Deadlines: February & March 2026
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in February or March, including The Penn Review, Panorama, The Carolina Quarterly, and more.
DEADLINE: 2/16
Northwest Review was first published by the University of Oregon in 1957. In its fifty-four year history, the University of Oregon’s Northwest Review published multiple winners of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Submit 1-4 poems per submission, no more than 10 pages.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 2/16
Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature: Reflections
For Panorama‘s REFLECTIONS edition (to be published late March 2026), we ask authors to go further: to look at the large or small experiences that define our public and private selves, our moments of learning. Who are the characters that come in and out of our lives, and why? What journeys do we make through barriers and thresholds, where there can be no looking back, and what sticks with us – the residue of those moments that live on?
Amongst a world of streams, streams of posts, videos, likes, hates, hot takes, immediate takes, emails, phone calls, zooms, we jump to conclusions, assumptions, and prejudices to be first, to reinforce our versions of the world, or simply just to respond or feel something, anything. We invest in speculative ventures, assuming others to follow and profits to be made, irrespective of any underlying value.
To reflect today feels like a revolutionary act, and we encourage it all.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 2/28
At The Rialto, we continue to believe in the Republic of Poetry, and in the fundamental importance of poetry as the art form most likely to preserve humane values in our culture. We are always looking for new poets and new poems. You are very welcome to send your poems to be considered for publication.
- Please send no more than 6 poems at a time, in one document.
Reading fee: free
DEADLINE: 2/28
The Carolina Quarterly: Spring/Summer 2026
The Carolina Quarterly seeks out deliberate poetry: poetry that is carefully crafted, poetry that will age well, poetry that reminds and re-teaches us what a poem is. We’re always on the lookout for poems that eschew narrative, generate visceral responses, and find their grounding in the real world.
We publish established, emerging, and entry-level poets; we accept poems in all forms and we do our best to accommodate excerpts and translations. Whoever you are and whatever you write, we want to hear from you.
- Please submit up to 3 poems at a time.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 3/1
Camas: The Nature of the West seeks poetry for the Summer 2026 edition. The theme is Precarity: an exploration of the instability that threatens every aspect of our lives in this current moment and that – at the same time – has always underpinned life in the West.
We want to see your work that engages with all of this – with the joys and griefs and angers of living in this precarious moment, the realities of precarious lives, the history of our shared home in the West’s precarious foundations, and the precarity of our entire world. We look forward to hearing what you have to say, and to sharing stories that might guide us all towards the better world that we know is possible.
- You may submit up to 5 poems.
Reading Fee: $4
DEADLINE: 3/1
Sagebrush Review is the student-run literary and arts journal of The University of Texas at San Antonio. We publish a variety of creative work including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography annually in print and online. We aim to publish every voice, including those from marginalized communities or historically misrepresented backgrounds. We encourage everyone to submit to our journal, no matter your background, level of expertise, or job title. We’re drawn to descriptive imagery, sensory details, and lyrical sounds in free verse, blank verse, or traditional forms.
- Submit up to 3 poems (15-45 lines) in a single document.
- For visual/object poetry, we’re limited by WordPress constraints and our print journal uses 5.5″ x 8.5″ pages.
Reading fee: free
DEADLINE: 3/2
PRISM International: EARTHKEEPER Poetry Submissions
PRISM International invites submissions for its upcoming EARTHKEEPER issue. We invite you to think of your own positionality in relation to the corners of earth you live and die in. What does it mean to be the land’s “salt and its water”? What is your relationship to the land you are on? What brought you there and what could take you away? What land do you see as your kin? How do you honour the land in which you live? Do you take part in its resistance and protection? In which ways do you find yourself complicit in its destruction? If we are both the land’s wound, but also “a wound that fights,” how do you understand that duality? How do you, in individuality and collective, inhabit being both an earthkeeper… and a threat to our earth?
You might look forwards towards imagined futures of earthkeeping, their possibilities and impossibilities. You might draw on memory and the past as a touchstone for such futures. You might ground your present moment in the great continuity of the land and the people it nurtures. We highly encourage embodied writing about the land, lived experiences of Indigeneity in relation to land, and generational storytelling. Send us poetry, prose, or hybrid pieces that ground “earthkeeper” in the vividness of sensation, perception and reflection. Send us home.
- Submit up to 4 poems, to a maximum of six pages. Do NOT submit 6 one-page poems.
- We welcome cross-genre and interdisciplinary poetry and poetics.
Reading Fee: $3
DEADLINE: 3/15
The Stonecoast Review celebrates inclusive and ethical storytelling. The diversity of voices amplified here intend to represent all races, ethnicities, cultures, gender and sexual identities, and abilities. We seek and promote the work of emerging writers from underrepresented groups.
For poetry, the staff values attentiveness to language, form, and craft. We want poems that make us gasp and wonder and take us beyond ourselves. Send us your best work.
- One submission per author, per submission cycle, of up to 3 poems.
Reading Fee: free
DEADLINE: 3/16
The theme for issue #104 is guilt. Guilt can manifest in many ways: some from relatively benign actions, put upon us by society; others from “immoral” actions we regret. Either way, guilt is a heavy burden, so let the pages of subTerrain shoulder the load. Wrack your brain to remember those moments that have flooded you with guilt — and then put them on paper and send them to us!
- Poetry should be single-spaced with stanza breaks. (Max. 5 poems per issue)
Reading fee: $3
DEADLINE: 3/25
The Penn Review: Poetry
The Penn Review is the oldest continuously published and premier literary magazine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Devoted to the literary and visual arts, The Penn Review publishes original poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual artwork. We feature a blend of emerging and established voices in our biannual online publications and annual print publication. In our seven-decade history, we have published works by William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, e.e. cummings, and Jennifer Egan, among others.
- You can submit up to 5 poems.
- All submissions are read blind, so please remove names and any personal information.
Reading fee: free