Since 2005, The New Verse News has covered the news of the day with poems on issues, large and small, international and local. It relies on the submission of poems (especially those of a politically progressive bent) by writers from all over the world.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 14 days after submission*/Editor reported data1 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 5%*/Editor reported data16.67%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Best Of The Net, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
How to submit
Process
Email
Cover letter
Send a brief bio.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please paste poems into the body of your email. We don't open unsolicited attachments.
Author's rights
By submitting work to The New Verse News, a writer, explicitly or implicitly, agrees to yield first electronic serial rights to The New Verse News according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.. The writer retains all other rights to her/his/their work. The writer of a poem accepted by the editors will be informed of that acceptance simultaneously with the posting of the poem on site. Poems published in The New Verse News generally remain available in the site's archives eternally or until a writer requests that her/his/their work be deleted.
Additional info
Online newspoems? We were at it in 2005–long before those other guys—and every day since.
