GUIDELINES

Enquiries only (not submissions, unless Overseas): carolebaldock (at) hotmail(dot)com

There is no submission period. Submissions are 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, the fine has shot up from £1.50 to £5. We will not accept that post. You can pay and release the letter.

Covering letters appreciated with a brief epistle. Maximum 75 words. Even the greatest writer can manage that, so you can too! Please do not send us your CV. 

If you are previously published in Orbis, it is tactful to include us in the list of magazines.

Please include a phone number and an email address, with contact details on the back of each poem you send. Onepoem per ppage, except for haikus. Save yourself from getting your work lost in a mountain of paperwork floating around. Presentation should speak foritself.  

We also look forward to seeing prose/short stories (1000 words maximum., translations; suggestions for artwork/articles (500 – 1000 words), in particular, the material for the Past Master Section, albeit should be 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.

It is very important that contributors wait at least 12 months after publication before sending more work., giving chance to many excellent poems we receive while there is always a fight fo the space.

If your workis not selected, with tons of paperwork facing me, submissions per se should be limited to twice in any 12 month period –  but welcome any time of year that is.

Also, please do not re-submit work which has previously been returned unless revised/edited, in which case, a note would be useful.