Poetry Submission Opportunities - February 2025
Antler Velvet
- Link: Submit Here
- Theme: Issue 4 - Spirals (see @antlervelvetmag for prompts & inspiration)
- Submit: Up to 5 poems
- Deadline: February 15
- Entry Fee: No fee
Wildscape Literary Journal
- Link: Submit Here
- Description: “Our goal is to blend whimsy with chaos, ethereal with truth, gentle with wild. We want to make you feel.”
- Submit: Up to 5 poems
- Deadline: February 15
- Entry Fee: No fee (or $5 for expedited response)
Free the Verse
- Link: Submit Here
- Issue: 13 - Theme: “Here again”
- Submit: 1 poem
- Deadline: February 25
- Entry Fee: No fee
Exist Otherwise
- Link: Submit Here
- Issue: 14 - Theme: We Are Not Going Back!
- Submit: Up to 1,000 words (up to 3 pieces if total is under 500, 1 piece if between 500-1,000)
- Payment: $15 per published poem
- Deadline: February 28
- Entry Fee: No fee
Just Buffalo Literary Center Poetry Fellowship
- Link: Apply Here
- Judge: 2025 Judge - Donika Kelly
- Includes: $2,000 stipend, free lodging for August, opportunity to read at Silo City Reading Series
- Submit: Cover letter with biographical statement, CV, and up to 10 pages of poetry
- Deadline: February 28
- Entry Fee: $25 application fee
Spoon River Poetry Review
- Link: Submit Here
- Submit: Up to 5 poems
- Payment: Contributor copy + 1-year subscription
- Deadline: February 28
- Entry Fee: No fee
Vulpecula Poetica
- Link: Submit Here
- Issue: 1 - Theme: Memory
- Payment: Digital contributor copy
- Deadline: February 28
- Entry Fee: No fee
Yellow Arrow Journal
- Link: Submit Here
- Note: For women-identifying artists and authors
- Theme: Unfurl
- Submit: Up to 2 poems
- Payment: $10 + digital contributor copy
- Deadline: February 28
- Entry Fee: No fee
The Woodward Review
- Link: Submit Here
- Submit: Up to 5 poems
- Payment: $50
- Deadline: March 1
- Entry Fee: No fee
Brawl Magazine
- Link: Submit Here
- Note: Be sure to read their guidelines in full, as they do things a bit differently
- Submit: Up to 3 poems
- Deadline: Always open
- Entry Fee: No fee (or $5 for expedited response/feedback)