Duosuma

ABOUT

Duosuma is Duotrope's in-house submission-management platform, launched in 2020 as a lower-cost alternative to services like Submittable for literary magazines, small presses, and literary agents. It grew out of Duotrope's long-running market-listing and tracking service (founded in 2005) and is built and maintained by the same team, aimed specifically at the poetry- and lit-mag-publishing ecosystem rather than a general submissions market. The platform is not itself a publisher or market; it's back-end infrastructure that individual editors and agencies license to run their reading periods, track manuscripts, and communicate with contributors.

For writers, Duosuma is free to use as a submitter: you need only a free personal Duotrope account (a paid Duotrope subscription is optional and adds minor perks, not required access). Submission terms, fees, response times, and pay rates are set entirely by each individual publication or agent using the platform, not by Duosuma itself, so writers should check the specific market's own guidelines rather than expecting uniform policies. Prospective submitters can browse live opportunities and deadlines through Duosuma's own opportunities and calendar pages, which aggregate current calls from participating publications; publishers and agents, meanwhile, must request an account and pay Duosuma's listed platform fees (pricing detailed on its publisher/agent overview page, not itself specified in dollar terms on the main site).