So, you wrote a poem. Goodie! Time to collect those rejection letters—I mean, find the right home for your work. There is no doubt though—rejection or acceptance—waiting sucks. Well, no fear, no reloading submittable over-and-over, checking and rechecking your spam. These nineteen journals will let you know if they want your poem in a week or less.
Challenge: see how many you can submit to in a day and just binge on those letters.
1) Bending Genres (*note: No simultaneous submissions)
Open
Bending Genres
"We seek thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction pieces. Think Olympics on a case of Red Bull. Think October in April. Think Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey."
Response time
5 days
Payment
No
Twitter followers
3803
2) Bibliopunk (*note: Accepts work previously posted on social media and personal websites)
Open
Bibliopunk
"We are looking for great writing by great writers. Or ambitiously flawed writing by ambitiously flawed writers. Humble writing. Narcissistic writing. Modern writing. Old school writing. Transgressive writing. Moral writing."
Response time
3 days
Payment
No
Twitter followers
1
4) 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
1018
5) Ice Queen Magazine (*note: Pays $50)
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Ice Queen Magazine
"Ice Queen Magazine is a monthly-ish literary rpg journal that has monthly issues focusing on one writer. There is a poem/story, an interview, and a recipe. Currently, we are by nomination submission."
Response time
3 days
Payment
$50
Twitter followers
524
6) ONE ART: a journal of poetry (*note: Accept poems published on your personal blog or social media.)
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ONE ART: a journal of poetry
"ONE ART aims to publish poetry that adds value to the life of our readers. A poem must not only be good, it must be lasting. Ask yourself what poems you return to again and again. Those are the poems we want to share with the world."
Response time
1-5 days
Payment
No
Twitter followers
1705
9) Sour Cherry Mag
Open
Sour Cherry Mag
"An online literary diary that aims to give a platform to emerging and unpublished writers."
Response time
1 week
Payment
No
Twitter followers
-
10) Terror House Magazine
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Terror House Magazine
"Terror House Magazine is an independent literary magazine focused on nurturing and promoting the best up-and-coming writers of our generation."
Response time
1 week
Payment
No
Twitter followers
5301
12) Typishly (*note: charges a fee but comes with a nugget of feedback.)
Typishly
"Typishly has been called beautiful, stylish, visual, cool, gorgeous, wonderful, eclectic, vivid, stunning, challenging, smart, delightful… and sometimes weird."
Response time
24 hours
Payment
No
Twitter followers
1437