Submissions Welcome

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Contribute

Spoonful focuses on work primarily from"Stone Soup Poets"--poets that have contributed to our venue at any point in time--but we will be open to outside contributors as well.

Furthermore, Spoonful will maintain loose definition of what constitutes a Stone Soup Poet. It could be a regular open mike contributor at our weekly readings, a former regular or feature who has moved away from the Boston area, someone who is interested in featuring at Stone Soup, or just a regular reader of this journal. Please send with your submissions, a short cover letter detailing your credentials (or lack thereof).

Spoonful is unable to pay for accepted work at this time.


Current Deadline

Having struggled through various setbacks in our schedule, Issue #2 will be finished and out very shortly. On March 4th, we will begin the reading period for Issue #3, which is scheduled to be out by April. The reading period ends on March 15th. It's a small window, but we want to a) get back to our publishing schedule and b) have new work out in time for National Poetry Month. So submit now.

The reading period for the Summer issue (#4) will start on April 5th and end on May 20th.


Submission Guidelines

Spoonful currently accepts by email submission only. Please send 3-5 poems of various forms and length as Word attachments with the word "Submission: Poetry" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry_at_yahoo.com.

Short works of fiction and non-fiction will also be considered. We are particularly looking for essays that touch on Stone Soup's history. Please send an inquiry email describing your prose piece and its length before sending it with the word "Proposed Longer Piece" in the subject heading.

Artwork is also being accepted. Illustrators, photographers, and artists of any kind are encouraged to send up to 10 JPEG submissions to the same address with the words "Submission: Artwork" in the subject heading to stonesouppoetry_at_yahoo.com. All titles (if any) should be part of the piece's JPEG file name.


Important

With your submissions, please also include as an attachment document a 2-5 sentence bio (longer bios will be edited at the editors' discretion and without notice). Also, please include any past publication credits for any and all of the poems submitted.


Website Links/Email

If you have a website that you would like us include in the "Contributor Links" page, please include it separately of your bio note (any references to website links in the bio notes will be removed from them). If you do not have a website to link and would instead like us to link your email address, please specify this in your initial submission.


A Note On Prior Publication

Our editorial eye will be toward unpublished work but we will considered previously published poems on the basis of merit and/or the previous source (a defunct web journal, a prelude to a larger, new project, etc). Due to our fast turnaround time, we do not recommend simultaneous submissions.

We encourage that you be forthright with a poem's publication history, if any. Spoonful retains the right to reject and remove from our site, without notice, works with previous publication credits intentionally omitted by the author.


Holding Work

Due to our small staff and resources, Spoonful generally does not carry over unaccepted work from one reading period to another. In other words, if the work is rejected for the Winter issue, it will normally not be carried over to be considered for the Spring issue. On the rare occasion that a poem is carried over to be considered for the next reading period, the poet will always be notified. Otherwise, unaccepted submissions will be deleted before the next reading period begins. A poet is always welcome to resubmit any previously rejected work to be considered for a new reading period.