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"Poetry Northwest was founded as a quarterly, poetry-only journal in 1959 by Errol Pritchard, with Carolyn Kizer, Richard Hugo, Nelson Bentley, and Edith Shiffert (“Far Eastern”) as co-editors."
Introduction
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Response Time
6 months / 116 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Need to know for submitting

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      Simultaneous submissions

      Yes

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      Previously published

      No

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      Payment

      No

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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

      No

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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

3 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Poetry

Max pieces: 4

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Nonfiction

We welcome unsolicited submissions of book reviews or essays all year.

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Review

We welcome unsolicited submissions of book reviews or essays all year.

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Poetry

Max pieces: 4

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Nonfiction

We welcome unsolicited submissions of book reviews or essays all year.

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Review

We welcome unsolicited submissions of book reviews or essays all year.

Magazine

Founded in 1959 | United States

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 :)

Keetje Kuipers
Editor-in-Chief
Aaron Barrell
Managing Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

38

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

116 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/116 days

Fastest response time

60 days

Slowest response time

201 days

Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 809 days

Contributors on Chill Subs

Lynne Ellis avatar
1 pieces