Get paid to write poetry

PAID TO WRITE POETRY

• VQR Online: Pays $200 -strives to publish the best writing we can find. While we have a long history of publishing accomplished and award-winning authors, we also seek and support emerging writers.

Submission Guidelines:( site excerpt)

We only consider unpublished work. Please do not submit previously published material, including work published in anthologies, chapbooks, or online.

We only accept submissions online via Submittable. We do not accept submissions via e-mail or post.

Please read past issues of VQR before submitting your work so you have a clear sense of our editorial focus. A portion of every issue is freely available on the site.

Submissions are limited to one prose piece and four poems per reading period. Please group poetry into one submission. Multiple submissions in the same genre will be returned unread. 

Simultaneous submissions are permitted.

If work you have submitted to us is accepted elsewhere, please notify us immediately. For prose submissions, please use your Submittable account to withdraw your submission. For poetry submissions, please use your Submittable account to add a note to your submission listing the titles of works no longer available .

• Three Penny Review: $200

 Submission Guidelines:( site excerpt) Currently not accepting any work until their "reading" period which starts January 1,2018
3. All online submissions must consist of a single document in Word format (.doc or .docx). If you are submitting prose, the document should consist of a single article or a single story. If you are submitting poetry, please group your poems into one document containing no more than five poems, because the online system will not accept more than a single document from each person. Please include your name and address somewhere on the document as well as in our submission form.
4. We do not print material that has previously been published elsewhere, and we emphatically do not consider simultaneous submissions. We do our best to offer a quick turnaround time, so please allow us the privilege of sole consideration during that relatively brief period; writers who do not honor this request will not be published in the magazine.
5. Response time for submissions can range from two days to two months. Please do not submit more than a single story or article, or more than five poems, until you have heard back from us about your previous submission. If you have not heard from us within a couple of months, you should assume that either your communication or ours has gone astray.
6. We strongly recommend that you stay within our length limits. Poetry 100 lines or less.We prefer to read prose submissions that are double-spaced; poetry can be single-spaced or double-spaced.
7. Emailed submissions will be discarded unread. The only two ways to submit work to us are through the mail and via our online system.
**There is a format your must follow that they have explained on the submissions page of the site. It is strongly recommended you take a look before submitting**

•  Boulevard Magazine: Pays $25 to $250 -strives to publish only the finest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. While we frequently publish writers with previous credits, we are very interested in less experienced or unpublished writers with exceptional promise

 Submission Guidelines:( site excerpt)Accepting submissions from October 1 to May 1

• Submit online through Submittable (link below). No email submissions will be read.
• Include author's name and contact information on all submissions. 
• We allow simultaneous submissions, but please immediately withdraw work that has been accepted elsewhere. 
• We accept multiple submissions but wait at least a month between entries.
• Work submitted must be previously unpublished, print and online.
• Authors retain rights to their work from the time of publication in Boulevard.
• Please no handwritten submissions.
• Cover letters with previous credits are not required. 
• We accept international subscriptions, for both the general submissions and the contests.
• Submissions must be in English.
• Our average response time is four months. Please do not query before then.
• Send only complete, fully proofread work. We will not consider revisions--this is too difficult administratively for our small staff.
• For response include a SASE.
• There is a $3 fee to submit online. There is no fee to submit by post.

• Dreams and Nightmares: Pays $10 - a print magazine of science fiction and fantasy poetry

           Submission Guidelines:( site excerpt)The genres of fantasy and SF are preferred. I am interested in experimental formats and content, and prefer fantastic horror a la Lovecraft or Blackwood to the blood and gore type. Any SF or fantasy is appropriate if it isn't sappy or trite. If your poem rhymes, be sure that the rhymes are not forced, and that the meter is consistent.

• Grain Literary Magazine: Pays $40 to $70- the journal of eclectic writing, is a literary quarterly that publishes engaging, diverse, and challenging writing and art.

Submission Guidelines:(site excerpt)

Please adhere to the following guidelines and do not submit more than twice in one submissions period (third and subsequent submissions will neither be read nor returned). If you have work currently under consideration by Grain, please do not submit again until you have received a response to that submission. Grain has a nine-month submissions period which runs from September 1st to May 31st. Manuscripts received between June 1 and August 31 will be automatically rejected.Send typed, unpublished material only (we consider work published on-line to be previously published). Simultaneous submissions will not be considered. Please only submit work in one genre at one time.
Poetry: Individual poems, sequences, or suites up to a maximum of six pages.

• Antigonish Review: Pays $30 - quarterly literary journal published by St. Francis Xavier University

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)

1. TAR is open to poetry on any subject written from any point of view and in any form. However, writers should expect their work to be considered within the full context of old and new poetry in English and other languages.
2. The amount of space TAR can devote to any one writer is usually limited to 5-6 pages at a maximum.
3. No more than 6-8 poems should be submitted at any one time. A preferable submission would be from 3-4 poems. Submitting more than 8 tends to conceal the merits of individual poems. The poet should also know, fairly clearly, what is or is not good work and send only that.
4. Poets should wait for response to a submission before submitting again.
PLEASE NOTE we do not accept submissions which have been previously published in any format.

• The Pedestal Magazine: Pays $40 - All things literary

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)-For the December 2017 issue (Pedestal 81), editors will be accepting submissions of poetry. No restrictions on theme, style, length, or genre. Please submit up to five (5) poems and include all work in a single file. Open for submissions November 6 – December 3 (2017).

• Arc Poetry Magazine: Pays $50 per page- feature poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike, and prose that offers new perspectives on the verse you thought you knew.

Submission Guidelines (site excerpt)
Arc accepts unso­licited sub­mis­sions of pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poems, on any sub­ject, in any form.

Poets may only submit once each calendar year.

Poetry submissions must not exceed 3 poems total.

Submissions must be typed and sin­gle spaced (dou­ble spaces will be inter­preted as blank lines). Include your name, email address, and mailing address on each page.

Submit each poem in a sep­a­rate document along with the poet’s biog­ra­phy. Your submission will be grouped together in our submission platform.

Biographical statements should be two to three sentences or approximately 50 words.

Arc will respond to unso­licited sub­mis­sions of poetry, art­work, and arti­cle queries within four to six months. Arc can’t promise to respond to inquiries regard­ing the sta­tus of sub­mis­sions before the com­ple­tion of an editorial cycle.

• The Capilano Review: Pays $50 to $150 - publishes art, poetry, and criticism that inhabit and reflect our challenging times, resist convention and excite response

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)

We only accept submissions through Submittable during our open submission windows.

Please make only one submission per upcoming issue.

For poetry, send up to 5 pages, for reviews, a maximum of 600 words

• Chicken Soup for the Soul: Pays $200 -Chicken Soup for the Soul, the world’s favorite and most recognized storyteller, publishes the famous Chicken Soup for the Soul book series.

Guidelines for a Chicken Soup for the Soul poem (site excerpt)
1. We love poems that tell a story. A Chicken Soup for the Soul poem does the same job as a story. The reader goes away having learned your story, just through poetry instead of prose.
2. We do not publish poems that do not tell a story.
3. We also do not publish poems that seem overly focused on rhyming and read more like greeting cards.

• Orion Magazine: Pays $100 -The editorial impulse of Orion lies at the nexus of ecology and the human experience. The magazine distinguishes itself from the din of common culture through its depth of inquiry, commitment to interdisciplinary thought, and an emphasis on insight and imagination alongside a big-picture approach to problem-solving. Orion considers unsolicited poems that offer fresh insight into the intersection of nature, culture, and place.

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)Poetry submissions are currently closed


Orion accepts submissions during designated submission windows only. We can consider only one submission per person, per submission window—additional submissions will not be accepted. Simultaneous submissions to other publications are acceptable, so long as they are labeled as such, and we ask that you notify us if your submission needs to be withdrawn from consideration at Orion


Please submit 1-3 poems (max. 40 lines/each) in 12 pt. font, single spaced. We encourage you to keep your cover letter brief, but ask that you include the title(s) of your submission as well as your contact information (including full name and e-mail address).We do our best to respond to submissions within three months, but, in some cases, the wait may be longer

•  Ploughshares: Pays $45 to $450 - published by Emerson College in Boston

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt) accept submissions to the journal from June 1, to January 15, at noon EST
We do not consider multiple submissions, so please send only one manuscript at a time, either by mail or online. Do not send a second submission until you have heard about the first.
 We encourage you to include a short cover letter with your submission. It should reference:

• Major publications and awards
• Any association or past correspondence with a guest or staff editor
• Past publication in Ploughshares

• Rattle: Pays $50 for online submissions – $100 for print submissions-  publishes unsolicited poetry and translations of poetry.

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)Submissions are open year-round, always welcomed, and always free
Rattle does not accept work that has been previously published, in print or online (we do consider self-publishing to blogs, message boards, or Facebook as publication if it can be viewed publicly without login).
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If the work is accepted elsewhere, just add a note through Submittable, or, if you submitted in hard copy, call or email to let us know.

• The Sun Magazine: Pays $100 to $200 - Quote from the editor as to what she is looking for:

“I’m looking for a writer who doesn’t know where her sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love; a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones with the power to condemn in the blink of an eye. It’s all right that she doesn’t know what she’s thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she’s arrived.”

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)
Surprise us; we often don’t know what we’ll like until we read it.
We rarely run anything longer than seven thousand words; there’s no minimum length.
We discourage simultaneous submissions.

• Poetry Foundation: Pays $150 -We examine all work received and accept that which seems best. We consider original works written in the English language as well as translations of poetry into English.

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)
We accept submissions year round. We ask that you do not make multiple submissions: please wait for a response to your submission before sending new work.
We will do our best to respond within seven months from the day of receipt, but are sometimes slower in responding. Please be patient! It is our goal to make sure each submission gets a good read. Adhering to our single submission of four poems or fewer at a time will help insure a timely response to your work.
Please ensure that you set your e-mail spam filter to allow mail from both poetryfoundation.org and poetrymagazine.org; otherwise notification regarding your submission may be marked as junk mail.

• Crazy Horse: Pays $20 to $200- welcomes general submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from September 1st through May 31st, with the exception of the month of January, during which we only accept entries for the Crazyhorse Prizes, and the month of July, during which we only accept entries for Crazyshorts!, our annual short-short fiction contest 

Submission Guidelines(site excerpt)
For poetry, please submit a set of 3-5 poems.

Crazyhorse aims to publish work that reflects the multiple poetries of the twenty-first century. While our taste represents a wide range of aesthetics, from poets at all stages of their writing careers, we read with a discerning eye for poems that demonstrate a rhetorical and formal intelligence—that is, poems that know why they are written in the manner that they are. We seek poems that exhibit how content works symbiotically with form, evidenced in an intentional art of the poetic line or in poems that employ or stretch lyric modes. Along with this, poems that capture our attention enact the lyric utterance through musical textures, tone of voice, vivid language, reticence, and skillful syntax. For us, overall, the best poems do not idly tell the reader how to feel or think, they engender feeling and thought in the reader.

We are happy to accept simultaneous submissions of poetry. Should any of the poems in your submission be accepted elsewhere while under consideration with Crazyhorse, please add a note to your submission to alert us that they are no longer available.