetry-submissions/

Coindidentally, that’s how I found this article–on a Facebook post eleven months later, 8/18/18.

Hi John, Do these journals consider publishing poetries from Indian authors? Also you haven’t mentioned any Indian literary journal in the list?

I focus on American literary magazines. But yes, these journals would consider poetry from any international writers.

Does anyone here subscribe to these magazines? I like magazines and i love poetry, but i don’t.

Thank you for compiling that list!!! Good luck to you in all your endeavors! Fellow writer.

I’ve heard of a poetry review called the “Gideon Poetry Review” which has a rather interesting concept: it publishes one poem per day on their facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/Gideon-Poetry-Review-153059232153329/ ), as opposed to a conventional e-magazine. Its a review established by the Gideon Tay Poetry Foundation ( https://gideontaypoetryfoundation.weebly.com/ ).

I think it would be good to include that in this list.

I’m the Chief Editor of a newer poetry magazine called Vita Brevis. Though we’ve published numerous Pushcart prize winners and nominees, we favor new and unpublished poets and accept submissions year-round (with no reading fees). Check us out: https://vitabrevisliterature.com/

Hi I would like to submit poetry based on the topics required. I have published poetry but mostly kept it to myself and now would like to use poetry as am income earner as it is a passion and ability that I would like to explore. Pls consider sending me the information to upstart a possible career in poetry. I voulfnt imagine that was ever possible so put the pen down but now am excited snout the upward trend. I am very capable of writing add comical or whatever caption, slogan or other formats may be needed but that is am area I have no experience in but would respond with excellent content given the content and emotions of the content or the pick up line if that’s even a thing. Thanks Regards G.

Thank you very much for providing this useful resource!

I would like to suggest https://www.poemist.com for this list

Thanks for providing such an excellent resource. I’ve submitted work to many of the publications on your list. Here are some notes your readers might find useful. Most publications are generous in allowing simultaneous submissions on condition the writer informs them in the event of the work be placed elsewhere.

As far as I know only 2 publications on your least either dissuade or refuse simultaneous subs. They are

The Sun Able Muse

As you mentioned earlier, many magazines now charge a small reading fee. Some, like the Gettsyburg Review charge for subs. made online but not for mailed subs. For writers this makes little difference since the cost of mailing is about the same as the fee for submitting work online.

To the best of my knowledge, here are the publications on your list that only accept hard copy snail mail submissions:

Paris Review Harper’s Yale Review Raritan Hanging Loose New American Writing Antioch Review Cave Wall Alaska Quarterly Review New Letters The New Criterion Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry London

While the reading fee most magazines charge is small it soon adds up. Like many writers, I try to balance the cost by dividing submissions between publications that don’t charge and those that do. I use a ratio of about 3:1

On your list, purely based on my own research, the following publications DO NOT charge a submissions fee:

Field Magazine Manhattan Review New Yorker The Believer Rattle Beloit Poetry Journal Poetry Magazine The Cincinnati Review AGNI London Review of Books Plume The Sun Blackbird DMQ Review LIT Poet Lore The Kenyon Review Cherry Tree The Baffler Cream City Review Harpur Palate Little Patuxent Review Mid-American Review Muzzle Ninth Letter West Branch Copper Nickel Able Muse Tin House

While the following publications do charge a submission fee:

Ploughshares The Southern Review New England Review South West Review The Georgia Review Iowa Review The Common Green Mountains Review Gulf Coast Conduit River Styx Barrow Street Columbia Poetry Review Gettysburg Review Black Warrior Review 32 Poems Carolina Quarterly Colorado Review Fence Los Angeles Review Missouri Review The Southampton Review Birmingham Poetry Review Sewanee Review Sycamore Review New Ohio Review Subtropics Crazyhorse Gris Gris Hampden-Sydney Review Iron Horse Literary Review Los Angeles Review Michigan Quarterly Review Newsouth The Normal School Poetry Northwest Southern Indiana Review Willow Springs Tahoma Literary Review The Greensboro Review

The changing face of publishing means it isn’t uncommon for journals to publish online only such as the following magazines from your list:

Paperbag Collagist Powder Keg Redivider Terrain.org Tongue. Unsplendid The Volta Ragazine

Writers should, of course, know the magazine or publication they submit work to since not knowing can be a waste of everyone’s time. Here are some miscellaneous notes I made while subbing to publications from your list.

Callaloo is a journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Nelle publishes work exclusively by women. PANK for experimental prose and poetry. MAKE is a themed magazine so check before submitting. Tin House has themes and general subs policies. Image is faith based. Beltway Poetry Quarterly only publishes authors with strong ties to the Washington, DC region, and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic states of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware. Brilliant Corners – for jazz-related literature. Burrow Press – fiction only and mainly from Floridians. Ecotone – accept work with a strong sense of place or pieces that re-imagine place. Hayden’s Ferry Review – themed, for example, current issue is Magic related. LAMBDA Review is LGBTQ supporting. McSweeney’s publish fiction and nonfiction not poetry. Naugatuk River Review – wants narrative poetry.

I hope this adds some useful information to the debate. I can’t vouch that is 100% accurate but the information is based on my notes made while submitting work to various publications.

Martin Jago

Wow, that is incredibly detailed! Thanks for the time putting this together, and good luck with your submissions!

thanks for this helpful info

This list and follow-up comments are super helpful. I appreciate the info you’ve provided here, John. And I have a question for you or for others who might be more experienced in this area than I: Some journals and magazines adamantly say NO simultaneous submissions (i.e. Tin House). But… how would they know whether I did send something to multiple presses?

Never pay attention to bans on simultaneous submissions. There is no way they’ll find out. It’s ridiculous that they’re asking for it in the first place — it can take a year or two to find a home for your poem and that’s if you submit to 10 – 20 journals at a time.

Ha ha… I like the way you think! Thank you!

I can’t believe you are advising poets to ignore bans on simultaneous submissions. They can find out when they offer to publish a poem that another journal you simultaneously submitted to has already published it and you have to fess up to it. Most journals only accept unpublished poems. Are suggesting we lie about that too?

I would never recommend to publish the same poem in two journals. Once a poem or story has been accepted, simply withdraw it from consideration everywhere else.

I love this. John, I am literally a buddy poet. I have been shell shocked and was scared of publishing after academia felt like the harshest critics of my work. I appreciate this post and the feedback from others. I started posting my work on Medium this year. But, I have not gained any monetary compensation from the online platform. The reason for this is that Medium does not support my country as a member subscription. I am a South African. And, I found very few publishers in South Africa interested in publishing poems. I tend to wrote more about taboo and social awkward terms as a millenial. So, I am migrating from spoken word and writing for family and friends to publications. If there are authors who have made the same journey…feel free to let me know the highs and lows. I am here to learn and find a home for my poems.

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What about the Poetry Foundation? http://www.poetryfoundation.org

They take submissions. Does anyone have any experience with them?

Searching for a poetry book publisher to my title, WALKING ON THE MOON. 50 years in evolution. July 21, 1969, 3 dumb dudes hit the Moon and met 3 shmoes. There was dialogue, then shmoes dematerialized. Government paniced and went wild. It was worse than a UFO on the White House lawn. Contents: 14 shorter poems, classical English verse forms & tuff stuff. Preface, versification of Aquarian Gospel in 24 cantoes, a short accessible version of Edward Young’s Night Thoughts, 1742, original format with 9 sections. Appendix with Jesus text from Pistis Sophia, the science of celestialology that I evolved, 2 poems of Rupert Brooke, one for a gag, one serious. I rate this with best in the history of poetry. No vanity here. Samuel Johnson on Alexander Pope: “He knew that the mind is always enamoured of its own productions.” Am putting it all on email for circulation. It is a life mission. Where can I go with it?–David Edward, [email protected] , 973 427 6529

John, Thank you for creating this site for those of us passionate about writing poetry but thwarted by accomplishing how to get our work published. Martin Jago, Thank you for taking the time to help fellow authors. I appreciate both of you, Kay Kay McLane

are you familiar with the Laurel Canyon scene? i just composed a new poem on that particular movement. Anyhow, i think poetry is an oft-neglected medium of expression. it is our responsibility for us to be the caretakers and storytellers. good luck with your own ideas + concepts.

Hi Kay! I was scrolling through these comments and was glad to see a familiar face! All best!

Does poetry foundation accept short poems

Do you have a suggestion for an editor of poetry in Spanish?

I don’t, sorry.

Can people in the UK submit to American magazines?

Yes, you can!

The reverse is true as well. I’ve just had my first real publication.

https://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/

Thanks for putting this list together. I’ve been working my way through, though with nothing to report yet. I’m jus sure if anyone else has commented on any of these; if so, I apologize for the redundancy. The American Scholar doesn’t appear to accept poetry (I couldn’t find any way to submit). The same goes for Harper’s and for The London Review of Books. The Awl has closed up shop, as has Field (as of its 100th issue, Spring 2019). The correct link for The Georgia Review is https://www.thegeorgiareview.com . It’s broken on the 100+ Best Places list. Thanks again for publishing the list.

Love this resource, John. I send a lot of my poets to it. For NEW and emerging poets, I recommend my publication, Vita Brevis.

Though we’ve published numerous Pushcart prize winners and nominees, we favor new and unpublished poets and accept submissions year-round (with no reading fees). Check us out: https://vitabrevisliterature.com/

Hi, my father was an internationally recognized scientist, who wrote poetry on the side. He died 9 years ago. He typed out 40 poems, but had over 80 additional handwritten poems, some with multiple versions. His handwritten versions were often juicier. These poems really shed light on the man behind the science. I am his eldest child, and only one of two who can read his handwriting (well, not every word). Could you please advise me on how to proceed? Thanks so much. (He also had some other writings, stories, but it’s the poetry that really stands out. He did publish a couple poems in his lifetime.)

Hi Michele,

Once you have them all typed up, go ahead and enlist the services of the poetry editor Valerie Brooks before self-publishing them through Amazon.

Such a great resource! Thank you all.

Very informative list provided for writers, poets. I’m poet of Sindhi, Urdu bilingual poet and poetry critic. I will try writing in English as well

All information here have been really helpful. I’m an aspiring poet and this has really inspired to keep on writing and looking towards my poem being published. Thanks

FIELD has closed as of issue #100 (Spring 2019)

i am in the process of constructing a chapbook of poetic ideas. i have been intrigued with literary journals + magazines. once or twice i was published. my ego isn’t exactly elevated though. if anything, fear has deterred me from spreading out my love for Poetica. thanks for this list. i am wary of spending money on reading or service fees. i work PT. good luck on all endeavours. we need to be bold and give whatever wisdom or Truth that exists.

What do the numbers mean? Am I an idiot? The only one who couldn’t figure it out? Please advise! Thanks for putting this together!

Dont feel bad.. I’m not sure what they mean either..

As the original author wrote, the ranking is based on the number of poems from each publication that have been published in a volume of Best American Poetry: “I went through the 2012 – 2018 indexes to see where the poems included in each anthology were originally published and where the editors presumably stumbled across them.“

What would happen if a poem were to get published by two journals at once?

You can only publish a poem in one journal. They would both contact you, and you would decide which one to publish it in.

Thanks a million for the list. I have a question regarding the submission of the poems. Most of the websites you have shared here have closed their submissions for the time being. When is the best time of the year for submissions? I mean the time of year when most literary journals accept submissions? Greatly appreciate all the efforts you make to help us. Best regards, Ali

Hi Ali, most journals are open in September.

Thank you for this excellent information. Are you or any of your readers familiar with the site Prometheus Dreaming?

Thanks, interesting information for the poets who wish to share your work. Greetings.

Thank you for this helpful information – and for the comments of others as well!

Thanks a lot.I have copied the entire list and will start submitting very soon.

This has been so helpful. Just curious: Has it been updated recently to reflect the latest Best American Poetry editions?

Thank you for this list! I’d like to mention another amateur resource – The Skrews Syndication. There are no submission fees and the entity is considered a collective. Up to 5 poems (short stories) can be submitted at once. As for the theme, works with darker themes are considered… https://skre.ws

I have a couple of poems based on religion which I have written. I also live in the UK. My questions are will I have to pay to submit? will my poems from UK be accepted? and Do you accept religious poems?

How disappointing; everything is swallowed up as “American”. It seems, as with many topics, events and people.. there is a bigger world out there, that other one most of us live in. Surely you people should be interested in a more open and diverse world of poetry? Think outside the square, read, consider and evaluate and you will find great literature that hasn’t been inflicted with narrow, culture-less inhibitions.

James, I’m a former Yank now living in the EU. I agree about the undue US influence in so many areas. I’m finding more EU resources, groups, journals, etc. every day. I have to almost write in two languages for submissions as the English varies so much on either side of the ocean.

Is there somewhere a good list of journals that review poetry books? I mean properly-published ones, *not* self-published ones. Thanks!

Hello. Hope my message finds you well. I have just had my first collection of poems The Leaves that Die by Ricky G published by United PC. It is available to buy from my publishers website and from Barnes and Noble. If you search online you will find it. I am based in the UK but my book is available to buy in the USA and Australia. I am trying to promote my book and get it stocked by bookshops, libraries and schools everywhere and to get it reviewed in magazines. Please help

I have seem this list for past five or so years – and feeling masochistic – I thought I’d attempt to submit once again. You would imagine with such a large list there would many opportunities. I did not find one. The utter arrogance of of many publishers – who provide no opportunities to submit was unsurprising – because such is the appalling treatment most prospective submitters can expect from many American publishers.

Thank you for sharing poetry submissions.

Finally! 2022… Starting to submit my poems. Is this list current or can someone advise me on a current national list? I hear Entropy is now closed, sadly. Thanks. Arlene

Many do not accept British writers as it costs them too much money. The problem with this is people may not always get a response. I have had to ask directly if they accept submissions from Britain. Those that ignore you, don’t. This is unfair as the majority of poetry magazines are based in the states.

Thanks for the list. We shall be grateful to you if you would kindly add the name of ‘Poetry without Fear’, a bilingual magazine of poetry, in your valuable list. The link is https://poetrywithoutfear.com/

Very good idea. Very useful.

Any thoughts on how to decide which poems to send to what journals. Assuming you don’t have time to read and analyze every issue of every journal. Much as you would like to.

I did not see “Comstock Review” or “National Poetry Review” in your listings. Both appear excellent; Comstock appears credible and I was impressed with NPR’s publication. Are they simply inferior to the hundred or what?

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Asimov’s science fiction, the georgia review, the gettysburg review, harper’s magazine, the iowa review, the kenyon review, narrative magazine, new england review, the new yorker, the paris review, ploughshares, poetry magazine, the sewanee review, the sun magazine.

Are you a creative or literary writer looking to share your words with a larger audience of your peers? Then look no further than these literary magazines accepting submissions!

The new year is just around the corner and there are plenty of literary magazines looking for high-quality writing for their next issue. Here is a list of some of the best literary magazines accepting submissions for next year. 

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Literary magazines are periodicals, which are dedicated to publishing poetry, short stories, essays and more from writers at every stage of their careers. Here are 18 now accepting submissions. Unless otherwise indicated, all payments are in American Dollars.

AGNI , Boston University’s literary magazine, accepts a wide variety of works for their online and print publications. The publication accepts poems, short stories, think pieces, essays, reviews and memoirs from writers all around the world. 

  • Submission dates: September 1 to December 15; February 14 to May 31
  • Payment: $20 per page for prose; $40 per page for poetry (to a maximum of $300)

The world’s leading science fiction magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction , seeks character-oriented stories examining the human experience. They accept stories between 1,000 and 20,000 words from a wide range of topics in the science fiction genre. 

  • Submission dates: Rolling
  • Payment: $0.08 to $0.10 per word for stories up to 7,500 words; $0.08 per word for stories over 7,500 words; $1 per line of poetry, up to 40 lines

Since 1947, the University of Georgia has published The Georgia Review . The goal of this publication is to promote essays, poems, book reviews and fiction that challenges readers and creates dialogue.

  • Submission dates: August 16 to May 14
  • Payment: $50 per page of prose (up to $800); $4 per line of poetry (up to $800); $150 for book reviews

Printed at the University of Gettysburg, The Gettysburg Review is one of the top literary magazines in the United States. This publication seeks high-quality submissions of poetry, fiction, essays and essay reviews for their tri-annual issues. 

  • Submission dates: September 1 to May 31; graphics accepted year-round
  • Payment: $3 per line of poetry (maximum $300); $30 per page of prose 

Granta is a literary magazine devoted to promoting talented new voices in the literary writing world. Each year, this publication accepts unsolicited poetry, fiction and nonfiction work during their four reading periods. Granta strives to open doors and remove barriers by offering 200 free submissions per year to low-income and/or marginalized writers. 

  • Submission dates: March 1 to 31; June 1 to 30; September 1 to 30; December 1 to 31
  • Payment: The website states they pay “professional rates”

Harper’s Magazine publishes fiction and non-fiction pieces in each of their monthly issues. To submit a non-fiction piece, writers must send a query to their New York City office. For fiction, Harper’s Magazine accepts unsolicited submissions of physical copies. 

  • Payment: Unspecified

Published three times a year through the University of Iowa, The Iowa Review has been continuously published for more than 50 years. The Iowa Review accepts online and hard copy submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction and non-fiction work.

  • Submission dates: August 1 to October 1 for fiction and poetry; August 1 to November 1 for non-fiction
  • Payment: $1.50 per line of poetry (minimum $100); $0.08 per word of prose (minimum $100)

The 2024 themes for The Kenyon Review  are extinction, writing from rural spaces and literary curiosities. This literary magazine accepting submissions is seeking essays, short fiction, flash fiction, poetry, plays and excerpts of larger works through their online portal.

  • Submission dates: September 1 to 30
  • Payment: $80 to $450 for prose ($0.08 per word); $40 to $200 for poetry ($0.16 per word)

Narrative is a nonprofit organization devoted to supporting and promoting literary writers and improving literacy worldwide. Narrative Magazine accepts a wide variety of submissions through their online portal and also awards annual prizes for the best works in multiple categories. 

  • Payment: $200 minimum for poems; $250 to $500 for manuscripts between 500 and 2,000 words; $500 to $1,000 for manuscripts between 2,000 and 15,000 words; $100 for reader’s narratives

New England Review is seeking submissions for all genres, particularly fiction, non-fiction, dramatic writing and poetry from writers of all backgrounds. Writers can submit their unpublished work to New England Review online portal or through the mail along with a cover letter.

  • Submission dates: September 1 to November 1; March 1 to May 1
  • Payment: $50 and one-year magazine subscription (for publication in NER Digital); $20 per page plus two copies of the issue and a one-year subscription (for publication in the journal)

The New Yorker , often thought of as the top literary magazine in the world, accepts submissions of cartoons, letters to the editor, shouts and murmurs, fiction and poetry. 

As the name suggests, One Story focuses on publishing one story at a time. This literary publication launched in 2002, after the publishers noticed many small literary magazines shutting down and short stories disappearing from mainstream publications. One Story is seeking submissions of short stories of any style and topic between 3,000 and 8,000 words.

  • Submission dates: Opening in early 2024
  • Payment: $500 and 25 contributors copies

The Paris Review  accepts hard-copy unpublished works of prose and poetry at different points of the year for their quarterly issues. 

  • Submission dates: March and September for prose; January, April, July and October for poetry
  • Payment: $100 per poem; $1,000 to $3,000 for fiction; reimburses expenses for nonfiction projects

Ploughshares at Emerson College is a leading literary magazines and publishes short-form and long-form works including fiction, nonfiction and poetry. 

  • Submission dates: June 1 to January 15 
  • Payment: $45 per printed page; $90 minimum per title; $450 maximum per author

POETRY Magazine publishes all types of unpublished poetry, including text, audio, video and visual formats as well as some prose works. 

  • Submission dates: September 16 to June 14
  • Payment: $10 per line (minimum $300) for text poems; $300 for visual, audio and video poems; $150 per page for prose

Dating back to 1892, The Sewanee Review is the oldest continuously published quarterly literary magazine in America. The publication accepts submissions of essays, poems and book reviews through their online portal most of the year. 

  • Submission dates: September 1 to May 31
  • Payment: Minimum $100 for poetry and $300 for prose plus more depending on line and word count

The Sun Magazine publishes thought-provoking poems, essays, short stories and black-and-white photographs by new and established contributors from around the world. 

  • Payment: $200+ based on length

Formerly Crazyhorse, swamp pink publishes a semi-monthly online literary magazine featuring fiction, non-fiction and poetry. 

  • Submission dates: September 1 to December 31; February 1 to May 31; prize submissions are accepted in January
  • Payment: $40 for poems; $0.05 per word for prose

Whether you’re new to the literary world or well-versed, submitting your best creative or thought-provoking pieces to a variety of literary magazines is a great way to get your work and name out there.

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Thank you for sharing your work with Poetry . We look forward to the opportunity to engage carefully with your work. Due to the number of submissions we receive each year, we will likely get back to you within eight months. We appreciate your patience.

Gratefully,

Adrian, Angela, Holly, and Lindsay

How to Submit

Please submit up to 4 poems (up to 10 pages total) for consideration, following these guidelines:

1. First save your poems as a single document.

2. Then complete the form with your information and upload your poems

3. Click SUBMIT, and you’ll receive an email confirming that we received your submission. You can check the status of your submission by logging into your Submittable account.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • Please send only one submission at a time per category, and wait until you hear back from us before uploading a new submission. We are eager to provide ample time and space for everyone’s voices to be considered, so if you do send multiple submissions, they will be archived unread and will receive no response.
  • We have a small staff that reads over 100,000 poems per year. Because we strive to give every submission careful review, our response time can be up to eight months. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
  • If you have published your work in Poetry during the last year, please wait until next year to submit any new work.
  • We consider only previously unpublished work. Writing that has appeared online for any reason, including social media posts, is considered to have been previously published and should not be submitted.
  • We welcome poems in all languages. For poems that are not primarily in English, please include a translation of the non-English portion(s) of the poem. This is an accessibility consideration for our editorial staff, not an attempt to privilege the English language.
  • For those submitting video, please also include a written copy of your text, as both video and text would be published if accepted for publication.
  • If your submission involves collaboration with another poet or artist, please include their name and 20-word bio as well.
  • Poetry is open to simultaneous submissions, but let us know immediately if work is accepted elsewhere by adding a message to your submission specifying the work that is no longer available.
  • All poets will be compensated for published poems. We pay $10/line with a minimum honorarium of $300 per poem.
  • To make sure you receive our response, set your spam filter to allow emails from [email protected].
  • We close for submissions annually from June 15 through September 15. 
  • If you have further questions, please visit our detailed FAQ on our website .

Please click the HELP link at the bottom of this page if you have trouble using this site.

If you are unable to use Submittable for any reason, please visit our FAQ page to learn other ways to submit your work.

Thank you for your interest in Poetry magazine!

Poetry is continuing a multi-year project that seeks to introduce readers to a broad scope of work by authors we’ve not yet published. We invite you to submit portfolio pitches focused on individual poets, artistic groups, movements, and organizations. Recent folios on Margaret Danner, Frank Marshall Davis , William J. Harris , June Jordan , Joyce Mansour , Carolyn M. Rogers , and Assotto Saint are examples of the composition, scope, and quality of work we are interested in.

Published folios will be 20-30 pages in length, and may include photos, letters, interviews, essays, speeches, and other ephemera in addition to poems. Our preference is for folios to primarily include previously unpublished poems, poems published only in limited edition runs, or out-of-print work, but they may also include more widely available works, especially if those poems are key to the subject’s history and work. All folios should include a short prose introduction and can include additional critical examinations of the work, and/or more personal remembrances. We are particularly interested in poets who were active from 1912 on.

Please note: The curator of the folio is responsible for identifying likely rights holders (e.g. estate, publisher, family) and should be able to provide contact information for reproduction rights. If the folio you’re proposing is on a living poet, we prefer that you’ve already been in touch with them about this proposal. If you have an idea for a folio but do not want to curate it, please use this general folio suggestion form .

Poetry closes for submissions annually from June 15 through September 15. 

WHAT TO SUBMIT

1. A short pitch (500 words max) that includes:

  • Your relationship to the work
  • Why you think the work should be revisited now
  • The time period the folio would cover
  • The types of work by this poet you would include (ex: published and unpublished poems, essays, letters, interviews, etc.)
  • Any supplemental work by other authors you may want to include (e.g. images, essays or poems about the poet)
  • Where the work has primarily been published
  • Whether the work is currently in print or out of print
  • Whether this is part of a larger project (e.g. a forthcoming book, or a related portfolio in another journal)
  • Any collaborators you have in this project

2. A sample folio that includes:

  • A sampling of the poetry section of the folio (7-10 pages of poems) in one document (please include citations where possible)*
  • Optional: Attach any supplementary files if available (essays, photographs, letters, other ephemera, etc.). Please include short captions for any of these items.

Payment: Flat rate of $3,500 for 20-30 pages of work. For any introduction or prose, you will also be paid our standard prose rate ($150/page). Rights holders will be paid for permissions to reprint the work.

Note: Poetry closes for submissions annually from June 15 through September 15. 

For translations, please submit no more than 4 poems, for a total of 10 pages maximum. Please include both the original poem and your translation. For essays or interviews on translation, please submit no more than 10 pages of a single essay or interview. If this is part of a larger work, let us know in the cover letter field. If you have any trouble using this online system, please email [email protected] .

1. Save the work you are submitting as a single document. Since we publish translations bilingually, please also include the poems in the original language in your submission document. 

2. Complete the form with your information and upload your work.

  • All poets will be compensated for published poems. We pay $10/line with a minimum honorarium of $300 per poem in print and $150/magazine page for prose. For translations, we split payment 50/50 between the translator and the author of the original poem or the rightsholder.

1. Upload your video submission, up to four videos. These can be recordings of spoken word pieces, ASL poems, or mixed-media pieces (i.e. poetry read alongside dance)*

2. In the second file field, please also include a written copy of your text, as both would be published if accepted for publication. If there are components to your poem which are performed by an artist other than the poem’s author, please include their name and bio as well.

  • All poets will be compensated for published poems. We pay a $600 flat rate for video poems.

Thank you for sharing your work with Poetry . We look forward to the opportunity to engage carefully with your work. Due to the number of submissions we receive each year, we will likely get back to you within eight months. We appreciate your patience. Gratefully, Adrian, Angela, Holly, and Lindsay  

How to Submit Poetry magazine welcomes personal and idiosyncratic prose pertaining to poets and poetry. We appreciate experimental forms, as well as playfulness and a sense of humor. These pieces should demonstrate poetry’s role in the wider culture and its manifestations in the writer’s lived experience. This is not a form for straightforward literary criticism or academic prose. Please see our general submissions page for other prose-related calls (book reviews, roundtables, etc). In this form, we are seeking:  

  • “A Politics of Mere Being” by Carl Phillips
  • “Exhaust All Poisons” by Brian Kim Stefans 

    

  • "Heart to Heart” by Noah Stetzer
  • “Mostly His Apocalpytic Star Glitters Wondrously” by Chase Berggrun
  • "Differing Freak Wonder” by Nick Sturm
  • Previous example: "In a Foreign Land” by Mairead Small Staid
  • “Among Every Three Fathers, One Will” by Jennifer Tseng
  • "Impossible Word: Toward a Poetics of Aphasia” by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
  • “Writing Beyond the Human: Divining the Poetics of Divinity” by Joy Ladin
  • "Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation" by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma, and Khaty Xiong
  • "Disability and Poetry: An Exchange" by Jennifer Bartlett, John Lee Clark, Jim Ferris, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise

Our typical essay  length is about 1,500 - 2,500 words. As a maximum, please submit no more than ten pages; if the work is longer than that, please note that in the cover letter and we will ask to see more if we are interested. IMPORTANT NOTES:  

  • All poets will be compensated for published work. We pay $150 per published page in print for prose.

Please click the HELP link at the bottom of this page if you have trouble using this site. If you are unable to use Submittable for any reason, please visit our FAQ page to learn other ways to submit your work. Thank you for your interest in Poetry magazine!

Thank you for sharing your work with Poetry . We look forward to the opportunity to engage carefully with your work. Due to the number of submissions we receive each year, we will likely get back to you within eight months. We appreciate your patience. Gratefully, Adrian, Angela, Holly, and Lindsay

How to Submit Poetry magazine seeks:

  • For example: "The Borderless Empire of the Interior" by André Naffis-Sahely
  • For example: "Refuse to Settle” by Alan Gilbert
  • For example: "The Lonely Dream" by Vidyan Ravinthiran

Please don’t submit reviews of a single book. Those submissions will be declined. The magazine welcomes exploratory writing that demonstrates the relevance of poetry to everyday life. We encourage writers to take an out-of-the-box approach to book reviewing, and are particularly interested in work that fosters conversation—between the poets whose work is under consideration, the reviewer, and readers at large. Our typical review  length is about 1,200 - 1,800 words. Please submit no more than seven pages total. IMPORTANT NOTES:

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20 Literary Magazines That Publish Rhyming Poetry in 2023 | Writer’s Relief

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20 Literary Journals Where You Can Submit Rhyming Poetry in 2023

Able Muse focuses on metrical and formal poetry. This journal requests…“well-crafted poems of any length or subject that employ skillful and imaginative use of meter and rhyme, executed in a contemporary idiom that reads as naturally as your free verse poems.” The Raintown Review prefers to receive formal/metrical poetry, but that interpretation ranges from traditional to experimental. Rat’s Ass Review , where the founding editor, David M. Harris, states: “Send me your best poetry. I don’t particularly care whether it’s formal or informal, metrical or free verse, rhyming or not.” Rattle publishes an eclectic mix of both free verse and traditional poetry. Sliptongue publishes traditional forms of poetry only, with an erotic subject matter. WestWard Quarterly is looking for rhyming poetry with consistency and natural word order in the rhyme scheme. Whistling Shade states that the work they accept includes “poetry of any form, including lyric verse that employs rhyme and meter, and there is no word limit.” Ancient Paths is a predominantly Christian publication that accepts both rhyming and free verse poetry. The Asses of Parnassus accepts “short, witty, formal poems.” Better Than Starbucks has an entire section dedicated solely to rhyming poetry! The Chained Muse is an online publication that promotes 21st-century classical poetry. Light Poetry Magazine  has this fun note on its submissions page:

“We’re open to work from the left or the right, to formal or free verse, refined or with bite, to thought that’s like ours or that’s different by half: we just want good stuff that’ll make people laugh.”

The Orchards Poetry Journal encourages rhymed verse in traditional forms, but also accept free verse. Sparks of Calliope accepts both free verse and traditional poetry. Mezzo Cammin accepts structured form poems by women poets, as well as poems that experiment with form. Tahoma Literary Review looks for a balance between different poetic forms and styles, accepting a mix of free verse and formal poetry. The Eclectic Muse believes in spearheading a revival of traditional poetry and features several rhyming poems to demonstrate the kind of poetry they accept. The Lyric Magazine was founded in 1921, making it the oldest magazine in North America devoted to the publication of traditional poetry. Rhyme Zone focuses on rhyming poetry, and they also accept previously published work! Unsplendid is a triquarterly online literary magazine and accepts several different forms of poetry, including sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, and more. Now that you’ve found twenty needles in the proverbial literary journal haystack, be sure to submit your rhyming poetry! If you also write free verse poetry or short stories—or have written a novel or memoir—Writer’s Relief can help you find the best markets for those genres. Our research experts can help you target the best markets and boost your odds of getting published. Submit your free verse poetry, short story, or book to our Review Board today!

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Amazing content…could you add which one of these actually pay the contributor in case the submission is accepted?

Blog Editor

You may find this article of interest: https://writersrelief.com/2018/07/20/22-literary-journals-that-pay-to-publish-poems-and-why-others-dont-writers-relief/

Robert

I just followed all the links and currently, Rattle and Tahoma Literary Review seem to be the only paying markets on this list, but Tahoma charges a submission fee.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Kathryn Jacobs

The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry would fit here. Kathryn Jacobs (editor)

Thank you, Kathryn!

Joshua C. Frank

The Society of Classical Poets would fit here; I have formal verse published there all the time. Also Snakeskin Poetry and Atop the Cliffs.

Can you add a list of journals that accept reprints?

Thanks for your input!

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91 Literary Magazines Accepting Reprints (Updated for 2023)

I took the 2016 list entitled “185 Literary Magazines Accepting Reprints” from  publishedtodeath.blogspot.com and manually checked each entry. Those which no longer functioned or explicitly stated they only want unpublished work have been removed. New entries are added when discovered. We reserve the right to omit or remove publications with discriminatory submissions policies. This list update is an ongoing process: last updated February 11, 2023.

*  The creator of this list has personally experienced success with markets bearing the  * .

**  The creator of this list is the editor of this publication.

$ This publication has mandatory reading fees.

50-Word Stories   * “Each month, submissions will be open between days 1 and 15 of that month. Any stories received on days 16 to 31 of a month will be deleted, but can be resubmitted the following month.”

Allegory “Biannual Online Magazine of SF, Fantasy & Horror”

Ancient Paths Online   * “We welcome works by contributors of all religions, but you should be comfortable with having your work appear in a predominantly Christian publication. Works published in Ancient Paths explore spiritual themes such as redemption, sin, forgiveness, doubt, faith, gratitude for the ordinary blessings of life, spiritual struggle, and spiritual growth.”

Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal $ Reading fee required; $6 per piece or $15 per three pieces submitted. Payment is ongoing royalties per selected piece + complimentary PDF copy + interview on our blog or PoArtMo Show.

Autumn Sky Poetry Daily Send ONE poem in the body of an email with SUBMISSION in subject heading (no cover letter). Read Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY for one week from the date of your submission and you will find out if your poem was chosen for publication when it either does or doesn’t appear online.

Avatar Review “Previously published work accepted on occasion–although we prefer unpublished material. Author must supply appropriate credit.”

Azure “We want literary fiction that grows in complexity upon each visitation; we enjoy ornate, cerebral, and voluptuous prose executed with thematic intent.”

Better than Starbucks * “We accept previously published work in every genre we publish–all types of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.”

Bewildering Stories “offers a home and an audience to speculative writing”

Blue Collar Review “Though it is not required, it helps to see a sample issue in advance to get a better idea of what we are looking for. We do not accept simultaneous submissions.” Duotrope lists this market as accepting reprints.

Blue Unicorn Blue Unicorn wants well-crafted poetry of all kinds, in form or free verse, as well as translations. We shun the trite or inane, the soft-centered, the lazy poem. We are known to like pieces other mags reject (and vice versa). Shorter pieces have a slight edge with us because of layout considerations. To make the submitter’s life a little easier, we now do look at simultaneous submissions and previously published work; please let us know the status, though, and don’t overdo.

Bookends Review, The “We offer  two  open reading periods: May 1 st  – August 31 st and December 1 st  – January 31 st . Submissions sent outside of those time frames will not be considered.”

Canary $ “We are closed to submissions during those four months: March, June, September and December in order to focus on producing the current issue…. Canary accepts multiple submissions and previously published work, for which we will, of course, credit the previous publication.”

Cast of Wonders “We are an intersectional feminist YA podcast.” “We run both reprints and original stories, and have no strong preference between the two.” Please check our schedule for detailed submission window timing. We do not accept submissions year-round.

Chained Muse, The   * “Send us your poetry for review or submission. The world is longing for beautiful poetry that stirs the soul and rouses us to seek a better world. Every great new poem breathes new life into this effort.”

Children, Churches & Daddies “The Unreligious, Non-Family-Oriented Literary and Art Magazine”

Cleaver “Philadelphia’s International Literary Magazine” Previously published work is generally not accepted, but they will occasionally consider work shared on personal blogs/websites or work previously published in a limited print-only edition. A $5 submission fee is lifted periodically through the year.

Craft “We will also consider previously published creative work, as long as the writer retains the rights or second-publication rights can be obtained. We do not pay for reprints.”

Creativity Webzine, The   *  We accept submissions all year round and charge no reading fee. We only accept submissions by email. Send all your submissions, double-spaced with your name, address, contacts and the word count of your piece.

Craft “We do accept reprints for our Short Fiction and Flash Fiction categories, but do not pay for these stories. We do not accept reprints for submission in our contests.”

Danse Macabre “A magazine of the imaginative, the magical, the ethereal, the supernatural, the dark, the absurd, and the unknown.”

Defuncted “To clarify, we are looking for work that was previously published but is no longer available to read online or in print because the journal it was published in has gone defunct.”

Doubleback Review, The “We only  publish previously-published work from journals that no longer exist; we do  not publish previously unpublished work nor previously published work that is still available online or in active print circulation.”

Down in the Dirt Magazine  “We accept work of almost any genre, but we will not  consider rhyme, because it seems to us that all rhyme is for rhyme’s sake (we don’t care why you rhyme, we just don’t want it in Down in the Dirt), and we’re definitely not keen on religion poems (we  were originally a section of cc&d magazine, whose byline says it’s an UN-religious magazine”)

Drabblecast, The “Reprints and Repods?– SWELL. Yes.  We tell ’em fresh. Drabblecast is currently closed for submissions! (visited 2/11/23, 10/16/24) ”

Ekphrastic Review, The * “We want nothing less than to grow and expand the art form of literary writing inspired or prompted by visual art. “

Empty House Press “While we prefer previously unpublished work, we are willing to read work that has appeared on an author’s personal site or blog or at an online venue that has closed provided that the work is otherwise no longer available or appears in a significantly different form and appropriate acknowledgements are included.”

Eunoia Review “We also accept reprints, but you must retain or have regained the rights to your work.”

Every Writer “We also take works that have been previously published as long as you have the right to publish the work (we like previously published work, to be honest”).

Fabula Argentea “Writers of quality fiction up to 10,000 words are invited to submit to our triannual magazine.”

Fear of Monkeys, The “an E-Zine featuring politically conscious writing”

Fiction on the Web “You’re…welcome to send stories that have been printed elsewhere as long as you retain the copyright.”

Font, The “ The Font welcomes submissions…in some way related to language teaching or learning or of interest to those connected to this profession.”

Frigg: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry “published online twice a year, in the spring/summer and fall/winter”

Front Porch Review “If your submission was previously published, please cite the reference.”

Frontier Tales “This is a Western magazine. We’re interested in Western stories, Western biographies, etc.”

Funds for Writers “If a reprint, list where and when the piece was published.”

Gallery of Curiosities, The “We  do  want to know if it is a reprint, and  where it has been . Say so in your cover letter.” Temp Closed according to Duotrope (visited 10/16/23)

Geist  (“ Geist  is a Canadian magazine and requires a Canadian connection in all non-contest submissions.”)

Ginosko Literary Journal  (“Accepting short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, social justice, literary insights;” “Publishing as semiannual litzine.”)

Glint “We are willing to republish work that has appeared elsewhere, though we usually prefer that the original publication appeared in venues that do not receive wide circulation. For example, if your piece appeared in a student publication or in a print journal that may not be available to a global audience, we may be more likely to agree to reprinting and providing credit to the original publication.”

Hedgerow “Work previously published on social media permitted. However, please make a note of this in your email.”

Hypertexts, The   *  (We do not accept unsolicited submissions, but poets are welcome to query Mike Burch through Facebook (he is the only Mike Burch wearing glasses with round lenses, so he’s easy to spot). Or if you know poets published by THT, you can ask them to introduce you to Mike Burch, via email or snail mail.)

Jersey Devil Press “We don’t accept stories that are currently available online elsewhere. If it’s already up on one site, it seems a bit greedy to us to have it on ours too.”

Jewish Literary Journal Pieces published anywhere within the last year will not be considered. “All submissions must be Jewish in nature.” No longer accepts simultaneous submissions. (Visited 10/16/23)

Joyland Magazine “New content appears weekly and Joyland pays writers.”

Kaleidoscope “Kaleidoscope magazine creatively focuses on the experiences of disability through literature and the fine arts.”

Lake, The “Previously published poems will be considered providing you retain copyright and that they were published at least one year prior to submitting. Please also provide the place and date of publication.”

Lascaux Review “We consider previously published material and we assume all submissions are simultaneous.”

Lighten Up   “the quarterly light verse webzine” “Previous publication elsewhere will be no bar to acceptance by Lighten Up Online, provided that copyright has been retained by you.”

Literally Stories “We accept quality short stories of between 500 and 3000 words.”

Literary Momma “…Writing by mother writers about the complexities and many faces of motherhood.” “We will consider reprints if you have the rights and the work is not currently available online.”

Lotus-Eater “Lotus-Eater is based in Rome, Italy, and publishes works in English and translations from the Italian”

Luna Station Quarterly “Luna Station Quarterly publishes speculative fiction written by women-identified authors.”

Manawaker Studios “Previously published work is okay, as long as you let us know where it was published previously, so we can credit them in the podcast.”

Mediterranean Poetry “The general idea with  http://www.odyssey.pm is to publish poetry / prose inspired in some way or the other by the Mediterranean world.”

Neon “Reprints and simultaneous submissions are more than welcome.” On indefinite hiatus. (Visited 10/16/23)

NonBinary Review “We don’t charge a reading fee, we accept reprints, and we pay our authors. Our issues are themed, and we’re always accepting submissions for at least one issue.”

Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, The “Previously published work is okay if awesome.
 Same for simultaneous submissions. The Ides of March is the submission deadline. All selections will also appear on The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology site.”

Other Stories, The “We want stories under 4000 words or that take less than twenty minutes to read aloud. We take published stories as well as unpublished ones. Just make sure you retain audio rights and tell us where the story’s been published!” There are presently no open calls for submissions. (visited 2/11/23, 10/16/23)

Poeming Pidgeon, The “For previously published work, please include notation at the bottom of the page of that poem.”

Podcastle “Reprints are welcome and strongly encouraged. We are happy to consider stories previously released on Patreon as reprints.”

Poetry Life & Times   * “We require and accept: 1. A formal submission giving us permission to publish; 2. Submissions via email only; 3. A short bio; 4. We reward contributors with a link to their site; 5. We prefer an image, a pic of the poet or some image that represents the poem. The image too must be original.”

Pseudopod “We do not discriminate between previously published and unpublished works.”

Quail Bell Magazine “We accept simultaneous submissions and previously published work.”

R.K.V.R.Y. “We are now a paying market. Contributors will receive $10 on publication. We are closed to submissions during the summer months.”

Radon Journal “We publish every January, May, and September. Submissions are accepted year-round. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Reprints accepted provided artist has the rights.”

Reading Out Loud “If you had fun writing your work, our professional actors will have fun performing it, and our audience will have fun listening to it.”

Sante Fe Writers Project Quarterly “Publishing submissions for SFWP, ASP, and 2040 Books are closed.” (Submissions are temporarily closed according to Duotrope. Visited 10/16/23)

Short Humour Site  (“We have no problem with [previously published material] as long as the author retains copyright and there are no restrictions on publication still current from any previous publication of a piece.”)

Society of Classical Poets Journal   “Some type of meter, such as iambic pentameter, is preferred but not absolutely required.”

Space Squid “We publish reprints if they rock… and they haven’t been around the block. i.e., less than 3 printings, please.”

Sparks of Calliope   ** Sparks of Calliope  is now accepting poetry submissions for publication. Poetry can be traditional or free verse, unpublished or previously published.)

Spillwords Press   * Spillwords Press is a place where you can submit many literary genres: haiku, found poetry, micro-poetry, poetry, free verse, essays, prose, flash fiction, short story, nonfiction, article, editorial, commentary, novel/book excerpt and more. We accept unpublished, as well as previously featured literary works, as long as you are the rightful author. (“According to over 30 submission reports from Duotrope users, this market has over a 95% acceptance ratio.” Ed. note – The editor was not aware of this when he first submitted.)

Still Point Arts Quarterly “Typically we ask for exclusive First Rights, meaning the right to be the first to publish your work in digital formats. You may republish your work afterwards at any time. We do occasionally accept reprints.”

Summerset Review “Reprints will not be considered unless the work has been, or will be, published in a new or upcoming collection.”

Survivor’s Review “Contributors to the  Survivor’s Review need not have been previously published. However, if you are submitting a previously published piece, please let us know when and in what publication(s) it has appeared.”

Tales from a Small Planet “Original essays, fiction or humor consistent with our theme: “What It’s Really Like to Live There.””

Tales of the Zombie War “Submissions may be previously published and/or simultaneously submitted, but  must be legally available for publication on this site.”

Terrain.org “ Terrain.org publishes previously published materials so long as the work is not currently available online or in an app (please notify us when submitting), though original, unpublished work is preferred.”

Thema “Previously published pieces are welcome, provided that the submission fits the theme and that the author owns the copyright.”

Unlikely Stories “We emphasize poetry, but have no patience for simple political opinions expressed with line breaks and rhyme.”

Valparaiso Poetry Review “Very rarely and only in special circumstances, previously published material will be accepted if it is unavailable anywhere else online. If such a submission has been previously published in a print journal or book, the original publication must be identified.”

Verse-Virtual   * “I ONLY ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS DURING THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF THE MONTH. THE EARLIER THE BETTER.​ Persons who want to submit their poetry to the journal should be interested in being part of the community. This is not the place for poets who just want to see their work published. Simultaneous submissions are fine; Reprints are fine; Copyright of all written material at all times belongs to the author.”

Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream  “Waterways is published 11 times per year by Ten Penny Players, Inc.” They are listed as accepting reprints in Duotrope, and it is inferred on their guidelines page.

Wordgathering “Previously unpublished work is given preference. If a work has been previously published, please let us know where. Effective June 2020, Wordgathering began publishing work under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license, which allows readers to view/access, download, and share the work (with proper attribution), but nothing else, without permission of the creator; all other rights remain with the creator.”

Workers Write “We will consider previously published material.”

Writing Disorder, The “We occasionally reprint previously published work.”

Yellow Mama “One story [or up to three poems] at a time and no simultaneous submissions! If your story is a reprint, it must have been published at least a year prior to your submission with us. All reprints must be accompanied by the bibliography of the story, in other words where and when it has been published before. In addition, ORIGINAL, UNPUBLISHED WORK WILL ALWAYS BE GIVEN PREFERENCE OVER REPRINTS, and reprint material may be “bumped” in favor of original, unpublished pieces.”

Your Daily Poem   *  (“If you’ve written a great poem, we don’t care whether you’ve ever been published or not. By the same token, we believe great poems should be seen by as wide an audience as possible, so we are happy to consider previously published work.”)

Zooscape  “We pay 8 cents/word for original fiction. $20 for reprints. For reprints, use the subject line, “REPRINT SUBMISSION: Title, Word Count,” and tell us in your cover letter where/when the story was originally published.” (Closed until December 15, 2023. Visited 10/16/23)

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21 February 2024

Call for Submissions! Food Stories Magazine 2024

What is it?  

The Food Stories magazine is an activist publication tackling issues regarding food cultures, food politics, food sustainability and food security in the cost-of-living crisis. Employing the talents and skills of many departments within the university, we’ll create a multi-media magazine which brings awareness to social dilemmas within our food system. 

What we’re looking for:

Any and all forms of food-centric writing, whether that be fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, screenplays, or flash fiction. This could include recipes, essays, and book reviews of novels/poetry collections. We’ve collected various food stories from students; If you’d like to use these as writing prompts you can access them by emailing Mie at [email protected]

We’re looking for weird and wonderful pieces of writing in which food plays a central role. There’re no restrictions in terms of genre or form, as long as the piece is original, and hasn’t previously been submitted to any other publications. 

Don’t know what to write? Here are a few prompts to get you going:

  • Write a spec-fic piece on futuristic food. 
  • Write about someone/something hunting for their food – is the food something we’d expect to see on the dinner table? 
  • Write about food on another planet/by another species. 
  • Get weird with it – write about someone eating/craving something they shouldn’t be. 
  • Write a fictional dinner party – is it a disaster, or a success? 
  • Write about the supernatural, cannibals, vampires – what does dinnertime look like for them? 
  • Write about a restaurant – is there something bizarre about the food that’s being served? 

Submission Guidelines:

You may submit multiple pieces of writing in varying forms, however, please note that not all submissions may be successful. All rights will be retained by the creator. Any work that is considered offensive or defamatory will not be published. 

Submissions should not exceed 1500 words. We will accept two pieces of fiction per writer. 

Poetry submissions should not exceed 60 lines. You may submit multiple poems provided they do not exceed  60 lines in total .  One poem  per author will be accepted if successful.  

Flash Fiction

Submissions should not exceed 500 words. We will accept two pieces of flash fiction per writer. 

Creative Non-Fiction

Submissions should not exceed 1500 words . We will accept two pieces of creative non-fiction per writer.

Submissions window:

All submissions should be sent by Monday 15 th April 2024, 00:01 GMT. 

Submissions sent outside this window may not be considered for publication. 

How to submit:

Please send your submissions to [email protected] with the subject line ‘ Food Stories Submission 2024’ .   

Attach your work as a Word document or PDF, with a title and your name. If you are submitting multiple pieces of work, please attach all files in the same email. 

If you wish to be involved in the production of the magazine, come along to our workshops on Wednesdays at 1:30 pm in FT/114.  

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