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Fee-Free Literary Poetry

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Glass Poetry Press

Glass Poetry Press is a micro-press in Toledo, Ohio that publishes poetry chapbooks. We also publish the online poetry journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Our chapbooks are hand-bound and side stapled with full-color card stock covers. Each chapbook is assigned an ISBN. Initial print run is 100 copies and each chapbook will be kept in print as long as there is sufficient demand, to be determined by the press…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poetry Chapbook.
Payment: + No advance. >=15% royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: 15% royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 120.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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Ley Lines Literary Review Wildcard

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Ley Lines Literary Review is an online website-based literary magazine committed to publishing meaningful contemporary writing and offering it to the wider reading public. What are ley lines? Ley lines are invisible lines in the Earth—similar to latitudinal and longitudinal lines—but crisscrossing at various places, creating intersections that have powerful energies…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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MudRoom Magazine

MudRoom is a journal of poetry and prose. Our mission is to provide every writer, emerging and established, the opportunity to both see their work published and engage with a larger literary community. We are committed to publishing underrepresented voices, especially BIPOC, Queer, Trans, women, and disabled writers. In other words, we ourselves are queer and see queerness as expansive, compelling, and experimental…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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Nimrod International Journal of Prose & Poetry

Since its founding in 1956 at The University of Tulsa, Nimrod has shared with its readers exciting new writing from around the world. Each issue features a stimulating selection of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, including work in translation. Selections from Nimrod have been included in The Best American Short Stories, Best Stories from the South, New Voices in American Fiction, Best New Poets, Best American Poetry, and many other noted anthologies…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $20 per page with a $300 maximum.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

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The Offing

The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25-$100.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 69.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

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OTHERSIDE

OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. We’re looking for previously unpublished speculative poems. Our tastes are varied—we like free verse and fixed forms, experimental and traditional poems, and everything in between. With poetry, feel free to interpret “speculative” broadly…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per poem.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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Phoenix Poets Series

Since its founding in 1983, the Phoenix Poets series has published contemporary poets with a keen awareness of the history and possibilities of poetry. Books in the series have won major accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poetry Collection.
Winner's Prize: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 103.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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Poet Lore

Founded in January 1889, Poet Lore is America’s oldest poetry journal. In its current form, Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. Each issue delivers poems that make concerns of our moment both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is broadly inclusive…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 213.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Prudence Dispatch

Prudence Dispatch is a semi-annual journal of poetry published from Prudence Island - Chippaquasett - in the center of Narragansett Bay. We prefer shorter poems (that will fit on a single page) and poems that connect nature to the human experience.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

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The Scop

The Scop - named after the Old English term for bard or poet - is the primary student-run literary magazine operating out of King's College. We are passionate about our mission to provide student staff and contributors with real-world literary magazine experience. We believe that artistic potential has no borders or limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 53.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 28.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

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