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journalIndependent, nonprofit poetry-only journal based in Utah, publishing two issues a year including a chapbook series.
Independent, nonprofit poetry-only journal based in Utah, publishing two issues a year including a chapbook series.
College of Charleston literary journal, formerly Crazyhorse (founded 1960, renamed swamp pink in 2022). Publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year and pays contributors.
Online journal with a strong youth mentorship program; a launching pad for early-career poets.
University of Cincinnati literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice yearly, plus miCRo, a weekly online series of works 500 words or fewer; pays contributors.
University of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.
Ohio State University's literary magazine, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1973; co-administers the Wheeler Poetry Prize with Ohio State University Press.
Storied Ohio journal founded by John Crowe Ransom. Reads in short windows; pays contributors.
UMass Amherst quarterly of literature, arts, and public affairs, known for pairing poetry and fiction with politically engaged essays and administering the annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize.
University of Missouri quarterly literary magazine founded in 1978; accepts submissions year-round and runs the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize and Perkoff Prize. Pays contributors.
Quarterly of fiction, poetry, and its landmark Writers at Work interviews. Pays for accepted poems.
America's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, founded 1892. Pays contributors.
LSU quarterly founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; issues sold individually.
Free, donation-supported submission tracker and market database for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writers, run by the Diabolical Plots team.
Wendy Lesser's Berkeley quarterly. Free to submit and pays well ($200 per poem).
Online poetry journal that published short, high-compression lyric work monthly from 2011 until its final issue in November 2024; submissions are now permanently closed but the archive remains online.
Independent nonprofit literary press in North Adams, MA, publishing poetry chiefly through an annual open reading period rather than contests, offering a $1,000 advance and full support to selected authors.
Online literary magazine from Tupelo Press publishing poetry, prose, cross-genre work, translation, and reviews in rolling numbered issues.
Brooklyn-based nonprofit collective publishing letterpress and hand-bound editions of poetry, translation, drama, and artist books, run cooperatively rather than by a single editor-in-chief.