Happy Monday, everyone! Welcome to Week 10—just one week before Finals Week, and just ten days before spring officially begins! 
We have two reminders for this week: first, that this Thursday (March 14) is the last day to submit teaching evaluations for LAS courses, and second, that this Friday (March 15) is the last day to submit your work to Mistake House Magazine and the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize. (Click here for details on Mistake House submissions, and click here for details on the book prize.)
Scroll down for two newly-listed calls for submissions!
(The information below has been copied from each journal’s website.)
1. The New Limestone Review
Deadline: March 21, 2025, 11:00 PM CT
About:
New Limestone Review is the literary journal of the University of Kentucky’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. We are currently accepting submissions in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography.
Guidelines:
- The theme for this issue is “Rotten” Themes, symbols, and imagery related to the idea of Rot, Rotten Rotting experiences personal and societal.
- You may submit for multiple genres.
- Include a cover letter with a third-person bio of 100 words or less for each submission.
- We permit simultaneous submissions, please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- We do not accept previously published work.
There is a reading fee of $3 with each submission.
- Fiction : 5,000 words or less
- Creative nonfiction: 5,000 words or less
- Poetry: up to five poems, no more than 10 pages
- Flash Fiction: 1,000 words or less
- Art and Photography: up to 5 pieces
Submission Page: https://thenewlimestonereview.submittable.com/submit
2. Poetry Wales
Deadline: April 4, 2025, 6:00 PM CT
About:
Founded in 1965, Poetry Wales is the national poetry magazine of Wales. Wales’ foremost poetry magazine, Poetry Wales publishes internationally respected contemporary poetry, features and reviews in its triannual print and digital magazine in its mission to sustain and preserve the artistic works both inspiring our literary present and shaping our literary future. Its interests in translation, and in local and national identities in a global context, are at the forefront of some of the most exciting developments in poetry today.
The magazine is open to tradition and experiment, publishing poetry from a wide range of approaches. Against this background of dynamic contrast, it offers a lively and informed critical context for the finest contemporary poetry.
As well as publishing three journals a year, Poetry Wales also hosts several competitions, including the annual Wales Poetry Award, as well as Wales Young Poets Award and Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition.
While we always try to have a Welsh focus and amplify Welsh voices, we encourage work from writers all over the world.
Guidelines:
What Are We Looking For?
In general we are looking for work that is hard to decline. We want to accept your poems. We are happy when we open a document or envelope and find something which makes us applaud, laugh, cry, sing, dance or punch the air with triumph at your achievement. We will publish excellent poems on any subject, and indeed it is essential to the magazine that we address a wide range of subjects, so we very much want to see poems about anything you are passionate about.
We want to unleash new writers on the world, and to represent as broad as possible a range of writers as our page count will allow, so please don’t be put off if you are previously unpublished. We are just as happy to see poems by brand new writers as we are those by poets whose work we have loved over many years. We would ask though that if you are published in the magazine, please wait for a couple of issues before submitting again, unless you have been commissioned to write something.
A good piece of advice for any submitting writer is to read the magazine that you are
submitting to. Whether this is just reading our latest issue, or taking out a subscription, it is
an excellent way of understanding the sort of work we accept. If a subscription or one-off issue is not accessible to you at the moment, you can also get an idea of the work we respond to by reading our How I Write a Poem interview series.
You can find out the details of how to submit on our submissions page during times when
our submissions window is open. We accept submissions by post, email (poetrywalessubmissions@gmail.com) and Submittable,
which is our preferred method. We do ask that:
- You submit only once per window, by one method (Submittable/email/post)
- You try not to make simultaneous submissions. We realise that this is not always possible, but we try to get back to you as soon as we can with an answer. If you find that a poem is taken somewhere else when it is still under consideration with us, please let us know ASAP by emailing poetrywalessubmissions@gmail.com. Editorial time, pages of the magazine and the ordering of pages may be riding on this.
- You bear in mind that we are unable to consider work that has been published elsewhere, either online or in print.
- You include a short cover letter including a 50-word bio. A good writer should be able to sum up their poetic life in 50 words.
- You consider sending up to four poems. It doesn’t hurt to think about how poems in your submission may complement each other if they are published together, though we will of course publish poems which are excellent and stand alone.
Features, Interviews and Reviews
We are currently open to pitches for features, interviews, and reviews. If you would like to be considered as an addition to our pool of reviewers, please fill out this form. Also please see our Guide to Writing Articles, Interviews, and Reviews for Poetry Wales, and our Style Guide.
Books for review
Please send books to review initially as a PDF, and we will request hard copies if we decide to review it. Please send to PWreviews@serenbooks.com.
Payment Rates
- Poems: £20/page
- Reviews: £67.50/1500-word review
- Articles: £150/3000 word, or in that proportion, depending on number of published words
- Payment is made on publication
- Payments are made by the publisher. Please contact francesturpin@serenbooks.com with any issue regarding payments
- Contributors are also sent one complimentary copy of the issue they are featured in
Submission page: https://poetrywales.submittable.com/submit
In case you missed it . . .
Last week, we updated our list of internships available for Spring Quarter. (This includes the Electric Literature internship, which has an application deadline of next Monday, March 17.) Click here to view the list!