Our goal is to become a subscription-driven tri-annual journal. The issues will be glossy-cover and perfect-bound, containing 100-200 pages of poetry. We hope our website will become a virtual gathering place for all of Pittsburgh poetry,...
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Reading Period: Dec 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry
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We want to highlight the work of both new and established writers passionate about film, music, literature, fine arts, and culture. We are also interested in your poetry and short fiction!
Simply put, we want to start...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry -
Featuring poetry that runs the gamut from traditional to experimental, from realist to surrealist, Plainsongs strives to capture the multiplicity of voices--including those of feminist, nonwhite, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ writers--that make up the...
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Plant-Human Quarterly explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world—from heavily researched pieces, to keen observation, to less systematic, intuitive ways of knowing and interacting—that attempt to...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Creative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Poetry -
Plates is an internationally minded experimental journal with care for art, design, writing, and community.
Plates welcomes proposals for essays, interviews, reviews, maps, love letters, recipes, literary works, and page-...
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Platform Review is an online venue that publishes a diverse selection of art and literature four times a year.
ARTS By The People and Platform Review do not promote or accept any racist, hateful, violent, or...
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Plath Profiles is an international, interdisciplinary journal of studies on Sylvia Plath. All submissions are peer-reviewed. We accept essays, book reviews, notes, teacher-reactions, poetry, memoirs, student essays, responses, art, ...
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Please See Me is an online literary journal that features health-related stories. The mission of the publication is to elevate voices and stories of vulnerable and underserved populations and those who care for them. At the heart of this...
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Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté,...
Read moreReading Period: Jun 1 to Jun 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Humor, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry -
The Plentitudes is a quarterly international literary journal showcasing captivating short stories, personal essays, and poetry from diverse voices. We believe in the power of writing—in its plentitudes of forms, styles, and modes of exploration—...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Formal Poetry, Healing/Health, Historical, Humor, Journalism/Investigative Reporting, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Love, Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Religious/Spiritual, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction -
Ploughshares is a journal of new writing, and two out of three issues per year are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with each year's Winter issue staff-edited. 50...
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A provisional indication of our tastes – “what we are looking for” — may be inferred from the quoted passages (which will change often): a sense of the uncanny, foremost, and of the fineness of language, the huge absences to which it points and...
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Pocket Samovar is an international literary magazine dedicated to underrepresented post-Soviet writing, art & diaspora. We originated in 2019 as a group of Jack Kerouac School students influenced—but not determined—by our Soviet...
Read moreReading Period: Feb 15 to Jun 30Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: BIPOC Voices, Experimental, Healing/Health, LGBTQ Voices, Lyric Essay, Poetry, Political, Regional, Translation -
Each issue focuses on a specific kind of poetry. Check the guidelines to view our current call for submisions.
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We enjoy poetry from accomplished as well as emerging poets. Each issue has a unique theme and we encourage unique perspectives and interpretations of each theme. We like all forms of poetry, but tend to shy away from sing-songy forced rhyme. We...
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Established in 1889, Poet Lore is the oldest continuously published poetry magazine in the United States. Poet Lore publishes semi-annual installments of the finest contemporary poetry both by established writers and those breaking into print. We...
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Editors are interested in works that have the courage to acknowledge, challenge, and celebrate modern Jewish life beyond distinctions of secular and sacred.
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We like accessible works that find fresh meaning in old traditions that recognize ...Reading Period: Jan 1 to Oct 31Genre: PoetrySubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Poetry, Religious/Spiritual -
POETRY embraces the "open-door policy" set forth by founding editor, Harriet Monroe. As she put it, we "desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is...
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Poetry East, edited by Richard Jones, is committed to an art that is immediate, accessible, and universal. Poetry East is described by Choice as “one of the best current journals of poetry” and ranked by London’s Poetry Review as one of...
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Poetry International is a celebration of poetry on a global scale. Each issue is a unique collection of original works, translations, and reviews, with every issue showcasing the contemporary poetry of one nation. Some recent examples include:...
Read moreReading Period: Sep 1 to Dec 1, Mar 1 to Apr 30Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry -
After more than 60 years, we remain committed to publishing the best in contemporary poetry, especially work willing to take risks and push readers to the emotional and intellectual edge of what poetry makes possible. Edited and published on the...
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Poetry Pacific functions to publish and promote ‘the Best Contemporary Poetry in English’ it can find.
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Genre: Poetry -
The Poetry Porch is a magazine on the Internet for poets, teachers, and their students. First appearing online in 1997, it is only published on the Internet (so far). We are interested in original unpublished poems, essays, reviews,...
Read moreReading Period: Jan 15 to Mar 1Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Creative NonfictionSubgenres: Autobiography/Memoir, Literary Fiction, Prose Poetry -
Reading Period: Jan 1 to Dec 31Temporarily Closed to SubmissionsGenre: Poetry, Translation
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Poetry Quarterly is a poetry journal with a focus on modern poetic style. We accept submissions of all subject matter.
The purpose of Poetry Quarterly is to publish great poetry. That’s it. We do not care about the popularity of a poet, or...
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