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P – Call for Submissions to The Gentian Journal. Theme: Found Things
Submissions Call for Issue 17: Found Things
I’m Elliot, Guest Editor for the second Gentian issue of the academic year. This theme particularly resonates with me because I’m fascinated by place and the way we engage with spatial meaning – we spend so much of our time in our own heads, consumed by the mundane, that we often forget to notice this physical world around us.
How can poetry be located in place, object or function? This might be rooted in memory and nostalgia, or a constant present association that you have with the world. A poem can so often be masked in the material world, taking on the disguise of the accidental, functional, or instructive to do so.
I look forward to receiving your submissions,
Elliot Burrin, Guest Editor
Poetry
Submit your poems as an attached Word document, not in the body of the email.
You can submit up three poems.
Poems must be no longer than 40 lines.
Use a standard typeface and 12pt. font.
Please put all poems on a new page and make your titles clear.
We accept translations that have been properly credited.
Submissions should be sent to thegentianjournal@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Gentian Submission’.
If you would prefer to be published under a pseudonym, or ‘Anonymous’, please specify in the body of your email.
We accept simultaneous submissions and submissions of previously published work. Please notify us if your work has been accepted elsewhere (we’d like to congratulate you!).
We ask for non-exclusive, one-time, worldwide rights to publish your work in a digital format, and then to archive it indefinitely. If your work has first been published with us, and is later reprinted, please credit us with its first appearance.
We accept no hate speech of any kind, and will not accept any poems we feel are racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic or ableist.