An internationally recognised independent literary journal established in November 1984. Our bi-annual publication includes poetry, prose poetry, translations, fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction, reviews and essays by established writers from around the world.
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Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
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When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Process
Email
Cover letter
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
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Additional info
We appreciate social and poetic awareness; enjoy what’s spontaneous, strong and direct alongside writing that prompts close and divergent readings. While our central focus stems from the political and socio-economic predicaments of the individual in relation to his/her historical and geographical landscape, Tears in the Fence is open to other human issues and concerns and seeks to be forward-looking in relation to current developments within world poetry. Copies. Contributors receive a copy of the issue in which they appear and can purchase further copies.
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Total submissions tracked
930 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
7 days
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About
We embrace neo-Romantic, modernist and post-modernist developments in British and American poetry and have been an outlet for prominent poets associated with the British Poetry Revival as well as later generations of British, black and Asian poets. We are internationalist and have editorial bases in...
Read moreFounded
1984
Country
GB
Masthead
David Caddy
Editor-in-Chief
Richard Foreman
Fiction Editor