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"The mandate and primary aim of Contemporary Verse 2 is to educate, engage, and expand public appreciation of the poetic art form by sharing and promoting high-calibre, original verse and critical writing by local, national, and international poets."
Introduction
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Response Time
2-6 months / 139 days
Average acceptance rate
12.5%

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      Yes

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      Fee

      No

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      Expedited response

      No

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      Available in print

      Yes

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      Provide contributor copies

      two contributor copies

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      Examples online

      Yes

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      Active on social media

      Yes

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    Important stuff

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Types of Submissions Accepted

5 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Poetry

6 pages max

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Nonfiction

3-4 pages max

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Interview

6-8 pages max

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Review

Max words: 1000

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Translations

CV2 welcomes poetry submissions in French, as well as translation projects, including both French to English and English to French.

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Poetry

6 pages max

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Nonfiction

3-4 pages max

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Interview

6-8 pages max

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Review

Max words: 1000

Magazine

Founded in 1975 | Canada

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Chelsea Peters
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

18

Average acceptance rate

12.5%

Average response time

139 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

295/62 days

Fastest response time

58 days

Slowest response time

295 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

June avatarsherre vernon avatarKristin Gustafson avatar
5 pieces