Many publishers list submittable.com which lets you submit poetry through their website. Their website lets you track your submissions to publishers not listed on submittable.
Another great resource is duotrope.com which for a $5 monthly fee lets you research publications, keep track of submissions, and they have their own submission service called duosoma. Their submissions calendar is a useful feature in finding new anthology calls.
You can also find even more listings for anthologies and journals on:
- thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Search/ByFilter?poetry=true
- www.bylines.org
- www.pw.org/classifieds
- www.newpages.com/classifieds/calls-for-submissions
- www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/calls-for-submissions/
- http://www.chillsubs.com
- https://moksha.io/open-publications/
- https://duotrope.com/calendar/
- https://manager.submittable.com/opportunities/discover?page=1&search=&tags=anthology
- If that isn’t enough try searching “call for submissions” “poetry” or “call for submissions” or “anthology” on Google, or use Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn’s internal search engines with similar phrases. Using Facebook’s search tool limit the search to recent posts within the current year and use phrases like “send poems anthology” or “email poems anthology” or “submissions poetry anthology.” There are several groups within social media sites that list calls as well.
Poets Trish Hopkinson, Erica Verrillo, Cathy Bryant, and Erika Dreifus regularly list submission calls on their websites. Authors Publish, Write.Info, and Rick Lupert’s Poetry Super Highway are two other great resources. Deborah Fruchey’s Strictly East often re-publishes the calls we share on our mailing list.
Try to research the publisher before submitting. Are they listed on Poets & Writers? Do they have a website? Are the editors established authors? If in doubt Winning Writers has a great list of vanity publishers to avoid as does the Library of Congress.
Not all publishers will pay you to print your work nor give you a free print or digital copy, but avoid publishers who charge exorbitant reading fees, offer a certificate of inclusion, or demand you buy copies in lieu of paying you for your labor. There are plenty of opportunities out there, so numerous that you should not have to pay to get published.
Read the contract and don’t completely sign away your rights. Make sure the poem copyright reverts back to you after publication, so that you can include it in your own collection later.
Facebook Groups listing Publication Calls
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/2683641318572973
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/2068041726554759
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/860877037424122
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/685134431617626
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/156020074604805/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/35517751475/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfp.criterion.galaxy/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/submityourwork/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/58414389316/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1271611216242410/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/anthologysubmissions/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/643605400236835/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/NoFeeCallForSubmission/