hello everyone my name is adam shalimyan
and welcome back to my channel where we
talk about how you can make a living as
a writer writing about exactly what you
want a few days ago i made a video about
four websites that pay you hundred
dollars or more per article
and a few days later i also made a video
about how you can earn up to five
thousand us dollars for writing fiction
stories
uh i got a lot of requests in the
comments asking me for how you can make
money by writing poems online and this
video is exactly that
today we are going to discuss four
websites that pay you for writing poems
to them
if you are someone who loves writing
poems or if you know a person who is a
great poet but has never been
appreciated enough for their poetry then
this video is just for you make sure you
watch until the end because i'm also
going to share some tips on how you can
get accepted into these poetry
publications worldwide so without
further ado let's get started the first
magazine that pays you is called the
poetry foundation magazine it's
completely free to submit and you can
submit one poem at the time the wait
time here is eight months so if you
submit a poem today you have to wait
until eight months to receive either an
acceptance or a rejection i know this is
really hard work to wait for eight
months but they pay you quite well for
every accepted poem they publish they
are going to pay you 10 us dollars per
line of the poem with a minimum of 300
us dollars per published poem of course
they only accept previously unpublished
works and their submission guidelines is
very strict about work that has even
appeared as social media captions or
anywhere else on your personal blog is
not eligible to be considered they only
accept poems that have never been
published anywhere on the internet
interesting part about the poetry
foundation magazine is that you can also
submit audio poems and video poems as
well also the same poem can be published
in multiple formats as well they pay 300
dollars as a fixed rate for all video
and all audio poems and if your poem is
published in multiple formats they're
going to pay you 150 dollars for each
format the poem is published in since
it's free to submit i think every person
who loves writing poems should
definitely consider submitting to the
poetry foundation magazine all
submissions need to be made via their
submissions page which is linked right
in the description of this video the
next magazine that pays you for your
poems is agni agni has two submission
windows the first is from september 1st
to 15th of december of every year in
case you missed this window by for any
reason their second submission window
opens from february 15 and goes on until
may 31st of the same year so if you miss
this window this time you can always
submit it another time on the next
window agni pays you 40 us dollars per
printed page of the poem with a maximum
of 300 dollars for each poem aside from
that they also give you one year free
subscription to their magazine and if
your poem appears in the printed version
of the magazine they also send you six
free copies of the magazine so you can
distribute it to your friends and family
agni also accepts prose fiction and
creative non-fiction from the writers
but it does not accept anything in in
this four genres romance horror mystery
and science fiction
so if your poem or your prose is in
these genres then they won't be accepted
but the editors of agni encourage
submissions in these other fields like
personal essays think poems prose poems
creative non-fiction etc for pros the
payment is twenty dollars per printed
page which is a great rate considering
the online prices of other competitive
places so there are two ways to submit
your poems or your prose to agni you can
either send them a mail by the postal
system with your return address along
with postage and if you if you use snail
mail or if you use the postal system to
send your poems then your submission is
completely free and you can send up to
five poems in one envelope
but if you choose to make the submission
through their online portal which is
linked in the description of this video
then you have to pay a one-time
submission fee of three dollars if you
want to skip the submission fee you can
feel free to send them a snail mail and
send your poems at their address you are
going to find the address of agni in the
description of this video the third
magazine that pays you for your poems is
the epoch magazine which is published by
department of literatures in english of
cornell university the submission window
for epoch magazine is open from the 15th
of september to the 15th of april of the
next year so currently their submission
window is open and if you have any poem
that's not been published anywhere you
can definitely consider submitting to
epoch magazine their submission is not
online unfortunately but you can always
send them a snail mail at their address
which is linked in the description of
this video you can send up to 5 poems at
the time so when you're writing a cover
letter to them make sure you include all
your five poems in the same envelope to
be considered for submission there is no
submission fee and it's completely free
to submit your poem to epoch magazine
they pay you a minimum of 50 dollars per
poem there is no maximum and it's
entirely up to the discretion of the
editors you can also submit fiction
stories to epoch magazine and they pay
you a maximum of 150 dollars per fiction
story published the last magazine that
we are going to discuss in today's video
is called the fiddlehead magazine
fiddlehead has two submission windows
starting from september 15th to november
30 of each year and if you miss this
submission window you can always submit
in their next submission window which
opens from february 15 to april 30th so
if you have missed their submission
window this time make sure you bookmark
this video and you mark it on your
calendar so when the submission
guidelines open for the next time you
don't miss out on this amazing
opportunity they pay you 60 dollars cad
for each published page of your poem
aside from poems the fiddlehead also
accepts creative non-fiction as well as
fiction pieces they also accept artwork
which they will use on the cover of
their magazine and if your artwork or
your photography work gets selected for
their cover you are going to get a
one-time payment of 200
the fiddlehead is specially uh inclusive
to writers of color writers with
disabilities and writers from the
lgbtqia plus community and also people
from communities that are not usually
represented in mainstream popular
literature if you identify yourself as
belonging to either of these categories
you can feel free to mention this in
your cover letter there is no submission
fee to submit to the fiddlehead magazine
but they have a six-month wait time so
whenever you submit a piece of artwork a
poem or a fiction story you have to wait
for six months before you can hear an
acceptance or rejection so these are the
four places that pay you incredible
rates for submitting your poems before
we conclude let's quickly go through
some tips so that your chances of
getting accepted are increased
first of all your poems are always going
to be judged on their creativity so make
sure you do not copy the poems anywhere
and you show as much originality as you
can
secondly editors love pieces that make
them think so if you have written about
some thought provoking issue that you
feel is too close to your heart that
poem might be the best fit for places
like this aside from that these places
only accept poems in english and if you
are looking for places to submit poems
in other languages please let me know
what language you want to write your
poem in and i'll make sure i'll do some
research and find the right place for
you to submit your poem
i hope this video was useful to you if
you know a poet or if you know someone
who you know writes incredible poems
definitely forward this video to them
because i'm sure they'll find it super
valuable if you have any questions
regarding any of these magazines that i
mentioned or if you want me to make a
video on any specific topic of your
choice feel free to let me know in the
comments
before i conclude i'd like you to know
that i make these videos to help writers
from all over the world and i do it
completely free just to
just as a way to give back to the
community that has given me so much in
my life
if you'd like to support me on this
journey feel free to buy me a book the
link to buy me a book is also in the
description of this video
so that brings us to the end of today's
video i'll see you again soon until then
keep writing and stay awesome cheers