THE WORKSHOP.
Small instruments for the working poet — free, in the browser, nothing stored or sent anywhere.
The Line Checkpaste a poem, see exactly where phones will break your lines
More instruments are on the bench. Missing one you need? Tell the editor.
FROM ELSEWHERE.
Tools built by other hands, worth knowing — listed and watched like everything else in the index.
Chill SubsFree, personality-forward database and tracker of lit mags, presses, and contests.
DuosumaA submission-management platform built by Duotrope, used by literary magazines, small presses, and agents to run reading periods; free for writers to submit through with a basic Duotrope account.
DuotropePaid database and submission tracker covering thousands of markets, with response-time statistics, since 2005.
LineateWordPress plugin for publishing poems that actually render: preserves lineation, indentation, and spacing across themes and devices.
NewPagesLong-running guide to literary magazines, presses, and calls for submissions.
Poets & WritersThe field's institutional hub: databases of magazines, presses, agents, contests, and MFA programs.
SubmittableThe dominant submission-management platform; most journals' portals run on it.
The Submission GrinderFree, donation-supported submission tracker and market database for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction writers, run by the Diabolical Plots team.