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SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Our bi-monthly submissions are currently OPEN for the month of September, closing again at the end of the month.
Please email THREE POEMS MAX per submission round to bluebottlejournal@gmail.com ideally as a word doc rather than a pdf file. Please include a bio (50 words max) and your personal pronouns, along with any social media handles in the body of your email, so we have a general idea of who you are and how to promote you online.
Submissions are NOT read blindly, so feel free to keep your name in the file/doc itself too if you like. We aim to get back to you with a response within 4-6 weeks but in most cases much sooner! We pride ourselves on our speedy response times.
All submitted poems should be previously unpublished (including on social media/personal blogs). We'd also greatly appreciate you taking the courtesy to credit our journal if you decide to republish your work elsewhere in future (and congrats if you do!).
Please note: in a bid to keep fresh faces and names rolling through our journal, we do not currently accept submissions from past contributors to Blue Bottle Journal. We wish our entire catalogue of published poets all the very best for future publishing opportunities and will endeavour to share/showcase their work when we come across it on social media <3
We're thrilled to continue opening our submissions on a bi-monthly basis! What does this mean?
We want to remain a sustainable publication to avoid burning out or dwindling away into the void of lapsed domains of journals past.
So, to keep submissions rolling in regularly but at a manageable rate, we have one month open/one month closed. We therefore have submissions open in January, March, May, July, September, and November and closed in the months between. Please do not submit on our off-months, as we do not wish to ignore or delete any email submissions if we can avoid it.
Published pieces will also go up online on a rolling basis as they are sent through. Please note: we're happy to accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere!
Also please be mindful that as we are a small, new journal we are unable to pay contributors at this time. We'd love to explore paid opportunities for our poets in future and will continue to seek out funding options.
We greatly look forward to reading your work! Hit us where it hurts.
Our bi-monthly submissions are currently OPEN for the month of September, closing again at the end of the month.
Please email THREE POEMS MAX per submission round to bluebottlejournal@gmail.com ideally as a word doc rather than a pdf file. Please include a bio (50 words max) and your personal pronouns, along with any social media handles in the body of your email, so we have a general idea of who you are and how to promote you online.
Submissions are NOT read blindly, so feel free to keep your name in the file/doc itself too if you like. We aim to get back to you with a response within 4-6 weeks but in most cases much sooner! We pride ourselves on our speedy response times.
All submitted poems should be previously unpublished (including on social media/personal blogs). We'd also greatly appreciate you taking the courtesy to credit our journal if you decide to republish your work elsewhere in future (and congrats if you do!).
Please note: in a bid to keep fresh faces and names rolling through our journal, we do not currently accept submissions from past contributors to Blue Bottle Journal. We wish our entire catalogue of published poets all the very best for future publishing opportunities and will endeavour to share/showcase their work when we come across it on social media <3
We're thrilled to continue opening our submissions on a bi-monthly basis! What does this mean?
We want to remain a sustainable publication to avoid burning out or dwindling away into the void of lapsed domains of journals past.
So, to keep submissions rolling in regularly but at a manageable rate, we have one month open/one month closed. We therefore have submissions open in January, March, May, July, September, and November and closed in the months between. Please do not submit on our off-months, as we do not wish to ignore or delete any email submissions if we can avoid it.
Published pieces will also go up online on a rolling basis as they are sent through. Please note: we're happy to accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know as soon as possible if your work is accepted elsewhere!
Also please be mindful that as we are a small, new journal we are unable to pay contributors at this time. We'd love to explore paid opportunities for our poets in future and will continue to seek out funding options.
We greatly look forward to reading your work! Hit us where it hurts.
