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Submission details

Free submissions, usually open in August each year.
Follow @taipeipoetrycollective on instagram for future open windows.

TPCReview showcases the future visions of our global community of writers. We want poetry that revels in being on the page, that seeks to live larger than the page. We want fun, we want serious, we want the everyday, and we want strange.

We like poems grounded in places, like Taipei for example (like Taipei, specifically). We like poems that express hope, are embodied, take pleasure in the ordinary, embrace the weird. We like poems where its clear every word is considered. We like ’em short, we like ’em longer, we like ’em detailed, we like ’em polished. We encourage submissions from poets who pay attention.

We welcome all forms of poetry: blank verse, traditional, experimental, prose poetry, erasure poetry, concrete poetry, found poetry.

What we want from you
– 3 poems max (no more than 8 pages)
– Please include your entire submission in one file
– Blind review (do not add name to doc)
– Simultaneous submissions: Accepted, but please let us know ASAP if work is accepted elsewhere
– Resubmits: Not accepted, unless we explicitly ask for you to edit and resubmit
– Review period: 6-12 weeks
– Payment: Currently we cannot offer payment, but we will offer promotion on our social pages
– Nominations: Pushcart prize, Best of the Net
– Geographic eligibility requirements: none for submission
– Language: English, but glimpses of other languages are accepted when used with consideration
– Translations: Accepted, but only if you have consent from the original poet/publisher
*If your name is added to the doc or you do not comply with these specifications we don’t read you.

How we want it
When our submission window is open we will share a form here for you to fill out. Please upload your full submission (all your poems) in a single file
Send: .doc, .docx, .odt, or .pdf. We prefer .docx. if possible (.pdf is recommended in addition to the original file only if the submission contains special formatting)

Technical stuff
If your work is accepted by TPCReview, we ask for First Electronic Publication Rights, along with non-exclusive Electronic Archival Rights (this means we can showcase your work indefinitely on our site). These rights revert back to the author upon publication, and the author always retains the ownership of their work. If you republish the work elsewhere, all we ask is that you please credit TPCReview as the first home to your poem(s).

What we don’t want
– This should go without saying, but please don’t send us any nasty hateful shit, this isn’t the place for that
– AI work: No work that is written or assisted by AI writing programs will be accepted (this does not refer to spell-check, grammar-check, thesaurus, or prompt generators, where the writer is doing the writing)
– Previously published work: Not accepted (including work published on social media)

Got questions? Email taipeipoetrycollective@gmail.com with the subject line: ‘TPCReview Submission Question’

Thank you and happy submitting!