the minison zine only publishes closed-form poetry.
We encourage submissions of minimal sonnets and the related minison poetry forms but we also now accept closed-form poetry of any kind, including haikus, sestinas, pantoums, and, of course, traditional sonnets.
WHAT WE ACCEPT
- Any Closed Form Poetry (What is closed form poetry?)
- Minisons – single, plural, visual, conceptual, long-form (eg. 14 lines, 14 letters per line), mystical, natural, emoji, translations, or anything at all that encapsulates the spirit of a minimal sonnet! If you are still a bit confused, give our issue zero a quick peruse!
- Simultaneous Submissions – but please let us know immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere!
Guidelines
- Poetry should be previously unpublished.
- Attach up to 3 pieces in a single .DOC, or .DOCX format. (If we cannot read your piece we will automatically reject it.)
- Each poem should begin on a new page.
- We do not accept AI submissions.
- We do not accept submissions that contain graphic sexual content, gratuitous violence/gore, or work that is racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, or ableist.
- Copyright for your work remains with you. We do ask however, that contributors credit The Minison Project if their work is republished after first appearing in our issues, and we reserve the right to republish your work in future collections.
- The Minison Project does not charge fees to submit poems to the magazine.
- We are currently an unpaying market, but we do promote contributor work on our social media platforms.