coastlines review a journal of documentary poetics

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like a coastline, truth shifts with each wave. what documentary poetics reveals is not a fixed shoreline but the constant movement between what’s submerged and what breaks the surface — between official record and lived experience, between what reportage captures and what it leaves beneath the waterline.
coastlines erode. what once seemed permanent disappears into the water, while new land emerges elsewhere. the documents we trust — records, photographs, testimonies — are subject to the same forces: decay, revision, reinterpretation.
coastlines review publishes poetry and hybrid work that engages with documentary materials, archival fragments, found language, preserved histories, and the question of what gets recorded and what gets erased. we’re interested in work that understands truth as layered, shifting, and subject to erosion and revelation.

Country of Publication & Year Established

Germany

Established in 2026

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

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Human-created work only; no AI use allowed

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; 3 - 5 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

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No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Artwork: Unknown number of pieces.

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media, including...
Mixed media.
Collage.
Photography.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Image.

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We have received 6 reports from 6 different members within the past 12 months. The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.

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1 min | 33.0 mean avg | 18.5 median | 105 max days (38.0 std dev)

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The editors will try to make a decision within 14 days. (66.7 % of the responses reported to us for this listing have taken longer than 14 days.)
Most recent response reported was received on 25 May 2026.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 23 Feb 2026.
Date compiled: 18 Sep 2026 02:20 UTC (less than a minute ago).

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Last Updated: 02 Aug 2026

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