What to submit
A wide variety of poetics works here, and you’ll have the most success submitting poems that can do these three things well:
- Feel good leaving the mouth;
- Use original or interesting language skillfully; and
- Use visual spacing, narrative pacing, consistent meter, or any combination of these to make the reading capture the reader.
Formal poetry is welcome, as is writing with tinges of the dreamlike or unreal.
Voices of people of color, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQ+ people are welcomed here.
How to submit
Please send five or fewer previously-unpublished poems to editor (at) neologismpoetry (dot) com, accompanied by a short, third-person bio of 50 words or fewer. Simultaneous submissions are welcome.
Please submit no more than ten pages of writing total.
Poems using an image format should be no wider than 675 px, or should appear as desired when resized to this width.
You may paste your work into the body of the email or submit an attachment; for clarity, underline the titles of your poems and, if on an attached document, start each poem on its own page.
If submitting translations, please include the original text of the poem following the translated text. You must have permission from the author of the original, or your translation should be of a public domain work, to be eligible for consideration.
Please do not submit more than once in the same month unless explicitly requested.
Timetable
Submissions are considered on a rolling basis and may be placed several months in the future, depending on fit with upcoming issues.
You should receive a response within 1-3 days. NO FORM REJECTIONS.
Reach out again if you haven’t received a response to your submission within 4 days.
New issues are typically posted on the 2nd of each month. A quirk of how Neologism started dictates the named month of the issue belongs to the month preceding the date of publication.
Copyrights
Neologism Poetry Journal reserves First Electronic Rights and non-exclusive Archival Rights. Copyright remains with published authors. Authors retain rights to reprint work in any format after it has appeared in Neologism Poetry Journal as long as Neologism is credited with first publication in the reprint, but authors may not reprint work between its acceptance in the Journal and publication in it.
Neologism Poetry Journal is a single-person operation and unfortunately cannot offer compensation for accepted work.