Using a subjective methodology, I curate journals and presses I admire and compile schedules of when to send them work. I’ve decided to post my current “submission calendar” for 2021 in this space in case it’s helpful to anyone else. This list is exclusively for general submissions of poetry, and I plan to update it every few months.
JANUARY
Beloit Poetry Journal: 1/1—2/28; 6/1—8/31
Copper Nickel: 1/1—3/1; 9/1—12/15
Five Points: 1/1—4/30; 8/1—12/31
Michigan Quarterly Review: 1/1—4/1; 8/1—11/30
Nashville Review: January; May; September
Nimrod: 1/1—11/30
Notre Dame Review: 1/1—3/31; 9/1—11/30
Poetry Northwest: 1/1—3/1; 10/1— 12/1
Quarterly West: 1/1—4/1; 9/1—11/1
Salt Hill: 1/1—2/15; 7/15—9/1
The Adroit Journal: 1/1—?
The Maine Review: 1/1—3/31; 5/1—7/31; 9/1—11/30
Threepenny Review: 1/1—6/31
Triquarterly: 1/1—3/31
New Ohio Review: 1/15—4/15; 9/15—12/15
The Rumpus: 1/15—1/31; 7/15—7/31
Asheville Review: 1/15—7/15
Electric Lit: 1/18—1/24
Ecotone: 1/26—2/2
FEBRUARY
Baltimore Review: 2/1—5/31; 9/1—11/1
Paris Review: February; September
Plume: 2/1—3/31; 9/1—11/1
Seneca Review: 2/1—3/15; 9/1—10/15
Shenandoah: 2/1—2/15
Iron Horse: 2/15—4/1
MARCH
New England Review: 3/1—?
The Collagist: 3/1—7/31; 10/1—1/31
The Common: 3/1—6/1; 9/1—12/1
The Hunger: 3/1—5/1; 11/1—1/1
The Rupture: 3/1—7/31; 10/1—1/31
TIMBER: 3/1—5/1; 9/1—12/1
MAY
Parentheses (Canada): 5/1—9/10; 11/1—3/10
The Boiler: 5/15—8/15; 11/15—2/15
Grist: 5/15—8/15
JUNE
Muzzle Magazine: 6/1—?
Pleiades: 6/1—7/1; 12/1—1/1
Ploughshares: 6/1—1/15
JULY
Bat City: 7/1—10/1
Memorious: 7/1—7/31
The Arkansas International: 7/1—5/1
Virginia Quarterly Review: 7/31—1/31
AUGUST
Arts & Letters: 8/1—1/31
Bitter Oleander: 8/1—7/1
Colorado Review: 8/1—4/30
Washington Sq. Review: 8/1—10/15; 12/15—2/1
Waxwing: 8/1—4/30
West Branch: 8/1—4/1
Georgia Review: 8/16—5/14
SEPTEMBER
Agni: 9/1—5/31
Bayou Magazine: 9/1—5/1
Birmingham Poetry Review: 9/1—5/15
Cincinnati Review: 9/1—1/1
Crazyhorse: 9/1—5/31
Fugue: 9/1—5/1
Gettysburg Review: 9/1—5/31
Gulf Coast: 9/1—3/1
Iowa Review: 9/1—11/31
New South: 9/1—3/31
Ninth Letter: September; October; January; February
Passages North: 9/1—4/15
Prairie Schooner: 9/1—5/1
Sycamore Review: 9/1—3/31
Portland Review: 9/14—10/31
Denver Quarterly: 9/15—/15
Salmagundi: 9/15—?
Bellingham Review: 9/15—12/1
Kenyon Review: 9/15—10/1
OCTOBER
december magazine: 10/1—5/1
Hopkins Review: 10/1—11/1
Salamander: 10/1—4/1
Slice: 10/1—12/1
Alaska Quarterly Review: 10/5—5/25
Southern Humanities Review: 10/14—10/21
NOVEMBER
Bennington Review: 11/1—5/8
Boulevard Magazine: 11/1—5/1
Conjunctions: 11/23—12/15
DECEMBER
Black Warrior Review: 12/1—3/31; 6/1—9/1
Greensboro Review: 12/15—2/15
YEAR ROUND
32 Poems
American Poetry Review
Blue Earth Review
Carolina Quarterly
Guernica
New Orleans Review
Pacifica (closes in September, January, and May)
PANK
Pidgeonholes (opens 1st to 10th of each month)
Potomac Review
Prelude
PRISM international (Canada)
Redivider
The Baffler
The Pinch
The Sewanee Review (except summer)
The Sun
Thrush
Under a Warm Green Linden
Western Humanities Review
NO INFO / ON HIATUS
BOAAT
Chattahoochee Review
Cortland Review
Fairytale Review
Harvard Review
Hayden’s Ferry Review
Hobart
Indiana Review
Orion Magazine
Paper Darts
POETRY
Subtropics
Tahoma Literary Review
The Believer
Tinderbox
DISCLAIMER
None of this information was compiled with direct input from these outlets—it’s just from their submission pages. If your organization is mentioned here and you would like it removed for any reason, please let me know.