46 Paying Markets for Poetry - No submission fees

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Updated 8/9/23

Rise and shine, poets!

Here are 45 literary journals that pay for poems. Short, long, lyrical, light - you name it, they want it. And if these markets aren't enough to absorb your prolific output, you can find more publishing opportunities for poetry in these posts:

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Journals with submission periods

Epoch Magazine is edited by faculty at Cornell University. Genres: Poetry in all forms, including the long poem; send up to five poems, fiction, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. Payment: $50 per poem, and $150 per short story, more for longer stories. Reading Period: August to March. Snail mail submissions are free. Charges $3 for online submissions.

The Massachusetts Review. Genre: Poetry up to 100 lines. Submit up to six poems. Also fiction and essays. No fee for mailed submissions. Payment: $100 for work published in a single issue. Reading Period: October 1 - April 30. Translations, including poetry, are accepted year-round.

The Georgia Review. Genre: Submit up to five poems, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews. No fee for mailed submissions. Payment: $4 per line of poetry, and $50 per page for prose. Reading Period: August 16 - May 14. Snail mail submissions are free. Charges $3 for online submissions.

Bennington Review. Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, film writing, and cross-genre work. Payment: $100 for prose of six pages and under, $200 for prose of over six pages, and $20 per poem, in addition to two copies of the issue the piece is published in. See submission periods.

Vallum Magazine is a Canadian poetry magazine. Genre: Poems on the theme of  Fear. “It has been said by writers like William Golding that fear is the most destructive of human emotions. It may be a fear of the known or of the unknown, a fear that seems overwhelming and unbeatable. Franklin D. Roosevelt said “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” How is fear represented in poetry, specifically in your poetry? What are we afraid of?” Send 4-7 poems (by mail only). They also accept essays, interviews, reviews, and audio and video poems. Payment: Not specified. Reading Period: Deadlines are posted on the site.

Grain Literary Magazine is a Canadian publication. Genres: Individual poems, sequences, or suites up to a maximum of 6 pages, fiction, literary nonfiction. Payment: CAD $50 per page up to CAD $250. Reading Period: September 15 to June 15. They have a monthly Submittable cap. If they reached the cap, online submissions will be closed until the following month. 

Baltimore Review. Genre: Poetry; send up to three poems, fiction, creative nonfiction, videos (including poetry), and cross-genre work. Payment: $40. Reading Period: Submission periods are September 1 through November 30 and February 1 through May 31.

Highlights Magazine is a magazine for children ages 6-12. Genre: Poems up to 10 lines, especially non-rhyming and/or humorous poetry. No poems with nature or seasonal themes or poems about dogs. Also publish short stories (see guidelines for current themes), puzzles, articles, activities, and cartoons. Payment: $40 and up for poems, crafts, and puzzles, and $175 and up for fiction and nonfiction. Reading Period: See site for updates.

AGNI. Genre: Poetry and prose. Payment: $10 per printed (or printed-out) page for accepted prose, and $20 per page for accepted poetry, up to a maximum of $150. Reading Period: September 1 - May 31.

Contemporary Verse 2. Genre: Poetry and critical writing about poetry, including interviews, articles, essays, and reviews. Payment: $30 - $150. Reading Period: September 1 - May 31.

Mslexia. Genre: Stories, poems and script on themes. Length: Stories up to 2,200 words, poems up to 40 lines, and short scripts up to 1,000 words (including character names and stage instructions).  Payment: £25. Reading Period: See site for deadlines.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media, visual arts, "and even kitchen sinks, if they are compressed in some way." Payment: $50. Reading Period: See site for deadlines.

THEMA. Genre: Short stories, flash fiction, poems, art on themes.  Payment: short story, $25; short-short piece (up to 1000 words), $10; poem, $10; artwork, $25 for cover, $10 for interior page display. Reading Period: See site for deadlines. Reprints accepted.

FIYAH. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry about African Diaspora. Themed issues. Length: Short fiction 2,000 – 7,000 words and novelettes up to 15,000 words. Payment: $150 per story. $50 per poem. $300 per novelette. Reading Period: See site for deadlines.

Westerly. Genre: Short stories, poetry, memoir and creative non-fiction, essays and literary criticism. Payment: Poems: $120 for one poem or $150 for two or more poems; Stories: $180; Articles: $180; Visual art/Intro essay: $120; Reviews: $100; Online Publication: $100. "We expect our contributors to be subscribers of the Magazine. While we will accept submissions from non-subscribers, should your work be accepted for publication in this instance, you will be asked to accept a subscription to the Magazine as part payment for your work." Reading Period: See site for deadlines.

Poetry Magazine. Poetry magazine has been in continuous publication for more than 100 years, making it the oldest monthly magazine devoted to verse in the English language. Payment: $10 per line (with a minimum payment of $300), and $150 per page of prose, for first serial rights. All rights will revert to the author upon publication. Authors will also receive two contributor copies of the issue in which their work appears. See open periods.

West Branch. Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. Payment: $50 per submission of poetry, and $.05/word for prose with a maximum payment of $100. See open periods.

DreamForge. Genre: Science fiction and fantasy short fiction and poetry. Payment: $0.06/word. Payment for reprints is $0.03/word. Poems are paid at the rate of $25 to $100. See open periods. Accepts reprints.

Revolute. Genre: Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Payment: $25. See open periods.

Arc Poetry Magazine. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $50 per page. See open periods.

Shenandoah. Genre: Poetry, fiction, comics, and nonfiction. Payment: $100 per poem, $100 per 1000 words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500. Has brief open periods for poetry.

Opossum. Genre: Poetry (3 poems, 10 pages  maximum). "Poems can be either lyrical or narrative, and the connection  to music can be subtle or explicit. We especially like the weird and the sincere." Payment: $25/poem + five copies of your issue w/ 7" record. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Expect a response no longer than three months from submission. No reprints please.

Poetry Ireland Review. Genre: Poetry. Payment: €50 for poetry, €100 for articles. See submission periods.

Poetry Wales. Genre: Poetry, features and reviews. Payment: Poems £20/page. Reviews £67.50/1500-word review. Articles £200/3000 word, or in that proportion, depending on number of published words. Print and online. See open periods.

Year-Round Submissions

Iterant.  This is a brand new poetry journal. Submit! Payment: $50.

Fourteen Poems "We want to represent all that's thrilling about the new wave of LGBT+ poets. If you’re a poet, even if you’ve never been published before, we want to read your work. Every issue we publish 14 of the best queer poems we’ve found, and we want to include you! We publish 4 times a year, but take submissions all year round.  To be considered, email up to 5 poems, preferably in a pdf format, with a small paragraph about yourself to hello@14poems.com. Payment: £25 for each poem published.

Night Coffee Lit is looking for your poetry, art, and ephemera. Submit 3-5 previously unpublished poems in one doc, docx, or pdf document. Payment: $50.

Poetry London is a leading international magazine, where new names share pages with acclaimed contemporary poets. They also publish a wide range of poetry in translation. Poetry London publishes reviews of around seventy or eighty titles a year. They concentrate on single author collections of poetry in English or translated into English, including some pamphlets and chapbooks. In addition, there are occasional reviews of significant anthologies or relevant critical writing. Payment: £30.

Rattle. Genre: Poetry. Rattle also publishes a weekly online poem relating to current event called Poets Respond. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST. The poems must respond to news that occurred in the previous week, and have been written in the time since. Payment: $100.

Modern Poetry in Translation. Genre: Translations of poetry. Send up to six poems. Payment: Not specified. Reading Period: General submissions are year-round.

The Sunlight Press. Genre: Poetry, up to five poems in one submission. Also fiction, personal essays, reviews, photography, and Artists on Craft Series (Interviews/Reflections by artists on their process of the art of choice; accompanying photos welcome): under 1,000 words. Payment: Not specified.

Star*Line is the official newsletter of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association. Genre: Speculative poetry (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror), interviews, articles, and reviews. Submit up to five poems, or short articles on topics related to science fiction, fantasy, and horror speculative poetry. Payment: $0.03/word for poetry, rounded to the nearest dollar. Minimum $3.

Glintmoon exclusively publishes poems of ten (10) lines or fewer. "We will consider any and all poetry that follows this one rule. However, it must be said that we are not partial to traditional forms, such as the haiku or the tanka, nor do we particularly enjoy rhymed or metred work." Payment: $5.

Frontier Poetry: New Voices. Submissions are open to new and emerging poets only (no more than one full-length published work forthcoming at the time of submission.) Payment: $50 per poem, up to $150.

Through the Gate. "We are looking for fantastical poetry of literary and emotional depth from a diversity of voices and perspectives. Our definition of fantastical is quite fluid, encompassing fantasy, magic realism, myth, folklore, surrealism and slipstream. We desire poetry that is atypically beautiful, unconventionally imaginative, and boundary-crossing. We are not interested in work that is strictly science fiction or mainstream, but poetry that blurs the lines between such genres and the fantastical is welcome." Payment: $20 (USD) per unpublished poem by PayPal.

Haiku Journal. "Haiku Journal celebrates the art of haiku poetry. As part of our mission, to make art accessible to everyone regardless of income, Haiku Journal is published, in its entirety, online for the world to see. Simplicity is the key here. Keep it simple and beautiful. Haiku should seem to say more than what is possible in three lines. They should resonate beyond themselves somehow." Payment: Token.

Wax Nine. "We publish each Wednesday, so long as you send us cool things. Take a look at what we've published so far to get a sense of what submissions we love. Because this is a poetry journal built on a record label's pre-existing website (translation: not especially text friendly) it is currently hard for us to make uniquely formatted pieces look great & true to form - although we do our best when we accept them. (Redesign someday that will allow for more interesting paragraph options, we promise.)" Payment: $50.

Palette Poetry. "Submissions for our Featured Poetry category are open year round to poets at any stage of their career. Featured Poems are published online only and will spotlight a number of poems from new authors each month. We highly encourage emerging authors to submit." Payment: $50 per poem, up to $150.

Poetry Online has no strict poetry style or theme. They accept both poetry and visual poetry, traditional and experimental. Payment: $60.

Riddle Fence is a Labrador and Newfoundland based quarterly magazine of arts and culture. They publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, visual art, reviews and features. Payment: $30/page.

Guernica is a magazine of global arts and politics. Payment: $50 for poetry, $100 for original essays, and $150 for original fiction and for reportage.

The Poetry Box is published by Off Topic Publishing (CANADA). Submit 1-3 poems of any style and theme by the 25th of each month. Poems received after the 25th will be considered in the next batch. The poem should be no more than 15 lines (including blank lines). One poem will be selected for publication each month and printed postcard-style to be mailed out to Poetry Box subscribers. Payment $40 CAD.

Poetry Ireland Review is published three times annually. "We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, and proposals for articles and reviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English. We actively encourage submissions from women and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, who are currently under-represented in the submissions we receive throughout the year." Payment: €40.

Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry. They publish both established and emerging poets. They also welcome all types of poems, including long poems and sequences. Send up to 5 poems. They also accept translations. Payment: $50/poem.

Blue Unicorn is known for welcoming formal verse, and this welcome continues. "We’re impressed by poems that read as though the poet had simply thought in the form, without forced rhymes, weak words inserted to satisfy the meter, and the like. Every formal writer knows how much effort goes into seeming effortlessness." Payment: Contributors get two copies, and our six annual Pushcart Prize nominees receive honoraria of fifty dollars each.

Only Poems. "We love prose poems, traditional forms (ghazals, villanelles, sestinas), love poems, sex poems, and experimental questionnaires, but we are not married to a style or genre. We are welcoming of anything you think is your most exciting work. Ultimately, we want poems that move us or make us go: “God, I wish I had written this!” Payment: $55. Only Poems also runs a monthly Poem of the Month contest. Prize: $22. They accept Reader Responses. Payment: $22.