May 15th, 2025
Wax Poetry and Art is an international network of poetry magazines. All poets, all styles.
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Scroll down to view all opportunities and an alphabetical list of publications.
Poetry World Cup Qualification
All single-poem submissions published in a Wax Poetry and Art publication qualify for the Poetry World Cup.
Read news about Poetry World Cup 2026 and view the inaugural Poetry World Cup 2025.
See your name in lights.
From May 15th, 2025 to May 14th, 2026, submissions will be considered for Poetry World Cup 2027.
Contests are listed first, then publications.
Wax Poetry and Art Magazine Contests
Enter the following contests to be included the issue of Wax Poetry and Art Magazine that will be published on January 15th, 2026. These contests close on September 14th, 2025.
Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
Featured Poet Contest
Submissions are open to everyone published in a Wax Poetry and Art publication since September 2021.
Socially Engaged Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
Under 25 Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to all persons under 25 years of age.
Haiku Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
Visual Art Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
Photography Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
New Contests
Spoken Word, Audio, and Video Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
More Submission Opportunities on waxpoetryart.com
Poetry: Haiku Imperium – Haiku.
Under 25 Poetry – Under 25 year of age.
Young Poets World – 18 and under.
SWAV Poetry – Spoken Word, Audio, and Video Poetry.
Visual Art: Kirk Ramdath presents Visual Art
Photography: Photographers from Earth
Fiction: Flash Fiction Takeover
Plays: The Short Play's the Thing
NEW: Also from Florencia Bay Books
Weekly Poems – The home of the weeklypoem.
Geographical Grouping of Publications
Some of the 30+ publications accept submissions from everyone, while others have a regional or topical focus.
Use these geographically sorted lists to help narrow your search.
Click the country or region where you reside to see opportunities for your area.
Scroll down the page to see the full list of publications.
Africa
Australia & New Zealand
Canada
China & Taiwan
Europe
India
South America & Caribbean
United States
International
Comet and Poetry World Results and Rankings
Having so many poetry publications led to a fun way of sorting published poems into two different collections,
Comet and Poetry World.
Click here to read more about Comet & Poetry World
and to see current results and rankings.
Publications in Alphabetical Order
Africa Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Africa.
Angela Poetry Magazine
Angela Poetry Magazine accepts poems that are curious, humorous, joyful, playful, and generally on the lighter side of life.
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone all over the world.
Atlantic Canada Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Australia Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Australia and other regions of Oceania except for New Zealand.
Persons from New Zealand may submit to New Zealand Poetry Magazine, see below.
Axil Poetry and Art
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone under 25 years of age.
Calgary Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Western Canada and the Territories.
This includes the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba and the Territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
California Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Western United States.
This includes the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Canada Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Canada.
Caribbean Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Chicago Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Midwestern United States.
This includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
China Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Dublin Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Edinburgh Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Scotland.
Edmonton Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in North and South America.
Eleventh Transmission Eleventh Transmission publishes socially engaged poetry. Submissions accepted from everyone living all over the world.
England Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in England.
Europe Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Europe.
First Nations Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Canadians; Native Americans;
and Indigenous people from around the world.
India Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in India.
London Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in a current or former Commonwealth nation.
Montreal Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from residents of Quebec and from bilingual and multilingual people living all over the world.
New Zealand Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in New Zealand and other regions in Oceania except for Australia.
Persons in Australia may submit to Australia Poetry Magazine, see above.
Nigeria Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Nigeria.
NYC Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Northeastern United States.
This includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Ottawa Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in a National Capital Region in any country in the world.
Protest Poems
Publishes poems that speak truth to power and inspire us to keep fighting for a better world
Submissions are open to everyone living all over the world.
San Francisco Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in California.
Shakespeare's Pen Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Bulgaria.
South Africa Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in South Africa.
Texas Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Southern United States.
This includes the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Toronto Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Eastern Canada.
This includes the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
United Kingdom Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the United Kingdom.
United States Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the United States of America.
Vancouver Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in the Pacific Northwest.
This includes Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in the United States, and British Columbia and the Yukon in Canada.
Vancouver Island Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone.
Wales Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Wales.
Wax International
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone.
Wax Poetry and Art Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone.
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