Submission Guidelines
Reading Periods
For the Summer Issue (published in June),
submissions are open April 1-30.
For the Fall Issue (published in September),
submissions are open July 1-31.
For the Winter Issue (published in December),
submissions are open October 1-31.
For the Spring Issue (published in March),
submissions are open January 1-31.
What We're Looking For
** Absolutely no artificial intelligence (AI) bot generated, conceived, assisted, composed, or etc. poems will be accepted.**
Tanasi River Review ONLY accepts POETRY.
We are looking for contemporary narrative work, rich in language, rooted in place. Tanasi means "meeting place". The intersection of people and nature.
Work that requires a lot of special formatting/colors/symbols may be a hard sell (I need to be able to copy/paste this into the blog pretty easily). Same with copious end rhyme.
Because we do not yet have past issues for reference the kind of poetry we're after, read Ada Limon, Louise Gluck, Jane Kenyon, William Stafford, Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser, Luci Shaw, Linda Hogan, A. R. Ammons, Stanley Kunitz, Naomi Shihab Nye, W. S. Merwin.
What we're NOT looking for: Politics, violence, or graphic work. We will not consider work that is racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, ableist, or any other discrimination.
Guidelines For Submissions
Maximum line length is 60 lines.
Paste your poem(s) in the body of the email.
No cover letter is necessary. But feel free to tell what the weather is like, birds you're seeing, flowers, your current favorite song, etc.
Please provide a short bio including any social media/website links less than 75 words.
No previously published poetry.
All poems will be published digitally in our blog and collected into our quarterly editions. Upon acceptance, Tanasi River Review will acquire First Electronic Rights and First Serial Rights.
All rights revert to the author after publication.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
There is no payment for contributors at this time.
Response time will be roughly a month from submission.
All submissions will receive a response, though please understand I cannot personalize them.
Submissions received outside of the submission windows will be ignored.
Only one submission allowed per submission period.
Send 1-3 poems to tnriverreview (at) gmail.com with SUBMISSION in the subject heading.
