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These submission guidelines were revised on
SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO SUBMISSIONS (at) MODERNENGLISHTANKA (dot) COM.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANY OTHER ADDRESS.
SUBMISSIONS SCHEDULE
EDITORIAL POLICY Please read carefully.
MET specializes in single tanka. Tanka in sets and sequences and collaborative tanka sequences
are not wanted. While the five-line criterion is generally definitive for tanka, MET will consider variant forms on an individual basis (like everything else!)
Serious poetry and adult themes are appreciated. Doggerel and anything that is pornographic or in any way nasty, hateful, bigoted, or partisan political, will not be accepted. All such judgments will be made at the sole discretion of the editor.
PUBLICATION NOTES: Modern English Tanka seeks to publish a comprehensive listing in each issue of recent publications related to tanka, including collections and chapbooks which include tanka. If you have published such a work or know of such a work, please feel free to send in a note that specifies the publication’s title, author/editor/translator/etc., publisher, date of publication, number of pages, type of binding, size/format, ISBN/ISSN, price, and information on where the publication may be purchased. We will consider publication notes received right up to MET’s press deadline, i.e., for several weeks after the poetry submissions deadline.
NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Please do not submit anything on offer anywhere else. We are not in the market for works under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please, also, do not re-submit any work that MET has turned down previously.
NOT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED: We primarily seek to publish fine verses that have not been previously published. Each poet is personally responsible for noting in the submission any previous publication of any submitted work. We, of course, reserve the discretion to select previously published work of extraordinary merit, from time to time.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an edited review. We DO NOT publish everything that is
submitted to us. We reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion in ALL cases.
If, for any reason, you cannot cope with rejection, better not to make submissions.
We use only a portion of the submissions that we receive. We do publish poets who have previously been published in Modern English Tanka; that does not mean that anyone has carte blanche to be published here. When we do reject a poem or poems, we generally will not notify you individually. The issue is posted online just before the print publication; those
submissions published are accepted and those that are not published were not accepted. Occasionally, we may want to offer some editorial comment, assistance, guidance, etc., in which case, we will respond to your submission before publication.
HOW TO SUBMIT FOR Modern English Tanka
SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO SUBMISSIONS (at) MODERNENGLISHTANKA (dot) COM.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
NOTE: You must be 16 or older to submit anything to
EMAIL POLICY:
We will not include
your email address with your bio sketch online unless you specifically request it. If you want your email address to be published
online and in the print and ebook editions, please say so in your submission email. No live links will be included.
THERE IS NO PAYMENT FOR CONTRIBUTORS
READ OUR COPYRIGHT POLICY & OUR PRIVACY POLICY
CONTRIBUTOR'S RESPONSIBILITIES
Include this personal information with your email submission:
SUBJECT LINE: "Modern English Tanka submission - [Your Name]"
BODY OF EMAIL:
1. Name.
Feel free to copy and paste the above list to your email, for convenience's sake. Just highlight
the list, then hit EDIT and COPY; then send in an email to the SUBMISSIONS email address and, in the body of your email,
hit EDIT and PASTE, and you will have the list to fill in. Add your poetry submission after
your personal information WITHIN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL.
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