The following conditions apply to all poetry submissions:
- We will only read submissions sent during our official submission periods.
- Cordite maintains a hybrid submissions policy. This means that the guest editor may invite five (5) Australian and five (5) overseas authors directly to submit to the issue. In addition, the guest-editor will anonymously select an additional 30-35 works from Australian authors and use their discretion to select further overseas works. For each issue, the guest editor does not know the identities of the online contributors (via Submittable) until after the final selections have been made.
- Simultaneous submissions? Sure. Just inform us or withdraw if the work is accepted elsewhere.
- Please place up to three (3) poems in one (1) Word or RTF document (unless specifically noted otherwise for special issues), with no identifying details in the document itself.
- We are not able to offer feedback on individual poems.
- Submissions will only be accepted via Submittable …
- Submissions may need to be developed to adhere to our Guide for Indigenous Editing and Writing.publications are the quarterly Cordite Poetry Review – an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research – and series of print books.
