poetry

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (Inaugural Autumn Issue 2026)

updated: 
Saturday, June 13, 2026 - 7:23am
The Pocket Poet
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Call for Submissions: The Pocket Poet (Inaugural Autumn Issue 2026)

We are thrilled to announce the launch of The Pocket Poet, a new international poetry journal dedicated to powerful poems in small spaces. We are officially opening submissions for our Inaugural Autumn 2026 Issue and invite poets from every corner of the world to share their work with us. What We SeekWe are looking for original, engaging poetry that thrives in brevity. This includes: 

  • Haiku, Senryu, & Tanka

 

  • Micro Poetry & Short Free Verse

 

  • Short Prose Poems

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE of June 30 for "The Intimacies of Kith: Collaborative Poetry Scholarship and Practice Between Asian North America and Southeast Asia”, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Oct 2- Oct 4 2026

updated: 
Friday, June 12, 2026 - 8:32pm
Samuel Caleb Wee, Nanyang Technological University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The Intimacies of Kith seeks to bring together scholars who are also practitioners of poetry from Asian North American and Southeast Asian communities. Our goal is to create a shared space for poet-scholars to engage one another directly, creating opportunities for sustained dialogue across geographic and disciplinary boundaries.

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 10:45am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2026

November 5-7, 2026 at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD

Deadline: 6/30/2026

 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | September 2026 Issue

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 4:12pm
Mini Plays Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 31, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — Mini Plays Review | September 2026 Issue 

Theme: Echoes of the Digital Age

This issue explores how human connection, conflict, identity, and memory are being rewritten in a hyper-connected yet deeply isolated world. We are looking for sharp, short scripts that capture the friction between our physical lives and our digital existence.

Subthemes for Submission:

  • 1. Phantom Vibrations: The psychological weight, anxiety, or obsession of waiting for a notification that never comes.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 3:49pm
The Soliloquist Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 10, 2026

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Soliloquist Journal ( https://thesoliloquistmagazine.my.canva.site/#submit )
Theme: The Architecture of Solitude

Deadline: July 10, 2026

Publication: July 15, 2026

Solitude is rarely a vast, empty space—it is built. It has walls we erect to protect our innermost selves, windows through which we watch a noisy world, drafty corners of loneliness, and sacred sanctuaries of deliberate peace.

Proposals for edited volume on 21st cent. Women Poets and Resistance

updated: 
Monday, June 8, 2026 - 12:18pm
Esther Sánchez-PArdo / U.Complutense
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Proposals for edited book on 21st cent. Women Poets and Resistance

We –a group of scholars and poets– are assembling a collective book on 21st century Women's Poetries, which will be submitted as an edited collection for one of the series at Palgrave Macmillan. Two of our contributors fell down and we are trying to find a couple of good proposals which can be a good fit and complete our collection.

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism

updated: 
Thursday, June 4, 2026 - 6:49pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Eco-Poetics and Environmental Artivism
A Transdisciplinary Conference
July 16-17, 2026
July 16: In person participation at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park (and online)
July 17: Fully online
Conference Page: 
https://labrc.co.uk/2026/01/21/ecopoetics2026/

Fees** (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)
**Prices exclude Eventbrite fees

Call for Presentations:

Special Issue of Studia Neophilologica on Thomas Lovell Beddoes

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 8:04am
Andrew Hodgson (University of Birmingham)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 2, 2026

2028 will mark the two hundredth anniversary of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s completion of the first version of his masterpiece Death’s Jest-Book. This special issue of Studia Neophilologica, coinciding also with the centenary of a journal that has been the home of many significant essays on Beddoes’s writings, will offer new readings and accounts of Beddoes’s life, work, and reputation.

Contributions are invited for essays between 5 and 8,000 words on all aspects of Beddoes’s career. Topics might include:

 

Christian Writers Conference: Restoring Creativity

updated: 
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 - 5:20am
Grove City College / Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 11, 2027

Christian Writers Conference 2027 
“Restoring Creativity”
 
 
April 9-10, 2027, Grove City College, PA 

The Eastern Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature 
and Third Annual meeting of the Holy Moot 

Featuring Daniel McInerny, philosopher of art, novelist, and dramatist 

 

Call for Papers 

 

LAST CALL - Galway Kinnell at 100 - PAMLA Seattle 2026

updated: 
Thursday, May 28, 2026 - 7:49pm
Dr. Ariana Lyriotakis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

PAMLA Seattle (2026) - November 12-15, all in-person conference 

 

2027 is the centenary year of the birth of US American poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, Galway Kinnell (1927-2014). This session seeks to celebrate his life and legacy while pointing to future thematic and prosodic engagement in Kinnellian studies. Papers offering approaches to any aspect of Kinnell’s work are invited and most welcome.

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Call for Papers: The Erotic Today

updated: 
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 - 2:26pm
Flatus Vocis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

The erotic is a point of infinite signification, a navel in humanity’s symbolic circuit. However, despite its resistance to formalization, it is always in the process of not being written. As Octavio Paz insists, the erotic is a metaphor indelible to the human. As such, it is unsurprising that the manifestations of the erotic in subjective embodied experience are variable and correspond to equally plural treatments of it across the academic panorama. This diverse archive is bound by certain distinguishable threads, in terms of the potentiality of the erotic, its singular relation to language, and to the sphere of sexuality.

Graduate Conference: In-Between Wor(l)ds: Liminality, Poetry and Performance

updated: 
Sunday, May 24, 2026 - 8:43pm
University of Minnesota
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 7, 2026

In-Between Wor(l)ds: Liminality, Poetry and Performance

Extended Deadine: June 7th! 

Call for Papers – GNSD Graduate Conference, University of Minnesota
Nov. 6 - 7th, 2026 (in person)
Keynote by Adeena Karasick

Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal (ISPI 2026 conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - 11:03am
International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Futuring Poetic Inquiry: A Return and Renewal10th International Symposium for Poetic Inquiry (ISPI) 
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
October 8-12, 2026  Proposal Submissions Due June 1, 2026 - EXTENDEDTo submit a proposal: Please visit the ISPI website for more information and to submit a proposal: ISPI website  

STILL, A RACE FOR THEORY: THE INFUSIVE PRAXTICE OF BLACK AND BROWN POET-SCHOLARS

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:34pm
Dr. Kendra N. Bryant Aya / BOMBS Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

In April 2026, I attended Shauna M. Morgan, Angel Dye, and Madison (Mocha) Hunter's College Language Association panel discussion: “Scripting Soul Work: The Infusive Praxis of Poet-Scholars.” In their talk, each panelist discussed—in prose like fashion—her relationship with her creative and scholarly self, and, in the spirit of Barbara Christian's 1987 “The Race for Theory,” they argued the significance of creative writing to Black and brown folk scholarship and being, which they supported with a reading of their selected poetic works.

Hand to Mouth: Southern Writers on Poverty

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 1:23pm
Dr. Monic Ductan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Poverty in the South is too often discussed at a distance. Flattened into stereotype, policy language, nostalgia, or shame, it is rarely given the complexity, dignity, and literary force it deserves.

Hand to Mouth seeks new work by Southern writers whose lives have been shaped by poverty. We are interested in writing that reflects on poverty as lived experience, inherited condition, social structure, class passage, stigma, kinship, resourcefulness, hunger, desire, labor, and survival.

Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

updated: 
Thursday, May 7, 2026 - 12:40pm
Editors: Quraysh Ali Lansana (Applied Assoc. Prof. of English & Creative Writing, University of Tulsa), Brandy Thomas Wells (Assoc. Prof. of History, Oklahoma State University), Autumn Brown (Asst. Prof, Oral History Research, Oklahoma State University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 15, 2026

Call for Submissions: Invisibility & The Raft of Hope: A 75th-Anniversary Reflection on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

Deadline: June 15, 2026

Contact: qal0815@utulsa.edu

Embodied Aesthetics: The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 - 4:28pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Embodied Aesthetics:

The Body and Embodiment in the Arts and Arts-Based Research

(A Transdisciplinary Conference June 20-21, 2026)

 

When/Where:

June 20: at the Association of Jungian Analysts’ Centre in London and Online

June 21: Online only

 

Fees (for both attendees and presenters):
£180 (In person participation)
£100 (Online participation)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS — THE ANTONYM ONLINE

updated: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 - 12:42am
The Antonym
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

Languages travel. We are here to listen.
The Antonym Online is now open for submissions.
We invite translators from across the world to bring voices across linguistic borders and into English. We are committed to publishing works that carry the texture, rhythm, and cultural nuance of their original language while finding new life in translation.
What we are looking for:
Translated short stories
Translated poetry
Translated non-fiction
We accept translations from any language into English.
Submission Guidelines:

Special Issue: Contemporary Ekphrasis in British and Irish Innovative Poetry

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:50pm
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 5, 2026

Ekphrasis, the verbal representation of visual representation, is one of art’s oldest preoccupations. Over the past decade, we have seen a rise in British and Irish innovative ekphrastic poetry and visual art that responds to poetry. Concurrently, there has been a new wave of interest in the efficacy and function of ekphrasis, that focuses on its role as a type of creative practice and a way of thinking through aesthetic judgement. Despite all this activity, no formal consideration of the field of ekphrasis itself has emerged. Ekphrasis underwent a paradigmatic shift in which it was no longer defined by its ‘paragonal’ energy.

EATS6: Arts and Technology in East Asian Translation Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:21pm
Arizona State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 31, 2026

The East Asian Translation Studies conference aims to provide a platform for translators and researchers working in the East Asian context to exchange ideas on issues related to translation. 

Previous EATS conferences have been held at the University of East Anglia, UK (2014); Meiji University, Japan (2016); Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2019); Université Paris Cité, France (2022); and the University of Queensland, Australia (2024). They have centered on questions of the circulation of translation within East Asia, constructing/deconstructing East Asia, changing identities of East Asia observed in translation, universals in East Asian translation, and negotiating the borders of translation and East Asia.

Tradition and Innovation in African American Poetry

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Session Abstract: The genre of African American poetry has a long legacy of both preserving tradition and evolving to suit current times and places. This session invites discussion of the defining features that have been maintained over time as well as patterns of bold experimentation. Rather than seeing tradition and innovation as opposing aesthetic directions, this session hopes to examine ways they have co-existed in this genre and been mutually fruitful. 

T. S. Eliot Studies Annual Volume 9

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:04pm
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 20, 2026

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Call for Papers for Volume 9

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for the critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his letters, critical volumes of his complete prose, the 2015 edition of his complete poems, and the forthcoming critical edition of his plays.

All critical approaches are welcome, as are essays pertaining to any aspect of Eliot’s work as a poet, critic, playwright, editor, foremost exemplar of modernism, or his influence on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture.

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