Posts Tagged ‘Free to Submit’

Since poetry’s value is not monetarily matched, most self-identified poets are rarely paid for published work. Between working (for money), reading, and writing, there’s little time to submit, and frequently, submissions carry fees. To bring a bit of relief, below are a few journals and presses who will read and consider a poet’s work for free.

 

Don’t get stuck in a fruitless edit on the way to save and send; these deadlines are soon:

The Golden Key
Poetry & Fiction
Theme: “sharp things”
Deadline July 31st, 2012

For this issue, we are looking for things that are sharp.

Send us your knives and scalpels, your cutting remarks. We’re looking for pins and needles, shards and jagged edges, sudden turns and abrupt drops. We like cardsharps and sharpshooters, cloak and dagger, poisoned darts. Think of sharp notes, sharp pains, sharp wits. Show up at twelve o’clock sharp. Beware the spindle to prick your finger. Do not peer into broken mirrors. Send us stories that pierce us something awful. Something wonderful.

 

Bank-Heavy Press - Quarterly Anthology
Poetry, Short Fiction, Art
Theme: “Kisses with Fishes”
Deadline July 31st, 2012 

We don’t have a set aesthetic, but recommend buying one of our back issues to see how we tend to roll.

Bank-Heavy Press has one major goal: to bring great poetry and fiction and art to print while building a community of creative people of all talents, ages, forms, and backgrounds. Poetry, fiction and art shouldn’t need to conform to any one type for recognition. We tear up at the sight and sounds of fresh, raw, energy in any shape or form.

So, here we are pulling road-kill from pavement and digging in trashcans to bring you what the corporations want to hide, the best stuff from the lowest and highest places to fill your minds with the art of everyone that is licking splinters and hugging rabid animals.

Print must not die!

 

Popshot Magazine
Poetry, Short Fiction, Illustration
Theme: “Birth”
Deadline July 31st, 2012 

Interpret the theme imaginatively and with a touch of the surreal…we’re suckers for that. We especially look for original, succinct, and thought provoking work – the kind that will allow our readers to view the theme in a way that they may not have otherwise considered. Although we expect a number of poems/short stories based on the literal meaning of birth, please think more metaphorically!

 

Sink Review
Poetry
Deadline: July 31st, 2012
(Post image: “Chart” by Dustin Dennis, Issue 9)

Sink Review is a journal focused on contemporary poetry. We publish a new electronic number twice a year.

 

No, Dear
Poetry – NYC Poets Only
Theme: FASCIMILIE
Deadline: August 1st, 2012 

No, Dear is a slim volume of new local poems loosely centered on a single-word theme. Hand-made in Brooklyn, NY.

 

Rattle
Poetry
Deadline: August 1st, 2012

We like poems of any length. We’re looking for poems that move us, pieces that might make us laugh or cry, or teach us something new. Though most of the poems that we publish are free verse, that doesn’t mean we don’t like traditional forms. If you’re confident in your sonnet or villanelle, send it. We read a lot of poems, and only those that are unique, insightful, and musical stand out. Since our issues include about 80-100 pages of poetry, one of the main things we’re looking for is diversity; we have enough room to be eclectic, and we plan on using it. So while most magazines suggest reading their back issues to get a sense of what they like to publish, we’d suggest reading to get a sense of what we’re having trouble finding–if you notice a style or subject matter that we don’t seem to be publishing, send us that!

 

Cordite Poetry Review
Poetry (text, sound, image, and video)
Theme: INTERLOCUTOR
Guest Poetry Editor: Libby Hart
Deadline: August 14th, 2012 

Poetry is in nonstop dialogue with the world. Each symbol, line, frame, beat or stanza enters into a conversation. They question. Poetry is interrogation. It is instruction.

In fact, it can be most anything you want it to be. Absurd. Open-minded. A fragment of a speaker’s speech that becomes drama or humour. A Glaucon to your Socrates. A Casio to your Moog to your Farfifsa. Who is the speaker? Who is listening? Are you willing to have a conversation? If you play Defender, can you be our hyperspace?

 

Find more listings and keep track of submitted work at Duotrope, “an award-winning, free writers’ resource listing over 3500 current Fiction and Poetry publications.”

 

– Stephanie Ann Whited

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