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SUBMISSIONS

We aren't committed to a school, style, or kind of poem.

The editor is a poet himself and deliberately tries to publish past the edge of his own taste. So if the work is good, strange, surprising, or simply not what a journal like this usually publishes, send it.

Up to three poems in a single document. Any length, any form.

Send one poetry submission at a time and wait for a response before sending another. You may have one open submission across all genres. If you anticipate becoming a regular submitter, our Patreon program offers perks that may interest you.

Yes. We assume you're submitting elsewhere.

If a poem is accepted here, simply withdraw it elsewhere. If you place one with another journal, withdraw it here and we'll keep reading the rest.

We don't accept previously published work.

A personal blog, newsletter, or public social media post counts as published. Workshop and private-group sharing does not.

We publish human writing.

Please don't send work generated by AI, in whole or in part. We're not talking about your spell-checker. The line we care about is the one drawn by the Authors Guild in its AI Best Practices for Authors: the words and the thinking should be yours.

Inkhorn Review pays $25 per accepted poem or micro and $40 per accepted prose piece over 1,000 words or work of art. Payment is sent on publication day. Payment upon initial publication covers all uses.

Submissions are free. Tips are welcome and go toward the contributor fund, but they have no bearing on how work is read or selected.

We aim to respond within 30 days. If it's been more than 60 days, please query.

We acquire first serial rights and the right to include accepted work in our annual print edition and anthologies drawn from our archives. All other rights revert to the author on publication.

Accepted work appears in the next available space and stays in our online archive. Once a year, we assemble a printed annual from the online issues; that selection is editorial and separate.

Full rights language is available at inkhornreview.com/submissions.