Free Submissions for Native Poets (Shō No. 8)
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This submission portal is specifically for Native American and Indigenous Canadian poets. For regular submissions, please use this link.
As an Arizona-based journal, Shō offers free submissions to community-recognized members of tribal nations within the U.S. and its trust territories and to Indigenous Canadians (including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis poets).
If your work has appeared in two successive issues of Shō, please wait two issues before submitting again.
What to submit
1. Submit up to five previously unpublished poems at a time; please do not include poems that have been posted online (this includes social media feeds and blogs) or that have been published in any form. Include page numbers and your name on every page.
2. A cover letter and a short author biography: Please include your tribal affiliation in your cover letter. Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you specify this in your cover letter.
Note: We do not accept AI generated work.
Response time
Our average response time is 2 weeks. We attempt to respond to all submissions within 30 days.
Withdrawals
To withdraw a poem from consideration, send us a message through Submittable. Please do not send us updated versions of your poems after you've submitted.
Payment
Payment: Shō Poetry Journal is a print journal. Payment is one contributor’s copy. US-based authors also receive a discount on the purchase of extra copies. All work accepted for publication will be considered for the Shō Poetry Prize (for a single poem or group of poems) and the Sita Martin Prize (single poem or group of poems by an emerging poet). Winners must be valid US taxpayers based in the United States. Each winner receives $150 and a one-year subscription to Shō Poetry Journal.