Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971 and has been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston since 1989. They welcome unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during their Regular Reading Period. Ploughshares is published four times a year: blended poetry and prose issues in the winter and spring, a prose issue in the summer, and a special longform prose issue in the fall. They accept up to 6,500 words of prose, and 1-5 pages of poetry. If you are submitting to their Fall Longform issue, they accept up to 15,000 words. According to their guidelines, they pay $45/printed page, $90 minimum per title, and $450 maximum per author. To learn more, refer to this page.