Submissions

UPDATE November 2009: VERSE is currently closed to submissions. Check back in spring/summer 2010 for the next reading period.

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Verse will re-open to submissions in summer 2009. In keeping with the magazine’s new annual format (the current issue is 450 pages long, with 15 contributors), our submissions policy has changed.

You can submit to the print magazine or to the Verse site.

Submissions for the print magazine should be chapbook-length (20-40 pages), in any genre or combination of genres--poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, criticism, interviews, journals/notebooks, images, etc. Everything in the submission must be unpublished.

Submissions for the Verse site should consist of 3-5 poems or a book/music/film/game review.

Submission period: July 15 to November 14 (postmark).

Submissions received outside the submission period will be recycled or returned unread.

We will respond to submissions on a rolling basis, beginning in August. We plan to notify everyone within 10 weeks. (Acceptances might take slightly longer.)

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but for submissions to the print magazine, you must withdraw your entire submission if something in your submission is accepted elsewhere. If work is withdrawn from consideration, no substitutions will be allowed. For submissions to the VERSE site, you may withdraw individual pieces.

Please include a SASE for response. If you want your work returned, include sufficient postage on the SASE.

Reading fee (for submissions to the print magazine): $10 (cash or check/money order to VERSE).

Everyone submitting work to the print magazine will receive a free copy of Verse (cover price $12-15).

All contributors to the print magazine will receive at least $200 (possibly more) plus two copies and a one-year subscription.

There is no reading fee for submissions to the Verse site and no payment for contributors to the Verse site.

All submissions to the print magazine will also be considered for the VERSE site, so if a portfolio isn't selected for the print magazine, individual pieces still might be accepted for the VERSE site.

Mail all submissions to:

VERSE
English Department
University of Richmond
Richmond VA 23173