Please read ALL submission
guidelines before sending work to this publication. Work that does not follow
our guidelines will be rejected without being read. No exceptions.
*Please DO NOT send print
submissions to one of our home addresses. It’s extra creepy.
What Can I Submit?
- 1-3 Poems (per reading period)
- Winter Issue Reading Period: September 1 – November 1
- Summer Issue Reading Period: March 1 – June 1
- If you submit your poems as individual entries instead
of in one entry, we will only read your first submission. All others will
be denied without review.
- No simultaneous or previously published work. This can
get messy. So, we don't deal with it. We only want fresh work. If
you've self-published or you've published to the web, you may not submit
to us as this does count as previously published work.
- Poems can range in length from 2 lines to 2 pages. Do
not send us an epic. Also, keep in mind that our format does not allow for
very long lines and/or prose poems. For more on the type of work we're
looking for, please review "The Mission" and one or two of our
archived issues.
- Generally we read and respond to submissions for our
Winter issue between December 1 – January 31st. We read and respond to
Summer entries between July 2 – August 2. We try to get through work as
fast as possible, but depending on the number of submissions we receive,
this can take some time. Please be patient with us.
How and Where Do I Submit?
I.
Submit by e-mail to aberrationlabyrinth@gmail.com (Please write SUBMISSION and YOUR NAME in the subject line of the e-mail)
II.
Entries must be pasted IN PLAIN TEXT
into the body of a single e-mail.
a. Multiple e-mails will be deleted
without being read. We only take your first one each reading period.
b.
E-mails with attachments will be
deleted without being read. Virus freaks here!
We receive a large number of
submissions during each reading period. For this reason, we cannot always
respond to each individual poet with feedback. You will ONLY receive a detailed
response if you’ve been accepted. Rejections will receive a one or two sentence
e-mail informing you of the rejecton.
If we've rejected your work, it
likely means it did not fit with the current issue. Don't be discouraged;
submit to the next issue.
Aberration Labyrinth claims
first-time publication rights, but all rights revert back to the author upon
publication. The publisher will keep the poetry active through the duration of
the issue, after which it will be archived. We will not remove poems from
our .pdf files. If you publish this work again, please mention that you
were first published here.
*There is no monetary compensation
for publication at this time. You will be notified if this changes. For
now, potential web notoriety will have to suffice.
