An international online literary journal. We publish the highest quality poetry and prose from emerging and established writers. B O D Y publishes three issues per year on a rolling basis: Winter; Spring; and Fall.

We also showcase contemporary artworks through our interviews with artists. Please read our submission guidelines carefully and send us only your very best work. We do not favor work in any particular style or from any particular school: our only criterion is excellence. B O D Y is an independent publication and not affiliated to any institution, academic or otherwise. We do not ask for your money in order to read your work.

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General call

For our Scottish Poetry issue, we are looking for poems in English, Gaelic, and Scots.
Submit 3 to 6 poems, up to a total of 10 pages of poetry
Work must be in a single document
Each poem should start on a new page
Also:
If submitting poems in Gaelic: please include full translations in English. Translations will appear alongside the originals for this issue.
If submitting poems in Scots: please include a short glossary of any words the poet feels an international audience may find unfamiliar.
Due to our submissions cap and the volume of submissions we receive, we ask you to submit work no more than once per reading period.

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