Submission Opportunities Calendar for Poetry

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March 2025

• 21 Mar 2025 04:59 UTC rainy weather days: a defiant literary magazine (Gold Star Program): Volume 4 | Volume 5 (closes in 3 hours, 53 minutes)
• 21 Mar 2025 22:59 UTC Forests Unexplored Chapbook Series (Island of Wak-Wak) (Gold Star Program): Open Call for General Chapbooks (closes in 21 hours, 53 minutes)
• 24 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Short stories, nonfiction (Charges fees.) (closes in 3 days, 22 hours)
• 31 Mar 2025 21:59 UTC Coffee Table Chapbook Series (Island of Wak-Wak) (Gold Star Program): Chapbooks
• 31 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Flash, poetry, graphic novels, art (Charges fees.)
• 31 Mar 2025 23:59 UTC Sunspot Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Inception: $100 for Best Opening Prose/Art (Charges fees.)

April 2025

• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC WAYE Small Press (Gold Star Program): By the Waye Issue 02 General Poetry Guidelines (Charges fees.)
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC WAYE Small Press (Gold Star Program): By the Waye Issue 02 Featured Poet Guidelines (Charges fees.)
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Haymaker Literary Journal: Issue #2
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC LBRNTH (Gold Star Program): Poetry - Issue #5 (Fuck!)
• 01 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Manuscript Submission (Canada) (Metatron Press): 2025 Open Reading Period
• 01 Apr 2025 04:59 UTC General Submissions (MEMEZINE): Featured
• 01 Apr 2025 06:59 UTC The Pointed Circle: Poetry for Issue 41: Dig In
• 02 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction (Orison Books): 2025 Orison Poetry Prize (Charges fees.)
• 02 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): Summer—Writing Submission
• 02 Apr 2025 06:59 UTC Macrame Literary Journal (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• 02 Apr 2025 06:59 UTC Midsummer Dream House (Gold Star Program): Poetry Anthology
• 07 Apr 2025 23:59 UTC Milk & Cake Press: Open Reading Period--Chapbooks (Charges fees.)
• 09 Apr 2025 21:59 UTC The Woolf (Gold Star Program): Issue 8 - Prose poetry
• 16 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Consequence: Poetry
• 16 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• 16 Apr 2025 03:59 UTC Cosmic Daffodil Journal (Gold Star Program): In the Company of Strangers
• 16 Apr 2025 06:59 UTC Graveside Press (Paper Angel Press) (Gold Star Program): Witchcraft Anthology
• 30 Apr 2025 22:59 UTC The Wild Umbrella (Gold Star Program): Poetry, Prose, & Cover Art

May 2025

• 01 May 2025 03:59 UTC Milk Bag Magazine (Gold Star Program): Milk Tabs - Sunburn - Issue 1.2
• 01 May 2025 03:59 UTC Milk Bag Magazine (Gold Star Program): Poetry - Sunburn - Issue 1.2 (Charges fees.)
• 01 May 2025 05:59 UTC FreeFall Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest: Poetry - Canada (Charges fees.)
• 01 May 2025 05:59 UTC FreeFall Magazine Prose & Poetry Contest: Poetry - International (Charges fees.)
• 02 May 2025 03:59 UTC Troublemaker Firestarter (Gold Star Program): Volume 9
• 16 May 2025 03:59 UTC wildscape. literary journal (Gold Star Program): Issue #3 (July 2025 Publication)
• 18 May 2025 23:59 UTC Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program): Volume 5, Issue 2, theme: SANCTUARY

June 2025

• 01 Jun 2025 03:59 UTC The Fool's World | Inaugural Launch (Gold Star Program): Off Season Poetry Submissions to The Fool's World (Charges fees.)
• 01 Jun 2025 04:59 UTC Arcturus: Poetry
• 01 Jun 2025 23:59 UTC Geri Digiorno Prize (Raleigh Review): Digiorno Multi-Genre Submissions Open via Duosuma (Charges fees.)
• 02 Jun 2025 03:59 UTC Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & GNC Writers on the Divine (Orison Books): Divinity in the Margins
• 02 Jun 2025 04:59 UTC Jade Ring Writing Contest (Nonmember Submissions) (Wisconsin Writers Association): Nonmember Poetry (Charges fees.)
• 02 Jun 2025 04:59 UTC Jade Ring Writing Contest (Nonmember Submissions) (Wisconsin Writers Association): Nonmember Poetry (Add Critique) (Charges fees.)
• 02 Jun 2025 06:59 UTC The Crossroads Review (Gold Star Program): The Crossroads Review - Summer Issue

July 2025

• 02 Jul 2025 06:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): On the Road: Writing Submission
• 22 Jul 2025 03:59 UTC Cypress Review: Issue III: poetry, fiction, art, photography

August 2025

• 01 Aug 2025 06:59 UTC NonBinary Review (Zoetic Press): Issue #41: A Psalm for the Wild-Built

September 2025

• 15 Sep 2025 23:59 UTC Tales (The Writer's Workout): Theme: The Unknown

October 2025

• 02 Oct 2025 06:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): Vintage—Writing Submission

November 2025

• 02 Nov 2025 23:59 UTC Instant Noodles (Current Words Publishing) (Gold Star Program): Volume 5, Issue 3, theme GRAVY

January 2026

• 02 Jan 2026 07:59 UTC Still Point Arts Quarterly (Shanti Arts LLC): Crafting a Life—Writing Submission

No Deadline

• AC | DC: A Journal for the Bent (Gold Star Program): Ongoing Submissions
• The Aftershock Review: Issue One and Issue Two Open Call (Charges fees.)
• Bermuda Triangle Prize (The Poet's Billow): Poetry (Charges fees.)
• a bilingual anthology focused on Pupusas (FlowerSong Press): an anthology on Pupusas
• Bristol Noir (Gold Star Program): Poetry (Charges fees.)
• The City Key: Open Submissions
• Collections Of Transience (Gold Star Program): Collection Of Transience Open Call
• Consequence: Translations
• FlowerSong Press: Manuscript Submissions Now Open
• Gavialidae (Gold Star Program): Poetry and Flash Fiction (Charges fees.)
• Grand Little Things: Poetry
• Grey Hands Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program): Online Magazine Submissions
• Hibiscus Magazine: Hibiscus
• Ink Nest Poetry (Gold Star Program): Poetry Contest - April (Charges fees.)
• Ink Nest Poetry (Gold Star Program): June '25 issue - Poetry, Fiction, Visual Art
• Ink Nest Poetry (Gold Star Program): Editorial Feedback (Charges fees.)
• JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine (Gold Star Program): General Submissions
• Merion West (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• Micro-Meta Poems (Metatron Press): 2024
• Old Chaps (JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine) (Gold Star Program): Old Chaps Guest Slot
• Open Arts Forum: Poetry, fiction, art, music, other creative work
• The Pangaea Prize (The Poet's Billow): Poetry Submissions (Charges fees.)
• Paraselene: Poetry (Free)
• Paraselene: Poetry (Expedited) (Charges fees.)
• Paraselene: Poetry (Editorial Feedback) (Charges fees.)
• Past Ten (Gold Star Program): A Writing Project on Time
• Pictura Journal (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• Pink Disco Magazine (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• Pink Disco Magazine (Gold Star Program): Poetry Contest Submissions (Charges fees.)
• Radix Magazine: Poetry - Radix Magazine (Charges fees.)
• The Rumen (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• The Rumen (Gold Star Program): Poetry: Expedited & Personalized Response (Charges fees.)
• Sacramento Literary Review: Poetry
• Sacramento Literary Review: Expedited (3-day) POETRY ONLY (Charges fees.)
• Saint Katherine Review (St Katherine Review) (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• Salvation South (Gold Star Program): Poetry
• Shanti Arts Publishing (Shanti Arts LLC): Book Publishing—Manuscript Submission
• Slant Books: Manuscript Submission (Charges fees.)
• Tender Masculinities (Purple Ink Press): Fast Decision Submission (Charges fees.)
• Toda clase de dulces: Sweets from My Childhood (FlowerSong Press): Poetry Anthology
• Willows Wept Review: Poetry