Paying Markets for Poetry With No Submission Fees

Information about paying markets without submission fees that accept poetry submissions year round and on specific dates with links to sites.

“If people only read poetry, which you can never stop poets producing even when you pay them nothing at all, then the law of copyright would disappear in a trice.” — Tim Parks

A successful novelist can, with luck, make a sizable amount of money, as can a memoir writer (if he or she is fortunate to have lived through a psychotic break, multiple personalities, or had a family parent who was secretly in the mob which they only found out when said family member fled to some small island nation where there was no extradition, children in tow. A moderately talented painter can also do relatively well if a hotel chain or a bank discovers they like the artists seascapes, abstracts and local attractions or an entrepreneur with numerous buildings would like murals painted on all the outside walls. But few poets ever made a living from poetry.

In the past, they poets might be able to hope for a dinner invitation from some noblemen holed up in his castle with drunken guests…