Rust and Moth

How to submit

• Processs

  Form

• Cover letter

  Include a personal bio of no more than fifty words, written in the third person. If you submit by email, please include the bio in the body of the email, not in an attachment. You may also send links to your Twitter account, Facebook page, and/or website to help fans better find you from your published works.

• Eligibility

  No specific eligibility requirements

• Formatting

  Send all poems in a group using the contact form or as an email attachment (.pdf files only). Do not paste poems into the body of the email. Rust & Moth uses a standard web publication line length of 45-75 characters. When submitting poetry, please be aware that poems with longer line lengths may need alteration to work in our format. Please reference our published works for examples. For some helpful tips on how we format poems and artist bios, please see our Style Guide https://rustandmoth.com/style-guide-for-authors/

• Author's rights

  Individual rights revert to authors upon publication. By submitting your work, you affirm you are the sole author and maintain all rights for your work. We request that any poem republished from Rust & Moth be properly cited. We reserve the right to nominate works published in Rust & Moth for honors such as the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, etc. Rust & Moth will inform authors of such nominations via email.

• Additional info

  Our guidelines are subject to change. Please review them prior to submitting. Poems are published online over the course of the season. Once the issue is complete, it is released in its entirety in print and as a free ebook.