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SUBMISSIONS OPEN
Our bi-monthly submissions are currently OPEN for the month of September, closing again in October.
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All submitted poems should be previously unpublished (including on social media/personal blogs).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: We are very pleased to now open up our submissions to past Blue Bottle contributors. We're entering a new era of the journal where we're happy to hear from some familiar faces and continue building the strength of our poetry catalogue into the future.
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 a one month open/one month closed policy. 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 (again, congrats if it is!).
Also please be mindful that as we are a small unfunded 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 in October.
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: We are very pleased to now open up our submissions to past Blue Bottle contributors. We're entering a new era of the journal where we're happy to hear from some familiar faces and continue building the strength of our poetry catalogue into the future.
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 a one month open/one month closed policy. 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 (again, congrats if it is!).
Also please be mindful that as we are a small unfunded 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.
