Helen Zell Writers' Program (Michigan)
mfa programA fully funded two-year MFA in fiction or poetry at the University of Michigan's English Department, offering a funded post-graduate fellowship year and named for donor Helen Zell.
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Hodder Fellowship
fellowshipA funded 10-month residency at Princeton for writers and artists of exceptional promise—selected for potential rather than track record—to pursue an independent project without teaching duties.
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journalQuarterly journal of art, literature, and religious faith, known for serious, non-doctrinaire engagement with belief; pays contributors.
Indiana Review
journalBiannual literary magazine from Indiana University's English Department, known for eclectic, "carefully strange" work and its annual Half-K Prize.
Iowa Writers' Workshop
mfa programThe oldest and most famous MFA program in the country; two-year funded residency in Iowa City.
Kundiman
fellowshipNonprofit literary organization supporting Asian American writers through an annual retreat, mentorship lab, regional workshops, and an annual poetry book prize.
Lineate
toolWordPress plugin for publishing poems that actually render: preserves lineation, indentation, and spacing across themes and devices.
Lit Hub Daily
newsletterFree daily email digest from Literary Hub compiling that day's literary criticism, news, and features (plus CrimeReads and Book Marks content); poetry coverage appears intermittently via roundups and interviews rather than as a dedicated submission channel.
MacDowell
residencyThe storied artist residency in Peterborough, NH. No residency fee; travel grants and stipends available.
Michigan Quarterly Review
journalFounded in 1962, the University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary literary quarterly publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation, with an active online counterpart (MQR Online).
Mid-American Review
journalLong-running Bowling Green State University journal (est. 1981) known for its poetry, fiction, and a notable translation chapbook series; currently on hiatus after its May 2026 issue.
Milkweed Editions
pressNonprofit Minneapolis press founded in 1980, known for ecological and place-based literature, publishing poetry (Ada Limón, Jake Skeets, Fady Joudah) alongside literary fiction and nonfiction.
Millay Arts
residencyA multidisciplinary artist residency at Edna St. Vincent Millay's former estate, Steepletop, in Austerlitz, New York, offering fully subsidized Core Residencies (juried) and partially subsidized Steepletop Residencies (rolling) for poets and other writers and artists.
National Poetry Series
contestAn annual open-call poetry manuscript competition, founded in 1978, that selects five winning manuscripts for publication by participating trade and university presses, each judged by a different established poet.
NEA Creative Writing Fellowships
grant$25,000 federal fellowships; poetry and prose alternate years. The most significant no-strings government grant for U.S. poets.
New England Review
journalMiddlebury College quarterly known for launching major poets and writers early in their careers; pays contributors and recently added poet Matthew Olzmann as poetry editor.
Nightboat Books
pressBrooklyn-based nonprofit press publishing poetry, hybrid, and intergenre work at the experimental edge, with a strong line in archival queer and trans writing.
Nimrod International Journal
journalUniversity of Tulsa's biannual literary journal, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956; best known for administering the annual Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.