Poetica Publishing

 We Publish Only Poetry. Please read the following guidelines carefully and in their entirety.

Disregarding our guidelines may result in your submission being disqualified.

Statement- 

We consider original-unpublished works by writers from all parts of the world. We are interested in spiritually engaged poems from a broad range of perspectives. We like accessible works that find fresh meaning in old traditions that recognize the challenges of our generation. We evaluate works on several levels, including its skillful use of craft; its ability to hold interest; and layers of meaning.

Guidelines-

--Please submit ONE poem in a single submission. 

--We review unlimited number of submissions by a single writer and reply to all within a month. Only two poems per writer will be included in this edition. *If you haven't heard from us, please send us a follow-up email to: poeticapublishing@aol.com. Please do not include any contact information with the works, only with the cover letter (optional).  Our objective is for poets and writers to be widely read, not to monopolize your work.

--We respect pen names... but please submit under your choice of name. 

--We prefer Time New Roman font #11 RTF/DOC files. 

--We favor ONE-PAGE poems up to 40 lines. 

--No simultaneous submissions. Only unpublished works will be considered (unpublished for us means it has not previously appeared in its entirety online or in print, including blogs and social media). 

--Mizmor Anthology claims First North American Serial Rights, with rights reverting back to the author upon publication. We kindly ask that if the work is reprinted in a full collection or anthology it is credited as first appearing in Mizmor Anthology. 

--At this time, we are unable to offer payments to contributors, aside from our ravenous gratitude (but we hope to change this soon!).  

This is eEdition and will be released November 2019.  

If there is enough interest, editors will offer this edition in print.

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Thank you!   

The Editors

www.PoeticaPublishing.com 

Welcome to the Sohela Micro Chapbook Prize!

Award:

$100, and print publication (30 copies)

The Sohela Chapbook Prize is named after the poet Sohela Miriam who dedicated most of her adult life to writing poems on postcards and mailing them to family and friends from around the world. After her passing at just 26, her family found a box with over one-hundred poem-postcards addressed to herself. This prize is named after her in the spirit of all people and their unknown creative genius.

Micro-chapbooks are ten (10) pages long by a single writer, each poem no longer than 40 lines, please. Collections centered around a unifying theme will be given preference. The award is open to writers of any level and background. Individual poems from the manuscript may have been published previously in magazines but not books or chapbooks.  The collection as a whole must be unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are not accepted.  We do not consider translations.  Any identifying information should not appear in the manuscript or manuscript title. Please use the title of your micro-chapbook as the subject of your entry.

No limit on the number of submissions per writer, but each collection should be submitted separately. 

To withdraw your work, please do so from SUBMITTABLE (not by email). 

All entries will be read and judged by our editors (TBD). 

The submission fee is $5 to cover submission management.  

All entrants will receive one (1) copy of the winning collection.

Thank you,

The Editors

Poetica Publishing

Welcome Poets;

Our printing company is offering an attractive discount for collections up-to 30 pages total. This offer is for well crafted, edited and ready-to-print manuscripts. Authors retain all rights to their work--noted in the copyright page. Promotion is offered FREE of charge to our 8K+ confirmed subscribers and via social media pages. Interested poets are encouraged to submit a manuscript for a review. We offer additional services for full poetry and/or prose collections, essay and short story collections, copy editing, and much more. 

What to submit:

25 pages of poetry

poems in order of choice 

+ title page / introduction page

+ acknowledgment page 

+ about the author page

+ table of contents page 

Editors are ready and excited to review your manuscript. 

Questions; poeticapublishing@aol.com 

Thank you,

The Editors

Poetica Publishing