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Literary Poems

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Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award Fees

cover image for Poetry Society of America

For 10 pages of poetry from a manuscript-in-progress.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,000 prize.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 143.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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Boulevard Magazine Fees

Now available in print and online, Boulevard is a biannual literary magazine publishing contemporary fiction, essays, interviews, and poetry. Based in St. Louis, Missouri. Read internationally. Established in 1985.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50-$250.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 185.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Bracken Magazine

Bracken is a literary magazine born of the love of the woods and its shadows. Bracken is green and lush, coarse and delicate, drinks from the earth, and spreads underground, more root than frond. Bracken is understory, invades, takes over, shades and protects. We seek poetry and art that will root, tender and tough, in us.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $30 per poem.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Generation Gap Wildcard

We aim to publish writers of all ages in a print magazine. We want writers and artists spanning the generations to explore the same subjects in the same space and especially encourage joint submissions from writers of different generations. Side by side submissions should be submitted together in one file and be submitted to the call for the youngest writer in the collaboration. Each issue is themed and writers should submit their poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and art/photography…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 151.4 days.

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HALSEY Literary Reader

A semi-regular collection of words and pictures, HALSEY focuses on the art and science of living and what it means to be human. We welcome all kinds of poems and photographs, short essays on craft, and reviews of small press poetry books.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 19.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Radar Poetry

Radar Poetry is an electronic journal of poetry and artwork. We publish poems from established and emerging writers and welcome international submissions. We are interested in the interplay between poetry and visual media. Each issue features pairings of poetry and artwork, selected by the editors.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 21.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Southern Poetry Review

SPR is the second oldest poetry journal in the region, with its origins in Florida and subsequent moves to North Carolina and now Georgia. Continuing the tradition of editorial openness and response to writers that began with Guy Owen in 1958, SPR publishes poems from all over the country as well as from abroad and maintains a worldwide readership…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 94.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Thimble Literary Magazine

At Thimble Literary Magazine, we believe armor can be found in the oddest of places, whether that’s facing a hard truth head-on or reframing it so you can better understand it. We believe the stories we tell ourselves to be the most powerful protection for our edges.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 16.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 27.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Unbroken

Unbroken is an online journal that seeks to showcase prose poems and poetic prose, both from established and emerging voices. We desire to give the block, the paragraph, the unlineated prose, a new place to play. We seek prose poems and poetic prose. (We do not publish lined poetry.) Both traditional and innovative works are welcome. We want dark and disquieting, we want fanciful and funny, we want surreal and surprising. We want stunning and unusual imagery, and language that compels…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Wild Greens Magazine

Wild Greens is a mixed-media magazine that publishes art, handcrafts, poetry, essays, short fiction, music, and more. We call ourselves a greens because we envision our magazine as a common space to be shared by all artists, and a meeting area for all kinds of creative endeavors. We are wild because our ideas grow freely and unconstrained. Wild Greens was founded in Philadelphia in October 2020.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 23.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

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