About the Beatnik: Submission Guidelines/ Who We Are

 

The Beatnik features poetry and short prose pieces by one poet per week all year round (unless we get no submissions). At the present moment, publication will be at the weekend or sometime on Monday, so if you're interested, and why wouldn't you be, check then. We will also be publishing reviews and notifications on a new, separate page as and when we receive them - as soon as I have set the page up. All correspondence should come via email at bruce.hodder@hotmail.co.uk . I would like to accept submissions via land mail but I don’t want to put my address here. If you know someone who knows it, however, be my guest.

Response time varies but the editor won’t be able to enter into correspondence with poets/ authors about the progress of their submission. Please be patient, and if you need to withdraw anything while you’re waiting just drop me a line.

Anybody who ignores this and writes me an email about their submission before I've had the chance to read it will have their poems returned. Sorry if this sounds hard, but I have a life and you have to understand it doesn't centre on your writing, as grateful as I am to receive it.

I don’t mind publishing material that somebody else has already published. The poetry world is a big one, and audiences for most magazines and websites are small; so in all likelihood readers won’t have seen the material in question anyway.

As for the writing itself, just send what you have; I’m not looking for a particular style. And whether or not you send an author bio is up to you. I don’t read them personally, but I’ll happily publish them along with the poems if I get them.

If I do accept your work I will write and ask you for a photo to go along with it. Usually the author sends a picture of himself or herself, but if you want to send a picture of your family, or Diesel the dog, or a nice view from your back door at sunset, you’re more than free to do so.