They recently posted an article on where to submit in August and September. Click here to read the complete article.
Special thanks to David Antonio Moody, who put together a fantastic version of this list sorted and linked by date in this Google doc.
I then took his list and further filtered it below to the markets still open with no submission fees. Read all the guidelines carefully before submitting your work.
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The following listings from the article are still open, have no fees, and accept poetry submissions:
Presses
August 15
Broadkill River Press - Dogfish Head Poetry Prize / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Poetry Collections by Poets Living in Mid-Atlantic States
Grayson Books Poetry Prize / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Poetry / Prize: $1,000 + Publication
August 31
Red Hen Press - Quill Award for Queer Prose / Deadline: August 31, 2017 / Prose by a Queer Writer
Pleiades Press - Visual Poetry Series / Deadline: August 31, 2017 / Visual Poetry
September 1
Upper Hand Press / Deadline: September 1 / Fiction, Poetry, Criticism
September 15
Eyewear Editions - Beverly Series / Deadline: September 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Criticism
Now/Year-Round
BlazeVOX / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Boost House / Now / Poetry
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
El Balazo Press / Now / All Genres
FIELD Translation Series / Now / Poetry in Translation (Queries Only)
Headmistress Press / Now / Poetry by Lesbians
Inlandia Books / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Writers from Inland Southern California
Inside the Castle / Now / Prose, Poetry
Orison Books / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry in Translation
Platypus Press / Year-Round / Prose, Essays, Poetry
Salò Press / Now / Poetry, Prose, Experiments
Short Flight/Long Drive Books / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Uncategorizable
Spork Press / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid
Spurl Editions / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation
Spuyten Duyvil / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Cross-Genre
Vegetarian Alcoholic Press / Year-Round / Poetry
Chapbooks
August 31
dancing girl press / May 1 - August 31, 2017 / Poetry by Women
September 1
Big Lucks / September 1 - October 15, 2017 / Poetry
Now/Year-Round
above/ground press / Now / Poetry
ATTN: Open Archive Series / Now / Multiple-Author Poetry Collections and Archives
ATTN: Correspondences / Now / Poetry Collaborations
Bottlecap Press / Now / Poetry, Fiction
Damaged Goods Press / Now / Poetry, Essays, and Hybrid Writing from Queer and Trans Writers
Disorder Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Art Work, Photography
Epigraph - Digital Chapbooks / Now / Poetry
Neck Press / Year-Round / Poetry
Throwback Books / Now / Poetry, Prose
Underground Voices e-shorts / Now / Poetry, Short Stories, Experimental
Journals & Anthologies
August 7
So to Speak / August 7 - October 20, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
August 15
Anomaly (Formerly Drunken Boat) - GLITTERBRAIN Folio / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Poetry, Hybrid Work, and Essays on Poetics by QTPOC Writers Who Identify as Mentally Ill or Neurodivergent
The Southampton Review / August 15 - October 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Copper Nickel / August 15, 2017 - April 1, 2018 / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Translation Folios
The Boiler / June 15 - August 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bombay Gin 44: A Constellation of Ghosts / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Prose, Poetry, Cross-Genre, Art, Video, Reviews, Interviews
Epigraph / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Poetry
Gigantic Sequins / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Art
Mom Egg Review / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / All Genres
No, Dear / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Poetry
Prisma - Zeitblatt für Text & Sprache / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / All Genres
Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought / Deadline: August 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
August 20
thread arts collective / Deadline: August 20, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Media, Mixed Media
tinywords / Deadline: August 31, 2017 / Haiku, Micropoetry
August 31
The Bookends Review / May 1 - August 31, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, Reviews, Music, Visual Art
August 31, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Images, Hybrids
Matador Review / Deadline: August 31, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Visual Art
Revue Post / Deadline: August 31, 2017 / Poetry in English and French
Rhino / April 1 - August 31, 2017 / Poetry, Translations of Poetry, Flash Fiction
Midwestern Gothic / Deadline: August 31, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
September 1
The Hunger / September 1 - December 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid/Experimental, Art
Habitat / September 1 - December 31, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
jubilat / September 1, 2017 - April 1, 2018 / Poetry
Slant / September 1 - November 15, 2017 / Poetry
Sycamore Review / September 1, 2017 - March 31, 2018 / Poetry, Prose, Nonfiction, Art
Seneca Review / Deadline: September 1 - October 15, 2017 / Poetry, Essays
Bayou Magazine / September 1, 2017 - May 1, 2018 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
ZYZZYVA / September 1 - November 30, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry / Submit by Post
The Asian American Literary Review / Deadline: September 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Translations
The Account / Deadline: September 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Anomaly (Formerly Drunken Boat) / Deadline: September 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Art, and Video with a Focus on International and Intersectional Literature
apt / Year-Round (Print Deadline: September 1, 2017) / Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Reviews, Art, Audio, Video
Booth / Opens September 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Lists
Cease, Cows / Now / Flash Fiction, Poetry (Opens September 1)
Interim / June 1 - September 1, 2017 / Poetry, Translation, Criticism, Reviews, Hybrid
Sidereal Magazine / Deadline: September 1, 2017 / Poetry, Essays
September 10
Horn & Ivory / Deadline: September 10, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
September 15
Grist Journal / Deadline: September 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews, Craft Essays
LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction / Deadline: September 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Obra/Artifact / Deadline: September 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry in the Expanded Field, Art
Raspa Magazine / Deadline: September 15, 2017 / Fiction, Essays, and Poetry by Queer Latinos
WSQ - Protest Issue / Deadline: September 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
September 20
Papercuts / Deadline: September 20, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
September 30
aglimpseof - The Uncontrollable Issue / Deadline: September 30, 2017 / Prose, Poetry, Essay, Visual Art, Sound Art, Hybrids
Ilanot Review / Deadline: September 30, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
October and Beyond
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art / Deadline: October 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Art, Photography, Comics
Anastamos / Deadline: Deadline: October 1, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Photography, Video, Academic
Heron Tree / Deadline: October 1, 2017 / Poetry
Bridge Eight Literary Magazine / Deadline: October 1, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Ghost Proposal / Deadline: October 1, 2017 / Essay, Poetry, Multimedia, Cross-Genre, Post-Genre
Best New British and Irish Poets 2018 / Deadline: October 2, 2017 / Poetry by Residents of the UK or Ireland / £10.00 / Judge: Maggie Smith
Rambutan Literary / Deadline: October 5, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Art from Southeast Asian Writers
Sixth Finch / Deadline: October 5, 2017 / Poetry, Art
Gingerbread House Literary Magazine / Deadline: October 15, 2017 / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction with Magical Elements
Angel City Review / Deadline: October 15, 2017 / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Reviews from West Coast Writers
The Southampton Review / August 15 - October 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Drama
Black Sun Lit - Vestiges_03: Mimesis / Deadline: October 15, 2017 / Prose, Poetry, Essays, Translations, Art
Puerto del Sol - The Science Issue / Deadline: October 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Other
Lunch Ticket / Deadline: October 31, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Prose, YA, Translations, Bilingual, Art
Portland Review / Deadline: October 31, 2017 / Poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography
Winter Tangerine / November 1, 2017 / Prose, Poetry, Art
Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry / January 1 - November 30, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
The Hunger / Deadline: December 15, 2017 / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Hybrid/Experimental, Art
Apricity Press / Deadline: January 1, 2017 / Poetry, Prose, Art, Dance
Now/Year-Round
400 and Falling Press / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Visual Art, Creative Non-Fiction, Criticism
Aaduna / Now / Prose, Poetry, Visual Art
The Acentos Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Cross-Genre, Art
Alien Mouth / Now / Poetry
Anomaly (Formerly Drunken Boat) - Pulse: One Year Later / Now / LGBTQ+ Latinx Poetry and Essays Looking Back After the Orlando Massacre
Apartment Poetry / Year-Round / Poetry
Asymptote / Year-Round / Translations of Drama, Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction
AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought / Year-Round / All Genres
Bad Pony / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
Bear Review / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Flash Nonfiction
Beech Street Review / Now / Poetry
Birdfeast / Year-Round / All Genres
BOAAT / Now / Poetry
Bodega Magazine / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
(b)OINK / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Blue Earth Review / Year-Round / Nonfiction, Poetry
Bone Bouquet / Now / Poetry, Reviews
Boston Review / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction, Reviews
Bottlecap Press - Blog / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Multimedia
Buddy / Now / Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction about Mental Health
CALAMITY / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Calamus Journal / Year-Round / Flash Fiction, Poetry
Callaloo / Now / Essays, Fiction, Poetry, Art
The Cardiff Review / Now / Prose, Poetry, Reviews, Illustrations, Photography, Comics
Cartridge Lit / Now / Poetry and Short Prose Inspired by Video Games
Cleaver Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Radio Plays
Cleaver Magazine - Life As Activism / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Cloud Rodeo / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Collapsar / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Reviews
The Continental Review / Year-Round / Video Poetry
Cordite Poetry Review / Now / Poetry
Cosmonauts Avenue / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Crab Fat Magazine / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Visual Art, Interviews, Reviews
decomP Magazine / Year-Round/ Prose, Poetry, Art
Deluge / Year-Round / Poetry, Essays, Fiction, Reviews, Criticism, Poem-films, Photography, Art
The Destroyer / Now / Poems, Prose, New Media
Dogbird / Year-Round / Collaborative Writing
Dream Pop Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Flash, Nonfiction, Cross-Genre, Sound, Visual art
DREGINALD / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Art
Dryland / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
DUM DUM Zine / Year-Round / Fiction, Letters, Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
El Balazo Press / Now / Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays
Elm Leaves Journal / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Interviews, Reviews
elsewhere / Now / Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Entropy / Year-Round / Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fiction, Poetry, More
Every Pigeon / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Photography, Art
Fantastic Floridas / Now / Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Related to Florida
The Fem / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Spoken Word, Art
Figure 1 / Year-Round / Poetry
FIVE:2:ONE / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art
Flag + Void / Year-Round / Poetry
Foundry / Year-Round / Poetry
Foothill: a journal of poetry / Year-Round / Poetry by Graduate Students
F(r)iction / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics
Gertrude Press / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
Ghost City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Art, Reviews, Other
Gobbet / Now / Poetry, Prose
Gold Wake Live / Now / All Genres
Gravel / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Flash, Art, Videos, Reviews, Interviews
Graviton / Now / Poetry, Art
Greying Ghost Press- Pamphlet and Art Zine Submissions / Now / Poetry, Essays, Translations, Lists, Art
Grimoire Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Dreams, Dead Letters, Séances
Guernica / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
The Harpoon Review / Now / All Genres
Hardly Doughnuts / Year-Round / Poetry, Micro Fiction
Heavy Athletics / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Non Fiction, Visual Art, Audio
Heavy Feather Review - #NotMyPresident / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Journalism, Comics, Hybrids
Hermeneutic Chaos / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Art
Hinchas de Poesia / Now / Poesia, Prosa, Artefactos, Reseñas
Hobart online / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction
Huizache / Now / Prose, Poetry
Hyperallergic / Now / Poetry (See Bottom of Poetry Posts for Submission Guidelines)
ICHNOS / Now
Identity Theory / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Indianapolis Review / Year-Round / Poetry, Art
Indicia / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction, Art
Jokes Review / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
The Journal / Year-Round / Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Interviews, Reviews
jmww / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Josephine Quarterly / Now / Poetry, Art
Juked / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
JuxtaProse / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography
Kartika Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry and Nonfiction from Asian Pacific Islander American Writers
Kweli / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Multimedia
Lambda Literary's Poetry Spotlight / Now / Poetry from LGBT Poets
Lavender Review / Year-Round / Poetry and Art by Lesbians
LEVELER / Year-Round / Poetry
Lime Hawk - Online / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Art
Linden Avenue Literary Journal / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Art
littletell / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Audio, Visual
Luna Luna / Now / Nonfiction, Poetry, Spells, Reviews, Art
Mannequin Haus / Year-Round / All Genres
The Margins / Now / Poetry, Nonfiction
Matter Monthly / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose
Maudlin House / Now / Fiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry
Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Essays, Reviews, Art, Videos
Moon City Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, Reviews
Moonglasses Magazine / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash, Cross-Genre
Moonsick Magazine / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry by Women
Mortar / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Short Shorts, Nonfiction
Neck Press Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction
New Poetry in Translation / Year-Round / Poetry in Translation
Newfound / Year-Round / Fiction, Flash, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reviews, Translation, Art
Nightblock / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Nonbinary Review / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Flash Fiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Visual Art
The Nottingham Review / Now / Fiction, Poetry
Oxidant | Engine / Year-Round / Poetry
Pacifica Literary Review / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Art
Perigee / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Centering Marginalized Voices, Work Responding to Imperialism
'Pider / Now / Poetry
Pinball / Now / Fiction, Nonfiction, Comics, Art, Audio
Plath Poetry Project / Now / Poetry and Prose Responding to Sylvia Plath
POETRYSEEN / Year-Round / Video Poetry, Art
Polychrome Ink / Now / All Genres
Porridge Magazine / Academic Essays, Poetry, Fiction, Art
Pretty Owl Poetry / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Art
Puerto del Sol - Black Voices Series / Now / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Multimedia
Queen Mob's Tea House / Now / Poetry, Art, Fiction, Essays
Rattle / Year-Round / Poetry
Reality Beach / Now / Poetry, Video
Reality Hands / Now / Short Stories, Poetry
Redivider / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Comics, Art
Requited / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Performance Text, Visual, Video
Salò Press - Milk: An Anthology of Eroticism / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
SCAB / Year-Round / Prose, Poetry, Art
Seattle Review / Year-Round / Essays and Fiction over 40 pages, Poems over 10 Pages
SHANTIH Journal / Year-Round / Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Flash, Drama, Art, Photography
SiDEKiCK / Year-Round / Poetry
Sinister Wisdom / Now / Poems, Stories, Essays, and Art by Lesbians
So and So / Now / Poetry
Sporklet / Now / Fiction, Poetry
The Stay Project / Now / Poems, Portraits, Sound Pieces, Lists, Experiments, Conundrums, Rants, and Responses Related to the Political Present
Stirring: A Literary Collection / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Reviews, Art
Storm Cellar / Now / Nonfiction, Flash, Fiction, Poetry, Images
SUSAN / Now / Poetry, Flash Fiction
TAGVVERK / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Art
tenderness, yea / Now / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Hybrid
Threadcount Magazine / Year-Round / Hybrid, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Tourniquet / Year-Round / Reviews of Poetry Books
Transition / Now / Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Art about Africa and the African Diaspora
Trop / Now / Humor, Essays, Short Fiction, Fake Reviews
Two Lines / Now / Translations of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays
Unbroken Journal / Now / Prose Poems, Poetic Prose
Uncle Ken Presents / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction
Union Station Magazine / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography
Ursus Americanus Press - Landfill / Year-Round / Poetry
Vagabond City / 1st-15th of Every Month / Poetry, Prose, Art
Virga / Year-Round / Poetry, Hybrid
Voicemail Poems / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
The Wanderer / Now / Poetry, Prose, Reviews
Weekly Gramma / Year-Round / Poetry
Wildness / Year-Round / Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Willawaw Journal / Deadline: November 19, 2017 / Poetry, Poetry-Art Hybrids
Window / Now / All Genres
Winter Tangerine - Lineage of Mirrors / Year-Round / Poetry from Poets of Color
Word For/Word / Year-Round / Poetry, Prose, Poetics, Criticism, Visuals
Wreck Park / Now / Prose, Poetry, Criticism
Yemassee / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Flash Nonfiction, Flash Fiction
Yes Poetry / Now / Poetry
ythm / Year-Round / Audio Poetry
ZiN Daily / Year-Round / Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry in English, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, French, German, and Italian