Ballast Journal
Open now for nonfiction and poetry.
Last checkedBallast Journal is an online quarterly publishing poetry and related critical or lyric-essay work.
Response time info: within three months, often much sooner
Read the full guidelines at ballastjournal.com↗Submission calls
Always open and free. Ballast welcomes book reviews and critical essays engaged in academic inquiry, explication, or critique, or that operate as lyric essays in their own right.
Always open and free. Submit three to five poems in one document, with each poem beginning on a new page; maximum 15 pages. Ballast welcomes long, concrete, verbivisual, translated, co-authored, and formally adventurous poetry, and does not consider racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or generative-AI-assisted work.
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