New Verse Review: Halloween Mini-issue Gold Star Program Gold Star Free Tip Jar Option

Deadline: Sunday, September 20, 2026 11:59 PM EDT (in 15 days).

New Verse Review is open for submissions to its 2026 Halloween mini-issue from September 1 through September 20. Submit up to five creepy, gothic, and/or autumnal poems. Poems can also be about the fall season and its holidays: Halloween, All Souls, All Saints, Día de los Muertos. We are interested in poems that range from the horrific to the hilarious, from the macabre to the moving. While focus on metrical poetry, we are open to well-crafted free verse.

You may want to take a look at the 2024 and 2025 Halloween issues.

Some other guidelines:

Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please send a prompt follow-up message if a submitted poem is accepted elsewhere.
We are not interested in AI forgeries of human poems. AI should not be used in any way in the writing of poems submitted to NVR.

NVR's full guidelines can be found here.

Thank you for sharing your work with us!

The NVR Editors (Steve Knepper and Zina Gomez-Liss)

Category: Poetry
Translations: Permitted.
File types: .doc, .docx
Number of Pieces: Up to 5 pieces per submission.
Single File: Not required; may include a separate file/link for each piece.

Anonymous submissions are not required.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Reprints are not allowed.
Multiple entries are not allowed.
AI-assisted works are not allowed.

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