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
Open
96th of October
"Quarterly online literary journal featuring TALES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY."
Response time
fast
Payment
No
Twitter followers
-
2) Alebrijes Review
Alebrijes Review
"The Latin@ literary magazine for colorful, whimsical, monstrous art."
Response time
6 months
Payment
No
Twitter followers
2129
6) Atlantis Creative Magazine
Atlantis Creative Magazine
"Atlantis is a student-run publication. We publish North Carolina students."
Response time
3 months
Payment
No
Twitter followers
341
9) Blue Lake Review (*note: We will consider work which has been previously published at least a year before in another publication. )
Open
Blue Lake Review
"Our goal is to bring compelling, meaningful, insightful fiction and poetry to you on a regular basis. Something you can ponder and gnaw on. Something to bring light, or at least, growth and understanding to our readers."
Response time
?
Payment
No
Twitter followers
-
10) Bulb Culture Collective (*note: focus on previously published works that have lost their original home with journals that have gone dark.)
Open
Bulb Culture Collective
"We are a new literary journal with a focus on previously published works that have lost their original home with journals that have gone dark."
Response time
?
Payment
No
Twitter followers
536
12) COOP: chickens of our poetry (*note: Accept work previously published on personal blogs, social media, or forums)
Open
COOP: chickens of our poetry
"A poetry and art zine dedicated entirely to celebrating the noble chicken. Chickens give you permission to be imperfect. They tell you to give the inner-editor a break and get those weird, not-yet-clearly-formulated ideas out on paper."
Response time
3 months
Payment
No
Twitter followers
147
18) Filter Coffee Zine
Filter Coffee Zine
"a home for your unspoken words, unheard thoughts and untamed dreams"
Response time
1 week
Payment
No
Twitter followers
2226
20) FRiGG: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry
Open
FRiGG: A Magazine of Fiction and Poetry
"A twice-yearly online magazine that features fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction."
Response time
2 weeks – 3 months
Payment
No
Twitter followers
2489
21) Front Porch Review
Open
Front Porch Review
"We publish thoughtful, provocative fiction, poetry, essays and visual arts."
Response time
1 month
Payment
No
Twitter followers
-
23) The Gorko Gazette
Open
The Gorko Gazette
"The Gorko Gazette publishes fake news headlines, one-panel cartoons, fake movie reviews, poetry, and other things."
Response time
1-3 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
793
24) Green Splotches (defunct since Feb 2023)
Green Splotches (defunct since Feb 2023)
"Green Splotches is a poetry webzine created to promote the writing and publication of speculative poetry. We are looking to uplift new voices and publish works by established artists. We are especially interested in the work of traditionally marginalized creators."
Response time
2 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
-
33) Kaleidoscope Magazine
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Kaleidoscope Magazine
"Kaleidoscope Magazine creatively focuses on the experiences of disability through literature and the fine arts. "
Response time
?
Payment
$10 to $100
Twitter followers
-
34) Koening Zine
Open
Koening Zine
"a zine by asian creatives celebrating asian voices"
Response time
2 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
969
42) Overheard (*note: Only self-published (collection, blog, etc))
Open
Overheard
"Online lit mag with a yearly print anthology Subs open year-round✨"
Response time
2 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
4400
45) the Poet Heroic (podcast)
Open
the Poet Heroic (podcast)
"A monthly podcast of poetry, curated by poet and composer Timothy Arliss OBrien."
Response time
?
Payment
No
Twitter followers
54
46) Poetry Online (poetry.onl)
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Poetry Online (poetry.onl)
"A publisher and weekly journal committed to sharing accessible work and compensating our contributors fairly."
Response time
1-30 days
Payment
$60/piece
Twitter followers
2315
47) Poetry Super Highway (*note: Accept work previously published only in print)
Open
Poetry Super Highway
"Exposing as many people to as many other people's poetry as possible."
Response time
2 months
Payment
No
Twitter followers
398
54) Sixpence Society Literary Journal
Sixpence Society Literary Journal
"A place for all creatives! If our theme relates to or inspires your work, we would love to share it!"
Response time
1 week after close
Payment
No
Twitter followers
950
59) Spiritus Mundi Review
Spiritus Mundi Review
"A youth-led, Latin-inspired magazine and blog that investigates human existence through several mediums: poetry, prose, and art."
Response time
?
Payment
No
Twitter followers
-
60) Spoonie Magazine (double) (defunct)
Spoonie Magazine (double) (defunct)
"Spoonie Press champions work for and by chronically ill, neurodivergent, and disabled individuals (affectionately called #spoonies). Spoonie Magazine is a weekly digital publication."
Response time
1 day-1 month
Payment
No
Twitter followers
2802
61) Stanza Cannon
Open
Stanza Cannon
"The first-of-its-kind, quarterly zine dedicated solely to spoken poetry"
Response time
1 month
Payment
No
Twitter followers
334
63) Suburban Witchcraft Magazine
Open
Suburban Witchcraft Magazine
"An Art & Literature quarterly zine"
Response time
1-2 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
1300
66) the tide rises, the tide falls
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the tide rises, the tide falls
"online litmag for #poetry based off of, inspired by, and mimicking henry wadsworth longfellow's "the tide rises, the tide falls""
Response time
2 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
2286
67) Travesties?! (*note: Also note that we are less likely to accept work still freely available online.)
Open
Travesties?!
"A corner of the internet that likes to be queerer, that licks its lips, wolfish and weird. A home for the historic and histrionic, operatic and obscene, learned and yearning. A b-movie bacchanal you might stumble into and stagger out of."
Response time
2-3 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
688
68) Tropico Line (*note: Accept work previously published on personal pages)
Tropico Line
"An online bilingual literary magazine based in Brazil and born from a desire to create a free space to contemporary literature. Idealized by editors and poets Adora Williams and Lavínia Vianini, we believe in potential as something to be explored."
Response time
1 week
Payment
No
Twitter followers
184
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)
Open
the voidspace
"We are looking for work the reader can interact with or influence in some way"
Response time
?
Payment
No
Twitter followers
4972
