Prairie Home Magazine is an online collection of poetry that will appear on the first of every other month (January, March, May, July, September, and November) via our website and social media.
We read submissions on a rolling basis and will present a select number of submitted poems and pieces in the two-month span leading up to our next issue that we feel spoke to us.
Submissions are now open for our November 2024 issue and will close on October 31, 2024.
We appreciate poems that evoke emotions and captivate us with vivid imagery, strong emotional expression, and creative language use with a generally straightforward, humble delivery: think Tracy K. Smith, Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, and Billy Collins. We tend to favor concise, short, and impactful poems or prose that deliver an element of surprise.
Established and new poets are encouraged to submit. Please, no long poems. We will read longer pieces but prefer a poem or piece that will fit on one page.
Please submit previously unpublished work only that has appeared elsewhere on the internet or in print.
Please send us no more than five poems or prose pieces pasted in the body of an email with the Subject Line POETRY SUBMISSION, preceded by a cover letter. We respect special formatting our writers send us, but don’t force others to obey to any special formatting for poetry or prose pieces! If your poem or piece requires special formatting, you may then, feel free to include an attachment. Please also include a bio written in the third person.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but not preferred. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please inform us immediately. We aim to respond to all submissions within five days of receipt.
If your work is accepted at Prairie Home, you agree to grant us First North American Serial Rights, all archival rights, plus the rights to reprint in any future anthologies. Upon publication, all rights revert back to the author. You agree that if your poem/s subsequently appears elsewhere (in print or online), you will give credit to Prairie Home.
Submissions and other correspondence should be sent to: prairiehomemag@gmail.com.
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