Here’s a few dozen literary journals that are accepting submissions over the summer
I love Duotrope. Don’t get me twisted, but sometimes I get a hankering for something to hold in my hands and look at while I’m watching Top Chef or The Office or MST3K or whatever. That’s when I bust out the good old Poet’s Market (used 2007’s at amazon for under $3!) and start flipping through it. I have the last 5. It’s definitely a nice tool to have, Writer’s Digest does a good job on them. I’ve read almost all of the articles in each one, and it’s definitely helped me find journals that seem likely to be more sympathetic to my type of poetry. Of course, there are other all prose journals, and probably at least another dozen or two magazines that accept submissions over the summer, but many don’t. So here’s a bunch of good ones (and some links to help you along), (e)= accepts email submissions and NoSS= doesn’t accept simultaneous submissions.
A-C
ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Apalachee Review, Arable (e), Artful Dodge, Asheville Poetry Review, Backwards City Review (e), Baltimore Review, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal NoSS, Bitter Oleander NoSS(not in July), Black Warrior Review, Burnside Review (e), California Quarterly (CA residents only), Carolina Quarterly NoSS, Chaffin Journal (Only accepts during summer), Chattahoochee Review NoSS, Chautauqua Literary Review, Christian Science Monitor (keep in mind their positive sensibilities), Cimarron Review, Coal City Review NoSS, Common Ground Review NoSS, Connecticut Review, Cottonwood Review NoSS, Crab Creek Review, Cranky (e), Crazyhorse
D-L
Diner, Edgz, Epicenter, 5AM NoSS, Gargoyle Magazine (e), Good Foot, Hanging Loose NoSS, Harpur Palate, Hazmat Review NoSS, Hiram Poetry Review, Hudson Review NoSS, Indiana Review, The Journal, Lake Effect, The Ledge, Louisville Review, Lungfull! Magazine
M-P
Main St. Rag, Manoa, Margie, Massachusetts Review NoSS, Michigan Quarterly Review NoSS, Midwest Quarterly, Miller’s Pond, Mudfish, Nerve Cowboy, The New Criterion, New Letters NoSS, New Zoo Poetry Review, Nexus, Nimrod, North American Review NoSS, North Dakota Quarterly NoSS, Northwest Review NoSS, One Trick Pony NoSS, Pacific Coast Journal, Pebble Lake Review, Pennsylvania English, Pikeville Review NoSS, Pleiades, Poet Lore, Poetry NoSS, Portland Review
Q-Z
Quercus Review NoSS, Rainbow Curve, Raintown Review, Redgreene Review, Redivider, River Styx, Roanoke Review, Sewanee Review NoSS, Slipstream, Smartish Pace, Southeast Review, Southern Humanities Review NoSS, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review NoSS, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Spillway, Spinning Jenny (e) NoSS, The Sun NoSS, Texas Poetry Journal (e), Third Coast, Threepenny Review NoSS, Timber Creek Review (short poems only), Verse, Virginia Quarterly Review NoSS, Westview, Whiskey Island.