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Q&A A Market For Long Narrative Poetry?

Whenever I go to a bookstore, they either do not have any poetry books at all, or only a very small selection of classics shelved alongside Homer and Shakespeare. When you search "market for poetr...

posted 6y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T10:23:53Z (almost 5 years ago)
Whenever I go to a bookstore, they either do not have any poetry books at all, or only a very small selection of classics shelved alongside Homer and Shakespeare.

When you search "market for poetry" in your favourite search engine, you'll find a couple of webpages that list venues that pay for short poems, mostly periodicals such as _Christian Science Monitor_ or _Slice_. You'll have to research them.

But none of these publish epic poetry. Your best approach would be a two-step strategy:

- Find the publishers that publish contemporary poetry (your format) or fantasy (your content) and submit. Maybe one of them will be interested.

- If none of them want your work, self-publish. Be prepared for a tremendous marketing effort or be conent with a handful of readers.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-12-21T08:21:33Z (almost 6 years ago)
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