The literary magazines/journals listed below all offer some form of payment, do not charge submission/reading fees, take online submissions, and have submission deadlines starting February 15 through March 31, 2018.
This list focuses on poetry submissions, but most lit mags accept prose and art as well. The listings are in order of closest deadlines.
The Spectacle
DEADLINE: February 15, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: poetry, fiction, nonfiction
PAYMENT: $50
Subprimal Poetry Art
Read my interview with their editor here.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
PAYMENT: $20 for previously unpublished/$10 for reprints
NOTES: Takes reprints, turn around time averages 31 days according to Duotrope
FORMS: poetry, flash prose, art, essays on the creative process
LANGUAGE: English and Spanish
Texas Poetry Calendar
Read my interview with the editor here.
DEADLINE: February 20, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMAT: combination journal, planner, calendar printed on 6X9 spiral bound card stock
PAYMENT: $20 per poem
FORMS: poetry (35 lines or less), including poems partly or entirely in Spanish (please include translation)
NOTES: No simultaneous submissions.
Suburban Review
DEADLINE: February 18, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: Open to Australian women, femmes and gender non-conforming folx.
FORMS: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, art
PAYMENT: $75 – $150
Chicken Soup for the Soul
DEADLINE: February 28, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: nonfiction, poetry
PAYMENT: $200
Ninth Letter
DEADLINE: February 28, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: essays, poetry
PAYMENT: $25
Apparition Lit
DEADLINE: February 28, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
THEME: Delusion
FORMS: short stories, poetry
PAYMENT: $0.01 per word, minimum of 10.00
Darkhouse Books: Sanctuary
DEADLINE: February 28, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
THEME: Sanctuary, refuge, shelter, or asylum, from the perspective of those offering, seeking, denying, or destroying it
FORMS: poetry, flash, short fiction, and creative nonfiction
PAYMENT: 50% of royalties
Mizna
DEADLINE: February 28, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
THEME: The Playing Field: The Politics of Sports – relevant to the Arab-American audience
FORMS: poetry, stories, creative essays, flash fiction, comix, and other literary interpretations
PAYMENT: Honorarium
Winter Tangerine
Read my interview with the editor here.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2018 (tip jar submissions are open year-round)
SUBMISSION FEE: None
PAYMENT: Contributors to all WT issues, regardless of genre, are compensated with $20.
FORMS: Prose, visual art, poetry
Contrary Magazine
Read my interview with the editor here.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2018
FORMAT: digitally online
SUBMISSION FEE: None
PAYMENT: For original commentary, fiction, and poetry, Contrary Magazine pays $20 per author per issue, regardless of the number of works or nature of the submission. Reviews and Contrary Blog posts are usually unpaid. Author must email us an invoice within six months of acceptance for the payment to be processed. If no invoice is received within six months of acceptance, author forfeits payment, but all rights remain in force. Upon receipt of invoice, payments will be made through Paypal.
FORMS: fiction, poetry, and commentary
The Blue Route
DEADLINE: March 1, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: Undergraduate students only
FORMS: poetry, prose
PAYMENT: $25
THEMA
DEADLINE: March 1, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
THEME: New Neighbors
FORMS: fiction, poetry, essays
PAYMENT: $10
The Cincinnati Review
DEADLINE: March 1, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: prose, poetry
PAYMENT: $25 – $30 per page
Goblin Fruit
DEADLINE: March 3, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: fantastical poetry
FORMS: poetry
PAYMENT: $15
Arkansas International
DEADLINE: March 10, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: fantastical poetry
FORMS: fiction, poetry, essays, comics, works in translation
PAYMENT: $20 per page, max $250
Southword
DEADLINE: March 15, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: prose, poetry
PAYMENT: €30 per poem and €120 per short story. Payment to writers within the Republic of Ireland is made by cheque. Writers abroad must accept payment through Paypal.
Eye to the Telescope
DEADLINE: March 15, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
NOTES: speculative poetry
FORMS: poetry
PAYMENT: 3¢/word rounded to nearest dollar; min. $3, max. $25
Sycamore Review
DEADLINE: March 31, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None (until they hit about 800 submissions for the month)
FORMS: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art
PAYMENT: $50 prose, $25 poem
Notre Dame Review
DEADLINE: March 31, 2018
SUBMISSION FEE: None
FORMS: poetry, fiction
PAYMENT: Small gratuity
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Hey Trish! Thanks for adding Apparition Lit to your list of paying mags! We had some great poems for our first issue and look forward to receiving more from new writers! I just wanted to mention that you have our magazine name listed as ‘Delusion’ when that’s the quarterly theme.
Thanks again!
Rebecca (Editor from Apparition Lit)
Ohhh thank you! I'll fix it.