Guidelines

 

~ We are now accepting for submissions until November 20,2021, for the December Journal.

• While we encourage rhymed verse in traditional forms, we also accept finely wrought free verse.
• Send up to three poems, preferably unpublished.
• Please send your poems in a word document (not a pdf) and attach it to your email. Include your name and a fifty-word biography, inside the word document. 
• Previously published poems are acceptable.
• Simultaneous submissions, with notification if a poem is accepted elsewhere, are acceptable.
• No translations, please.
• Send your poems to orchardspoetrysubmissions@gmail.com
• Expect a reply within three months.
• Please do not revise your poem or your biography after we have accepted it.

The Orchards Poetry Journal is published in June and December.

orchardspoetrysubmissions@gmail.com