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.'
2) The Bitchin’ Kitsch
Jun 15
The Bitchin’ Kitsch
"A quarterly art and lit, online and printed magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all"
Response time
2 weeks
Payment
Yes
Twitter followers
8727
4) 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
88
9) 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
11) 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
1-4 weeks
Payment
No
Twitter followers
582
20) 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
3914
23) 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
26
24) 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
388
31) 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
182
34) 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
589
36) 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
3201
