Rattle
journalLos Angeles poetry journal known for accessibility and its Poets Respond series. No fee, pays, fast responses.
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Sarabande Books
pressLouisville nonprofit independent press publishing poetry, short fiction, and essay; discovers new work chiefly through the Morton Prize in Poetry and Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Shenandoah
journalWashington and Lee University's long-running literary journal, now published online twice yearly; pays $100 per poem.
Split Lip Magazine
journalMonthly online literary magazine publishing flash fiction, fiction, poetry, and memoir, known for a voice-driven, pop-culture-inflected aesthetic and an active contributor-focused blog (Lip Service).
Stadler Fellowship
fellowshipBucknell's post-MFA fellowship providing a year of stipend, housing, mentorship, and hands-on arts-administration/editorial experience with West Branch and the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts.
swamp pink
journalCollege of Charleston literary journal, formerly Crazyhorse (founded 1960, renamed swamp pink in 2022). Publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year and pays contributors.
The Cincinnati Review
journalUniversity 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.
The Georgia Review
journalUniversity of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.
The Kenyon Review
journalStoried Ohio journal founded by John Crowe Ransom. Reads in short windows; pays contributors.
The Missouri Review
journalUniversity 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.
The Paris Review
journalQuarterly of fiction, poetry, and its landmark Writers at Work interviews. Pays for accepted poems.
The Sewanee Review
journalAmerica's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, founded 1892. Pays contributors.
The Southern Review
journalLSU quarterly founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; issues sold individually.
The Threepenny Review
journalWendy Lesser's Berkeley quarterly. Free to submit and pays well ($200 per poem).
Tupelo Press
pressIndependent 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.
Ucross
residencyFully funded residencies for writers, visual artists, composers, and choreographers on a 20,000-acre working cattle ranch in northern Wyoming, with private studios, chef-prepared meals, and a modest stipend.
University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series)
pressPublisher of the Pitt Poetry Series, a decades-old, high-volume university-press poetry list whose primary open entry point for new poets is the annual Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
Vanderbilt MFA
mfa programFully funded three-year MFA in Nashville admitting six poets and six fiction writers per year, for a total cohort of eighteen students.
West Branch
journalBucknell University's literary magazine, founded in 1977, publishing poetry, fiction, translation, essays, and reviews; twice-yearly issues plus occasional themed folios. Pays contributors.