Print publication The Alchemy Spoon will be open from 1 to 28 February 2023 for poems on the theme of ‘Graffiti’. The editors have quite strict rules for formatting your submissions, so visit the submissions page here for full information.
Poetry publications
New magazine En Bloc
New paying market for poems, fiction, art and photography. Will appear in digital and print. Deadline for issue 1: 15 January 2021. More info here.
Third Wednesday journal
Third Wednesday is a quarterly print journal of creative writing. Submit up to 3 poems via the Submittable link. Click here for full details.
192 Magazine
You have until 31 July 2020 to submit up to four unpublished poems to this new ezine: https://poetsdirectory.co.uk/192 Remember to add a cover note, even if it’s just “Please find attached…”
The Alchemy Spoon
This new UK-based poetry magazine is open to submissions of poems for its first issue (up to 3 per poet) until 30 June 2020. International submissions are welcome. The Alchemy Spoon will appear three times per year and will be available in online and print-on-demand formats. The editors are especially interested in work by ‘new phase’ poets – those who have come to poetry later in life. The theme for issue 1 is ‘Time’. Full submission details (including font/document requirements) here.
Butcher’s Dog
Poets living in the UK or ROI are invited to submit up to three unpublished poems to issue 13 of this publication. Guest editor is Aoife Lyall. Deadline is midnight on 14 February 2020. Full details: https://www.butchersdogmagazine.co.uk/2020-submit
Mizmore Poetry Anthology 2019
Annual anthology from the editors of Poetica Publishing/Poetica Magazine. Deadline: 15 August 2019. Read the submissions guidelines carefully, as they are quite specific.
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Rituals poems for Here Comes Everyone
Website link: http://herecomeseveryone.me/submit
Worldwide submissions are invited by literary magazine Here Comes
Everyone, on the theme of RITUALS.
Deadline for The Rituals Issue is 1st July 2018.
The following is in the editors’ own words:
“Here Comes Everyone magazine is looking for submissions of poetry (plus
fiction, artwork and non-fiction). We encourage bold/striking
interpretations and reflections upon the theme.
Routines. Traditions. Religious festivals. The occult.
Births…marriages…death… Is life just one big ritual?
Share your stories, ideas and perspectives with us.”
POETRY: up to 3 poems of no longer than 30 lines each.
FICTION: stories may be up to 2,000 words.
NON-FICTION: articles/essays may be up to 1,500 words.
ARTWORK: all visual forms (300 dpi and 640 x 640 resolution)
Frontier Poetry
Frontier Poetry magazine is open year-round to submissions from poets who have published no more than one full-length poetry collection. It is free to submit (unless you choose the ‘Fast Response’ option), and poems are paid at a rate of $50 for one poem, up to a maximum of $150. Full details here.
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