Poetry submissions are open for Island 171 - due for publication July 2024. 

ELIGIBILITY
 Submissions will be considered from Australian and New Zealand citizens and residents only.

You do not need to be a subscriber to submit. However, we believe that writers ought to be readers of the literary magazines in which their work is published, so for this reason, if your work is published in Island and you are not already a subscriber, your total payment will be less the cost of a 4-issue subscription. For a small not-for-profit literary magazine, this is a necessary step in a long-term strategy. For background information on our fee policy, see here.

TIMELINES & GUIDELINES
  Submissions are open and will close at 5pm AEST on 13 May 2024. 

You may submit a maximum of five poems in any form. If you would like to submit more than one, please submit them all in the one submission and in a single document. Do not make a different submission for each poem. 

We do not accept work previously published in print or online, including on blog 

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please withdraw your poem if it is accepted elsewhere.

All submissions are via Submittable only and your work must be attached as a text document (acceptable file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf).

PROCESS
  You will receive an automated acknowledgement of receipt of your submission. After that, you will generally not hear from the editorial team until after submissions have closed. 

After the closing date, we endeavour to provide a response to all submissions asap.

Once decisions are made, you will be contacted (either via Submittable or direct email) regarding the outcome. We are unable to provide individual feedback for submissions not selected.

   The expectation is that the selected works will require little editing. However, any editing involved will be undertaken by Island’s Fiction Editor, Kate Middleton, in discussion with the author. The author will have final approval of the work.
 

CONTRIBUTOR FEES
Island currently pays $175 per poem*

Fees for print are less the cost of a 4-issue subscription if you are not a current subscriber. For background information on this policy see here.

*In addition to core funding from Arts Tasmania, fees have been supplemented by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

We continually strive to increase author payment rates through grants and fundraising.   

TERMS & CONDITIONS
 A licensing agreement outlining the contributor fee and full terms and conditions will be sent to the author prior to publication; however, please be aware of the following:

Copyright remains with the authors, but writers must give Island exclusive publication rights for the work for three months from publication. Any further reproduction must publicly acknowledge Island as the original publisher.

Writers must guarantee that their work is original, does not plagiarise or infringe the copyright of any other party, and does not breach any other law or ethical principle of publication (e.g. defamation, libel, obscenity).

A draft of the full agreement is available on request from admin@islandmag.com.

Thank you for your interest in publishing with Island!