Best Places to Submit Poetry: A Ranking of Literary Magazines by John Fox + updated with payment/submission fees
Trish Hopkinson
Thanks to John Fox for putting together this amazing list of Best Places to Submit Poetry. He actually went through 5 years worth (2011 – 2015) of the anthology The Best American Poetryto see where the poems had been originally published. The result was a list of 147 literary magazines. I took this list a step further–made sure the lit mag was still around, checked their payment level, and whether or not they charge submission fees. My updated table is below.
Definitely check out John Fox’s web site Bookfox. He tells his story on the About page and offers some incredible resources for writers, such as the Best Places to Submit Poetry list and other rankings like 100 Best Literary Magazines for Fiction. You can subscribe to his monthly email newsletter here: http://thejohnfox.com/writamins/.
“Bookfox is my gift back to the literary community that supported me through my writing journey. Because I believe that the writing community needs to support its own. It's a hard journey. Nothing is harder than writing. Yet with other writers at your side, it's a little less lonely.”
Here’s my updates to his list with any important notes, payment level, and whether or not they typically charge submission fees. Most don’t charge fees and many are paying markets. The list is sorted the same as the original article, with the literary magazine with the most poems in the anthologies first and those with only one last. For more info on how the list was originally created, see the original article.
Note that some may not currently be open for submissions. If you use Duotrope, you can track most market’s reading period dates by clicking the little light blue track icon in the Submission Periods section. To see which markets you’re tracking, select Your Deadlines from the Account menu.
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