Several of these are paying markets. This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines.

Before submitting, read my Submission Tips and to check other paying markets for emerging writers and how they are rated, download my spreadsheet:  Poetry Magazine/Journal Ratings for Emerging Poets with Paying Markets.

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Ploughshares

DEADLINE: 1/15/2015

NOTES: $3 Submission Fee

"Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Best known for our award-winning Ploughshares literary journal, we also publish Ploughshares Solos [listed separately], digital-first long stories and essays, and a lively literary blog. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston."

FORMS:  fiction, non-fiction, poetry

PAYMENT:  Per Duotrope: "Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem)."

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/134

The Museum of Americana

DEADLINE: 1/15/2015

NOTES: "Give us love poetry that mixes language cribbed from The Federalist Papers with language cribbed from WWII propaganda posters. We want medicine shows and riverboats, Doo-Wop and Duke Snider. We want aspects of Americana we may not have even heard of yet."

FORMS:  fiction, non-fiction, poetry

PAYMENT:  None

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/8159

The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society

DEADLINE: 1/15/2015

NOTES:  "The basic purpose of The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society is to publish works that are unlikely be published by more mainstream publications. The RP&D Society strives to give representation to new ideas and thoughts, to challenge the reader and to question commonly accepted opinions, values, etiquette and ideas."

FORMS:  fiction, non-fiction, poetry

PAYMENT:  None

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/13808

Kenyon Review

DEADLINE: 1/15/2015

NOTES:  "The mission of The Kenyon Review is to identify exceptionally talented emerging writers, especially from diverse communities, and publish their work (fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, reviews, etc.) alongside the many distinguished, established writers featured in its pages."

FORMS:  fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, reviews, etc.

PAYMENT:  Per Duotrope: "Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem)."

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/67

Porkbelly Press

DEADLINE: 1/31/2015

NOTES:  "Porkbelly Press is an independent (small) chapbook press based in Porkopolis (Cincinnati, Ohio), where pigs fly. We print in limited & open editions and handbind everything we make. We consider works ranging from literary to genre work, with a preference for speculative fiction and fabulism."

FORMS:  poetry, fiction, nonfiction

PAYMENT:  None

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/13876

Switchback

DEADLINE: 1/31/2015

NOTES:  "Switchback is a publication of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program of the University of San Francisco."

FORMS:  poetry, fiction, nonfiction

PAYMENT:  "For our next issue, an Editor’s Prize will be awarded in the amount of $200.00 to the submission we find the most inspiring, jarring, outstanding, or just downright brilliant. Additional prizes in the amounts of $75.00 and $50.00 will be awarded to the first two runners up. There is, amazingly, no fee to enter! Please read the guidelines below carefully before submitting. On behalf of everyone here at Switchback, thank you for considering us!"

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/2077

Berkeley Poetry Review

DEADLINE: 2/1/2015

NOTES:  "The Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR), the longstanding poetry journal affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, has published an annual issue of poetry and interviews since 1974."

FORMS:  poetry

PAYMENT:  None

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/2714

The Meadow

DEADLINE: 2/1/2015

NOTES:  "Welcome to the literary and arts journal of Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. The Meadow publishes work from beginning and experienced writers and artists each spring."

FORMS:  poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, photography, comics, graphic design work and other literary and artistic forms

PAYMENT:  None

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/1752

Solarwyrm Press

DEADLINE: 2/15/2015

NOTES:  "We're not drawn to experimental or heavy-handed genre fiction." According to  Duotrope, this market ranks among the 25 Most Challenging Fiction Markets in their database.

FORMS:  fiction (any genre), non-fiction, and poetry

PAYMENT:  "The author will receive 1 paperback copy of the anthology, and be paid at the rate of 1/2 a cent per word, which equates to a maximum of US$40."

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/15856

Slice

DEADLINE: 3/1/2015

NOTES:  "Solarwyrm Press is seeking submissions for a new anthology titled Marked by Scorn: An anthology featuring non-traditional relationships. This anthology is open to fiction (any genre), non-fiction, and poetry."

FORMS:   Short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art

PAYMENT:  "We offer all contributors of Slice a monetary award for their work ($100 for stories and essays and $25 for poems)."

DUOTROPE: https://duotrope.com/listing/2436