GUIDELINES

Enquiries only (not submissions, unless Overseas): carolebaldock (at) hotmail(dot)com.
And with something sensible in the subject box (not ‘hello’ when we haven’t even been introduced), or liable to be deleted unread.

There is no submission period - always welcome. Send four poems by post to 17 Greenhow Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 5EL,  PLUS SAE, preferably C5 (fewer problems re postage [LARGE] and managing to squeeze everything in [small])

There is no reading fee.

Please note, if submissions posted with incorrect stamps, payment to ccver charge required for response

Brief covering letter; no need for press packs - let your work do the talking, and if previously published in Orbis, always be tactful to include us in CV list of magazines.

Please include a phone number and an email address, with contact details on the back of each poem you send. One poem per page, except for haikus.

We also look forward to seeing prose/short stories (1000 words maximum; extracts may be included), translations; suggestions for artwork/articles (500 – 1000 words), in particular, for the Past Master Section: out of copyright (before the end of 1940); couple of hundred words + 20 lines from a favourite poem.

NB: Email is for overseas only: 2 submissions maximum, and no attachments.

If your work is not selected, submissions should be limited to twice in any 12 month period. Please do not re-submit work which has previously been returnedl, also, if something already on file, further submissions cannot be considered. 

After publication, welcome to send more poems - preferably around 12 months later. Work is usually returned with an invite for further submissions, but please do not interpret ‘in due course’ as ‘by return of post’ - or email more within the next half hour.