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74 Poetry Lit Mags Publishing Previously Published Poems (open now)

December 22, 2022
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Have you ever tried to figure out what previously published means? It's a freakin' maze. For some, it feels like you better never have even spoken your poem aloud otherwise they don't want it. Yes! Even if you just whispered them to yourself in a dark room. For others, it's fine so long as they were only published on Twitter in six parts on a Tuesday sometime after the turn of the century. Woof. But thankfully, these literary magazines don't give two whistling shits where it was published, and they want your work right now. So, as all the great minds of our generation say, 'just give up and take the easy road.'

1) 96th of October

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96th of October

Quarterly online literary journal featuring TALES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY.

Responds:
17 days

Payment: No

Followers: -

2) Alebrijes Review

3) ALOCASIA

4) angelique zine

5) Archive of the Odd

6) Atlantis Creative Magazine

7) Bi Women Quarterly

8) The Bitchin’ Kitsch

9) Blue Lake Review (*note: We will consider work which has been previously published at least a year before in another publication. )

10) Bulb Culture Collective (*note: focus on previously published works that have lost their original home with journals that have gone dark.)

11) Buzgaga

12) COOP: chickens of our poetry (*note: Accept work previously published on personal blogs, social media, or forums)

13) Corvus Review

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Corvus Review

A small literary journal publishing pieces that sing. Submit and see if we like your tune! Always seeking weird and wond...

Responds:
61 days

Payment: No

Followers: 5k+

14) Dead Letter Radio (podcast)

15) Delicate Friend

16) eggplant tears

17) The Ekphrastic Review

18) Filter Coffee Zine

19) Fjords Review

20) FRiGG: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry

21) Front Porch Review

22) The Furious Gazelle

23) The Gorko Gazette

24) Green Splotches (defunct since Feb 2023)

25) Haikuniverse

26) Haven Speculative

27) healthline zine

28) Ice Lolly Review

29) Impossible Task

30) Indecent Magazine

31) JAKE

32) Jersey Devil Press

33) Kaleidoscope Magazine

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Kaleidoscope Magazine

Kaleidoscope Magazine creatively focuses on the experiences of disability through literature and the fine arts.

Responds:
79 days

Payment: No

Followers: -

34) Koening Zine

35) lavender lime literary

36) The Lumiere Review

37) Meditating Cat Zine

38) miniMAG

39) Moody

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Moody

A bi-monthly zine publication made up of paid artist contributions emphasizing queer and BIPOC creatives.

Responds:
133 days

Payment: No

Followers: -

40) Not Deer Magazine

41) Olympe

42) Overheard (*note: Only self-published (collection, blog, etc))

43) Palest Blue

44) Paranoid Tree Press

45) the Poet Heroic (podcast)

46) Poetry Online (poetry.onl)

47) Poetry Super Highway (*note: Accept work previously published only in print)

48) Polyphony Lit.

49) Radon Journal

50) Sad Goose Cooperative

51) Sage Cigarettes

52) Scrawl Place

53) Silver Operation

54) Sixpence Society Literary Journal

55) Sleet Magazine

56) Snowflake Magazine

57) Soft Star Magazine

58) Soul-Lit

59) Spiritus Mundi Review

60) Spoonie Magazine (defunct)

61) Stanza Cannon

62) Stone of Madness Press

63) Suburban Witchcraft Magazine

64) Tangled Laces Magazine

65) A Thin Slice of Anxiety

66) the tide rises, the tide falls

67) Travesties?! (*note: Also note that we are less likely to accept work still freely available online.)

68) Tropico Line (*note: Accept work previously published on personal pages)

69) Unlikely Stories

70) the voidspace (*note: We are more likely to accept previously published work if it: has been published somewhere that is not a traditional literary venue; or was published in a more traditional literary venue a year or more ago)

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the voidspace

We are looking for work the reader can interact with or influence in some way

Responds:
2 days

Payment: No

Followers: 5k+

71) The Wax Paper

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The Wax Paper

A broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, image, and collected conversation. The first priority of The...

Responds:
102 days

Payment: No

Followers: 500+

72) Wintermute Lit

73) Wishbone Words

74) Words For Change

75) Zero Readers