This calendar shows the opening dates of reading periods for journals and prizes. Unless otherwise noted, each journal listed accepts simultaneous and electronic submissions. A list of journals with year-round reading periods can be found below the calendar.
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The following journals accept submissions year-round:
3 Elements Review (free)
8 Poems (free)
Abstract Magazine (free)
Across the Margin (free)
Acumen (Free) (UK)
Adelaide (free) (no simultaneous)
After the Pause (free) defunct, final issue (spring 2022) available to read
Alluvian (free)
Always Crashing (free)
A-Minor (free)
The American Poetry Review ($3)
The Apple Valley Review (free)
Arcturus (free)
Arkana (free)
Atrium (free) (UK) occasionally closed, no set submission window
Auroras & Blossoms Creative Arts Journal ($1)
Awakenings (free)
Azure (free)
Backchannels Journal (free) (occasionally closed)
Baest; a journal of queer forms & affects (free)
The Baffler (free)
The Bangalore Review ($3)
Barnstorm (free) (subs open until monthly cap reached)
Barren Magazine (free)
Bear Review ($3)
Bending Genres (free) (no simultaneous submissions)
Better Than Starbucks (free)
Birmingham Arts Journal (free)
Blanket Sea (free) (occasionally closed)
Blue Earth Review (free)
Blue Lake Review (free)
Body (free)
Boston Accent (free)
Boston Literary Magazine (free) (occasionally closed)
Briar Cliff Review ($3)
Broadsided Press ($3)
The Café Review (post only)
Cagibi ($3)
Calamity (free)
Califragile (free)
The Cape Rock (free) (occasionally closed)
The Carolina Quarterly ($2.50)
Carve Magazine ($3)
Charge Magazine (free)
Chestnut Review (free for poetry, flash, and photography, $5 for fiction)
Chrysanthemum (free)
Cimarron Review (free)
Citron Review (free)
Clarion ($3)
Cleaver Magazine (free)
Clementine Unbound (free) (no simultaneous)
Cloudbank ($3)
The Coachella Review (free)
Coal Hill Review ($3)
Cobalt Review (free)
Collateral Journal (free)
The Collidescope (free)
Concho River Review ($3)
Conduit ($3)
Confingo (free) (UK)
Confluence (free) (UK) (occasionally closed)
Constellate Literary Journal (free) (UK)
The Continental Review (free) (video poetry)
The Copperfield Review (free)
Cosmonauts Avenue (free)
Dark Matter: Women Witnessing (free)
The Dear Poets Society (free)
Deluge Journal (free) (occasionally closed for 1 month periods)
Diagram (free)
Dialogist (free)
Diode (free)
Dodging the Rain (free)
Dream Pop (press and journal) (free)
Dying Dahlia Review (free) (Women writers) (occasionally closed)
Empty Mirror (free)
Everything in Aspic (free)
Figure 1 (free)
Fjords Review ($5)
Folder (free) (open for the second half of each month)
Foundry (free) (on hiatus)
Glass: A Journal of Poetry (free)
Gris Gris ($2)
Hanging Loose Press (post only)
Hubbub (post only) (no simultaneous)
Identity Theory (free)
The Indianapolis Review (free)
Indicia (free)
J Journal (free)
Jarfly (free)
Jersey Devil Press (free)
JMWW (free)
Josephine Quarterly (free)
The Journal (free)
Juxtaprose ($3)
Kahini Magazine (free)
Kartika Review (free) (appears to be defunct)
Kestrel (free)
Kissing Dynamite (free) (open for the first week of each month)
The Lake (free)
Lake Effect (free)
Lascaux Review (free)
Little River Lit Mag (free)
Louisiana Literature (free)
Main Street Rag ($2.50 – $3.50)
Make Literary Magazine (free)
The Malahat Reiew (free)
Mantra Review (free)
The Manhattan Review (post only)
Matter Monthly (free) (on hiatus)
Maudlin House Review (free)
The Missouri Review ($3.50)
Mizna (free) (occasionally closed)
Moko Magazine (free)
Moon City Review (free)
Mortar Magazine (free)
Nerve Cowboy (post only)
The New Verse News (free) (no simultaneous)
Night Music Journal (free)
October Hill Magazine (free)
The Oddville Press (free)
The Offbeat (free)
The Offing (free)
The Ofi Press Magazine (free) (no simultaneous)
One (free)
Open Arts Forum (free)
The Opiate (free)
Outcast Magazine (free)
Oxford American (free)
Oxidant | Engine (free)
Pacifica Literary Review (free)
Packingtown Review (free)
Palette Poetry (free)
Palooka ($2.50)
The Pangolin Review (free)
Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel (free)
The Paris American (free)
The Paris Review (post only)
Pattern Recognition (free)
Peeking Cat Poetry (free)
Pidgeonholes (free)
The Pinch ($3)
Pithead Chapel (free)
POETRY (free)
The Poetry Review (UK)
Poetry South (free)
Poetry Superhighway (free)
Poets Reading the News (free)
Pouch (free)
Pretty Owl Poetry (free) (on hiatus)
Prism ($3)
The Puritan (free)
Quail Bell (free)
Queen Mob’s Teahouse (free)
Rabid Oak (free)
Raritan Quarterly (post only)
Redactions: Poetry and Poetics (free)
Redivider ($3)
Rumble Fish Quarterly (free)
The Rumpus (free)
Rust + Moth (free)
The Saint Ann’s Review (free) (on hiatus)
Sakura Review (free)
The Seattle Star (free)
Seems (free)
Sequestrum ($6.35)
Sick Lit Magazine (free) (no simultaneous) (accepts reprints)
Sincerely Magazine (free)
Sixth Finch (free)
Sky Island Journal ($4)
Slush Pile Magazine ($3) (occasionally closed)
Small Print Magazine (free)
Smartish Pace (free)
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine (free)
So to Speak (free)
Southeast Review ($3)
Southern Poetry Review (free)
South Florida Poetry Journal (free)
Southwestern American Literature (free)
Sow’s Ear Poetry Magazine (free)
Spadina Literary Review (free)
Split Lip (free every other month)
Spry Literary Journal (free)
Stand Magazine (post only) (no simultaneous)
Star 82 Review (free)
Stepaway Magazine (free)
Street Light Press (free)
Stirring (free)
Storm Cellar (free)
Subterranean Blue Poetry ($1 per poem)
The Summerset Review (free)
The Sun (free)
Survision Magazine (free)
Susan/The Journal (free)
Sweet Tree Review (free)
Tipton Poetry Review (free)
That Literary Magazine (free)
Thrush (free)
Transition Magazine (free)
The Tusculum Review (post only, unless living outside of US)
Two Cities ($3)
Unbroken (free)
Under a Warm Green Linden (free)
Vallum ($3)
Valparaiso Poetry Review (free)
A Velvet Giant (free)
Verdad (free)
Visions International (free)
Visitant (free)
Vista Brevis (free)
VOX poetica (free)
West Texas Literary Review ($3)
Whitefish Review ($5)
Wilderness House Literary Review (free)
Wildness (free)
Wink (free) (no simultaneous) (reprints accepted)
Winter Tangerine (free) (on hiatus)
WomenArts Quarterly Journal (free)
Word for / Word (free)
Wordgathering (free)
Words Without Borders (free) (translations only)
Yale Review ($?) (occasionally closed)
Yalobusha Review (free)
Yemasse Journal ($3) (no longer year-round, unknown reading period)
Yes, Poetry (free)
Your Impossible Voice (free)
Derek Annis 