September 15th, 2025
Wax Poetry and Art presents a network of contests and poetry magazines designed to capture excellent poems in the English language from everywhere on earth. Serious poets from all walks of life and every level of experience are invited to submit.
Wax Poetry and Art is the home of the Poetry World Cup. Save the Date: Poetry World Cup 2026 will happen on January 15th, 2026.
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Wax Poetry and Art is part of waxpoetryart.com – the website for people who love poetry, art, photography, fiction, and plays.
More Submission Opportunities on waxpoetryart.com:
Poetry:
Weekly Poems – A weekly poetry contest.
Haiku Imperium – Haiku.
Under 25 Poetry – Under 25 years of age.
Young Poets World – 18 and under.
SWAV Poetry – Spoken Word, Audio, and Video Poetry.
The Great Canadian Poetry Road Trip – For Canadians.
Visual Art: Kirk Ramdath presents Visual Art
Photography: Photographers from Earth
Fiction: Flash Fiction Takeover
Plays: The Short Play's the Thing
Scroll down to view all Wax Poetry and Art opportunities and an alphabetical list of publications.
New Publications:
Ireland Poetry Magazine
Northern Ireland Poetry Magazine
Scotland Poetry Magazine
Contests are listed first, then publications.
Legends of Shakespeare's Pen 2025/2026 – September 2025
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 May 15th, 2026. These contests close on January 14th, 2025.
Poetry Contest
Submissions are open to everyone.
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.
Coming soon: Flash Fiction Contest.
Geographical Grouping of Publications
Some publications accept submissions from everyone, while others have a regional or topical focus.
Use these geographically sorted lists to help narrow your search.
Scroll down the page to see the alphabetical 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.
Ireland Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Ireland.
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.
Northern Ireland Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Northern Ireland.
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.
Scotland Poetry Magazine
Accepts poetry submissions from everyone living in Scotland.
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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