Submission Guidelines
How do I submit?
You can submit to us by email. Send your previously unpublished poems – no more than four per edition, please – using the form on our submissions page. Include your name, the title of your poem and a short third person biography including your age, poetic achievements, interests and anything else you think is worth mentioning. It’s worthwhile keeping your member biography on your profile page up to date. Please submit only one poem at a time and remember no more than four per edition.
N.B. If you don’t use your real name as your username when you submit, then we can’t attribute your published poems to you. Please use your full name when registering. If you don’t want to use your real name on the forums, you can create another account.
By the way, we really do mean it about only four poems – we receive A LOT of submissions, and we need time to eat and sleep, so we’ll stop reading after the fourth. If you have special formatting that you want to preserve then please email us for advice using the form on the contact page.
We shortlist every poem we’re interested in, so it can take us a while to get back to you. We’re really sorry about this, and we are trying to make our response time quicker. If you haven’t heard from us after about two months, feel free to drop us a follow-up email to check how we’re getting on, and we’ll try to update you as soon as we can.
Note: the editors’ decisions are final. We regret we can’t offer feedback on submissions. Oh, and please don’t be angry with us if we don’t accept your work – we’re nice people and we try hard to make everyone happy!
What kind of poetry do you want?
Exciting. Moving. Original. Beyond that we love everything: formal, free, funny, sad… show us what you’ve got. It’s a good idea to have a browse through the site first, just to get a feel for the kind of project we’re running here – and also because the poetry is brilliant and always worth a read!
Issue 11 of Pomegranate will go live in APRIL – the theme is BUST, and we are now accepting submissions.
What kind of poetry DON’T you want?
- Poems written by people over 30. Seriously folks, there’s enough out there for you!
- Poems littered with careless spelling/grammar mistakes. Check it through! Oh, and if it’s a deliberate, arty mistake, we can usually tell.
- Poems about “emotions you can’t describe”. If you can’t describe them, you’re not a poet. Try it! What’s the worst that could happen?
What if I’m submitting an article, not poetry?
We’re always on the look-out for thoughtful and exciting writing about poetry and issues in poetry, as well as reviews and interviews. Submit using the form but choose article from the drop down list. As long as it’s well-argued and interesting, we’d love to hear from you.
I’m not a writer!
If you’re a young artist interested in having your art featured in Pomegranate, either as cover art or alongside the poems, we’d love to hear from you. Get in touch with the editors – and include a link to some of your work!
What if I’m not in the UK?
The internet knows no national borders. Show us what young poets are doing in other countries! But English-language only, please. Although between us the editorial team can boast a pretty impressive range of languages, we can’t promise that we’ll know your language and we definitely can’t promise that our readers will know it.
Do you pay for submissions?
Afraid not. You did see the bit where we’re students, right? We can barely afford to eat, let alone pay cash for every poem we use, so everything that appears on this site appears pro bono publico – but if you want us to take it down so you can submit it somewhere that might actually give you some money for it, just drop us a line.
The legal stuff:
All submitted pieces of work remain the legal property of the author and the copyright belongs exclusively to the author. We take a dim view of plagiarists.
Ready?
Okay, submit your work to us.