Female friends? Emma Press wants poems for new anthology
Do you have poems about female friendship? The Emma Press is looking for poems for a new anthology, to be published in November 2014, and edited by Amy Key. Its website says: “We want the book to reflect the scale of intensity within female friendships and we are looking for poems which capture the defining characteristics of this frequently-overlooked relationship: the intimate and the casual, th...
5th December 2013
Anthology seeks to reveal the 'real lives' of Muslim women
An anthology of poetry and short stories that aims to portray the “real lives” of Muslim women, including subjects such as forced and arranged marriage, female genital mutilation and the economic inequality of women is seeking submissions irrespective of age, gender, race, religion or sexual orie...
5th July 2013
Canal laureate Jo Bell wants your water lines
The canal laureate, Jo Bell, has issued a plea for poems about canals – “or anything canal-related” – that could appear on a canal poetry website, or even feature in a future anthology. She said: “...
5th July 2013
On your bike: cycling poems wanted for Yorkshire anthology
Poems about bicycles and cycling are wanted for an anthology that will celebrate the Tour de France Grand Depart coming to Yorkshire next year. Otley Word Feast wants poems as soon as possible, wi...
9th June 2013
Offa's Press wants Shropshire poems for anthology
A publisher is looking for poems about Shropshire for an anthology that will include "heritage" poems by AE Housman and Wilfred Owen as well as contemporary voices. Poets interested in submitting w...
3rd June 2013
Wanted: short poems about ads for Red Squirrel anthology
A forthcoming poetry anthology, ‘Double Bill: poems inspired by popular culture’, due out in 2014 from Red Squirrel Press, is looking for poems inspired by adverts. Poems can be up to 10 lines long...
31st May 2013
'Mildly erotic' anthology issues strict rules on metre
The editors of an anthology of “mildly erotic” verse are calling for submissions, with no limit placed on the number of poems you can send, but with the emphasis very definitely on metre. The Emma...
27th February 2013
Going underground: call for submissions to anniversary anthology
Small poetry press Fire Hazard is calling for submissions to a new anthology, Underground, to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the world's first underground railway in London in 1863. T...
7th February 2013
Online project offers poets a new platform
Poets are being invited to submit their work to an online poetry project which is offering to publish poems and profiles, an interview, and possible inclusion in a printed anthology. Each month neo...
3rd February 2013
Chance to put yourself on creative map of the health of the north
Poet Char March is working with NHS research policy makers to put together a creative map of the Health of the North – and is looking for health poems to put on the map.
She said: “As usual wit...
30th January 2013
Butcher's Dog poetry magazine in call for submissions
A new magazine that has been set up by poets in the north-east is looking for submissions for its second issue. Butcher’s Dog, published twice a year, is supported by New Writing North, and its fir...
27th January 2013
