Oct 28 2008
Poet’s Market Listing - Example
Today I wanted to show you all what a typical Poet’s Market listing looks like. I’ve used my own as an example.
<YASOU EZINE
E-mail: joanneolivieri@sbcglobal.net. Web site: http://yasouezine.tripod.com. Established 2000. Contact:Joanne Olivieri, editor.
Magazine Needs Yasou Ezine, published online 3 times/year in March, July, and November, is “an eclectic mix of poetry, short stories, art, photography and commentaries. We publish work which is geared towards celebrating life to it’s fullest and accept work by beginning as well as seasoned writers. We also accept artwork and photography. All artists considered.” Does not want “anything of a violent or sexually explicit nature.” Considers poetry by children and teens. Has published poetry by Taylor Graham, B.Z. Niditch, Colleen Breuning, C. David Hay, Paula Timpson, Corey Mesler, Lyn Lifshin and Genny Harten-Borleis. Receives about 500 poems/year, accepts about 25%. Number of unique visitors: “hundreds per month.” Sample: free online.
How to Submit Submit 3 poems at a time. Lines/poem: no limit. Considers previously published poems and simultaneous submissions. (Considers poetry posted on a public Web site/blog/forum and poetry posted on a private, password-protected forum as published.) E-mail submissions only (pasted into body of e-mail message); no disk submissions. Cover letteris unnecessary. “Read our guidelines page.” Reads submissions year round. Time between acceptance and publication is 3 months. Never comments on rejected poems. Guidelines available on Web site. Responds in 1 week. Never sends prepublication galleys. Pays “for featured poet in each issue. We pay in cash, plus either a music CD or poetry chapbook.” Rights revert to poets upon publication. Reviews chapbooks of poetry. “For a modest fee of $5, we will review chapbooks of poetry and publish the review in the following issue along with a link to the poet’s Web site. Make checks payable to Joanne Olivieri.”
Contest/Award OfferingsSponsors annual poetry contest. “The ezine sponsors a poetry contest annually at which time the rules and awards will be listed on our Web site. Please check Web site regularly for detailed information.”\lineAdvice “We encourage beginners to submit their work. We pride ourselves on recognizing the uniqueness of each poet and affording them the opportunity to be published. All styles and forms welcome.”>
As you can see it states the magazine info, the magazine needs and how to submit your poetry. It also includes extra tidbits that are important to the magazine. If you’ll notice is also says “(Considers poetry posted on a public Web site/blog/forum and poetry posted on a private, password-protected forum as published.) ”
Which basically means that anything published online and is visible to all - meaning you don’t need a password to see it on a page, is considered as previously published which in this case is okay because I accept previously published work. However many zines do not so if you see this statement and the zine does not accept previously published work then you cannot submit any poetry that has already been published elsewhere. So, if you read this and have any questions about submitting or any questions at all please feel free to post them here or contact me.
