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Where to find literary magazines and other publishers

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Want to submit your poetry, fiction, or nonfiction to literary magazines, journals, and presses? On the sites below you can learn which ones are open for submissions, and what they’re looking for.

Except where noted, all of the sites below are free to use, although you may need to sign up for a free account first. Some offer a tracking feature where you can monitor or report the status of your submissions.

Market listings with submissions trackers

Duotrope

  • paid: $5/month or $50/year
  • 7200+ fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual art publishers
  • submission tracker
  • new listings added often; existing ones are kept up to date

Submittable Discover

  • lists publishers and presses which are open for submissions through Submittable
  • submissions tracking

CLMP Directory of Independent Literary Publishers

  • lists presses, magazines, and online publishers
  • a digital resource and offspring of CLMP’s former annual print directory

Poets and Writers

  • listings of literary magazines, small presses, and literary agents.
  • submissions tracker

Literarium

  • over 600 market listings
  • submissions tracker
  • fairly new, but growing

The Grinder

  • over 2,600 open poetry and fiction markets listed
  • submissions tracker

Entropy’s Where to Submit

  • lists presses, chapbooks, journals and anthologies, residencies, fellowships, and other opportunities
  • updated seasonally

The Review Review

  • an extensive listing of literary magazines
  • also offers reviews of literary magazines

Lambda Literary’s Calls for Submission

  • lists calls for submissions for literary magazines, presses, and anthologies

Trish Hopkinson’s Where to Submit

  • Poet Trish Hopkinson’s website lists current calls for submissions in various categories, and many more poetry resources

The Poetry Kit

  • Poet Jim Bennet’s Poetry Kit is a resource site for poetry.
  • announces calls for submissions
  • lists online and print magazines
  • also lists open mic events, competitions, news, grants, festivals, poets, etc.
  • offers classes and a bookshop

New Pages

  • lists literary magazines, writing contests, and calls for submissions

Every Writer’s Resource

  • lists literary magazines and book publishers

Writer’s Cafe

  • lists literary magazines, publishers, agents, and other resources

The Loft

  • lists calls for submissions, contents and grants, and more

Cathy’s Comps and Calls

  • updated monthly
  • lists competitions/residencies; submissions with deadlines; submissions without deadlines

Writer’s Database

  • lists literary magazines and publishers
  • not sure how up-to-date this site is

Calls for Submissions Facebook Group

  • publishers posts calls for submissions

Writer’s Market

  • $5.99/month, $24.99/6 months, $39.99/year
  • online listings of literary magazines, presses, and more
  • annually published books also available: Writer’s Market, Poet’s Market, etc.

FirstWriter

  • paid: $4.49/month.
    (much smaller than Duotrope for almost the same cost, with a confusing interface)
  • market listings (4,000 markets, including 2,400 magazines)
  • submission tracker

CRWROPPS

  • Formerly a Yahoo group/list, CrWrOpps (Creative Writers Opportunities) has moved to Blogspot, where new calls are posted often. (Publishers: send calls for submissions, with complete details, to [email protected])

Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity

  • current calls for submission and resources

Other places that publish poetry

Don’t forget publishing opportunities close to home. These might include:

  • local magazines or weekly newspapers
  • publications associated with your workplace, school, church, or activity groups

There’s even an outdoors magazine in my area which publishes a poem or two in each issue. These publishers are out there but usually don’t show up in the market listings.

Do you know of other market listings?

If you know of a resource not mentioned here, please let me know!

Empty Mirror on the sites above

EM at Duotrope   ∘   EM at Submittable   ∘   EM at CLMP   ∘   EM at Poets & Writers   ∘   EM at Literarium   ∘   EM at The Grinder   ∘   EM at Every Writer’s Resource   ∘   EM at Writer’s Cafe   ∘   EM at Writer’s Database   ∘   EM at FirstWriter

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Empty Mirror

Empty Mirror publishes new poetry, criticism, essays, book reviews, and art every Friday.

Author: Empty Mirror Tags: on writing, publishing Category: Writing & Publishing January 29, 2019

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