12 PLACES TO SUBMIT YOUR POEMS

OLONGO JOURNAL
 
Olongo will receive both solicited and unsolicited pieces from across all social ranges and regions in Africa. All works must be previously unpublished, simultaneous submissions permitted. New writers highly encouraged to submit.
 
Prize/Pay: Undisclosed but assured.
Submission Window/ Deadline: Year-long submissions
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read guidelines here:
https://olongoafrica.com/submit/
 
 
LOLWE
Lolwe is looking for work that is bold, different, and blurs or pushes boundaries: play with form and language, ignore genre classifications, send in your fears and joys, your doubts and faiths, your curiosities and silences.
 
Prize/Pay: Undisclosed but assured.
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2021
Entry Fee: None
 
Read guidelines here: 
https://lolwe.org/submit/
 

 
POETRY COLUMN-NND
POETRY COLUMN-NND is open to poetry submissions weekly. They hope to publish one poem per week in Nigerian NewsDirect newspaper by Nigerian poets & are open to a diversity of voices—established & emerging. Check out their website for older publications to have an idea of what they publish.
 
Prize/Pay: N5,000 per accepted poem
Submission Window: Saturday – Wednesday every week (Entries submitted on Thursday and Friday will remain unread).
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read guidelines here: 
https://nigeriannewsdirect.com/call-for-submissions-weekly-poetry-column/
 
 

ARTSLOUNGE
ArtsLounge is currently open for submissions for Volume 1, Issue 1. This call is an open submission and writers can submit works with variant themes, styles, and forms, either as traditional pieces or hybrids.
 
Deadline: February 28th 2020
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read Guidelines here:
https://artsloungenyc.com/2021/01/20/call-for-submission/
 

 
UNDERBLONG
Enter to win the blongprize, or America’s Next Top Blongee (need not be American to apply).
 
Prize/Pay: 2 winners will receive $150 and 2 runner-ups will receive $100. All entries will be considered for publication in Issue 6. Contributors to Issue 6 will be paid $20.
Submission Window: Feb. 15 to Mar. 15
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read guidelines here: 
https://www.underblong.com/send-plz
 

 
THE 7TH SINGAPORE POETRY CONTEST
In conjunction with Gaudy Boy’s June 2021 publication of The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong (Singaporean/Malaysian edition), Singapore Unbound’s SP Blog is holding its seventh annual poetry contest with a new call inspired by the title of this extraordinary novel. They are looking for poems about “the sweetest fruits,” treated literally in odes to the tropical fruits of Southeast Asia, or figuratively in poems that wrap themselves deliciously around this theme. The contest is open to everyone. A Nigerian poet, Iloh Onyekachi, won Third Place last year.
 
Prize/Pay: USD100, 50, and 20
Deadline: April 15, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read guidelines here: 
https://singaporeunbound.org/opportunities
 


THE ANIMAL HEART POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Animal Heart Press is calling for submissions to their first ever poetry chapbook contest.
Prize:
– 50% of the reading fees
– publication of chapbook with Animal Heart Press
– 5 print copies of the chapbook
– a feature in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art
 
Two runners up will receive:
– a copy of the winning book
– a feature in FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art
– a print copy of the issue of FERAL in which their feature appears
 
Deadline: February 28, 2021
Entry Fee: $5

Read guidelines here: 
https://animalheartpress.net/the-animal-heart-poetry-chapbook-contest/
 


GHOST CITY PRESS: MICRO-CHAP SERIES
GHC PRESS welcomes collections of poetry, prose, or other multimedia work—the more creative the better. Co-authored collections are also welcomed.
 
Prize: A Published Micro-Chap with Ghost City Press
Deadline: March 1, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read Guidelines here:
https://ghostcitypress.com/microchap-submission-guidelines
 
 

THE SHORE JOURNAL
The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike. They want poems that explore the worlds of things and ideas, that recognize the liminality, the shifting of everything around us and our ability to name a thing whole. Send them your best. They publish 4 times a year.
 
Deadline: March 1, 2021
Entry Fee: NONE
Read guidelines here:  
https://www.theshorepoetry.org/#:~:text=Submission%20Guidelines%3A,the%20body%20of%20the%20email.
 

 
SLIPSTREAM POETS OPEN POETRY COMPETITION 2021
Entries are invited ON ANY SUBJECT
 
Prize/Pay: £200, £100, £50
Deadline: April 15, 2021
Entry Fee: £5.00 first poem, £3.50 for each additional submission.
 
Read Guidelines here:
http://www.slipstream-poets.co.uk/competition/
 

 
POETS&PLAYERS: 9TH POETRY COMPETITION
 
Prize/Pay: £600, £200, £100
Deadline: 1 March 2021
Entry Fee: £4 per poem or 3 for £10. Email entries must be paid by PayPal.
 
Read Guidelines here:
https://poetsandplayers.co/competition/competition-2021/
 
 
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THE FIDDLEHEAD
Literary Journal open to writing open to good writing in English or translations into English from all over the world and in a variety of styles, including experimental genres. The Fiddlehead will not read work that is ableist, misogynistic, queer-phobic, or racist.
 
Prize/Pay: $60 CAD per published page plus two complimentary copies of the issue with your work.
Submission Window: February 15 - April 30; September 15 - November 30.
Entry Fee: NONE
 
Read guidelines here:
https://thefiddlehead.ca/submit
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