whiptail has published its final issue of 2023. We look forward to reading your work again in 2024!
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Reading schedule for 2024:
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New to whiptail?
New submitters should make themselves familiar with whiptail by reading our About page and at least a few issues prior to sending their poems. Please take note of the general feel of the journal and the careful curation of poems chosen with attention to musicality, word choice, feeling, and expression. Then send us something you feel is honed and truly special. Give us goosebumps, bewilder us, wow us. (Also, those newer to one-line poems may wish to check out our Lizard Lounge and Contributor Interviews, which are filled with reference information.)
Our selection process:
The selection process is held in the manner of a contest, conducted in multiple rounds of voting, and is semi-blinded. Visit our statistics page.
Presentation:
whiptail is a digital journal. Periodically, we intend to draw selections from the digital issues for a print anthology. Starting with Issue 8, poets who are published in whiptail will have a guaranteed spot with at least one poem in the next whiptail print anthology.
New submitters should make themselves familiar with whiptail by reading our About page and at least a few issues prior to sending their poems. Please take note of the general feel of the journal and the careful curation of poems chosen with attention to musicality, word choice, feeling, and expression. Then send us something you feel is honed and truly special. Give us goosebumps, bewilder us, wow us. (Also, those newer to one-line poems may wish to check out our Lizard Lounge and Contributor Interviews, which are filled with reference information.)
Our selection process:
The selection process is held in the manner of a contest, conducted in multiple rounds of voting, and is semi-blinded. Visit our statistics page.
Presentation:
whiptail is a digital journal. Periodically, we intend to draw selections from the digital issues for a print anthology. Starting with Issue 8, poets who are published in whiptail will have a guaranteed spot with at least one poem in the next whiptail print anthology.
What to submit:
We will consider found poems that take on their own meaning and veer significantly from the source work. Please provide source info and screenshots or erasures of the areas where you selected your choice words.
- Individual poems - Please submit 4-5 one-line poems of any variety, including monostich haiku, senryu, one-line tanka, poetic fragments, one-line micropoems, or lyrical lines. Be creative: Poems may be one word in length up to a column’s width, written horizontally, vertically, or as a concrete poem* in any shape a line may take (e.g. circle, squiggle, arrow, square, etc . . .) For vertical one-liners we are looking for poems with ONLY one word or part of a word per line. Such poems must work as a single-line poem with the display enhancing the meaning. For an example, see the concrete haiku by m shane pruett in Issue 2.
- Sequences and multi-ku - Please submit up to 5 sequences and/or multi-ku comprised of a maximum of five single-line poems. Sequences should link and shift between each individual poem (or poet, if collaborating), and not have obvious repetition throughout the sequence or title. Additionally, sequences should travel. Feel free to submit any format of sequencing you like. Multi-ku should not link and shift. Titles for sequences and multi-ku are optional.
- Submissions may be a mix of any of the above, up to 5 total.
- Or send us something we’ve never seen in one line!
- Cover Art - Please submit 3 -5 pieces and you may include a link to your website if you’d like us to link back.
We will consider found poems that take on their own meaning and veer significantly from the source work. Please provide source info and screenshots or erasures of the areas where you selected your choice words.
All submitted work must be your original and previously unpublished work. This means poems have not appeared on social media or personal sites or blogs as we want to be the first venue to present your poem to the public (closed/private workshops are fine). This also means the work was written by you and not in any part by any AI program. Include your name as you wish it to appear in publication.
How to submit:
Submit your poems via the Google form using the Submit button below.
*FOR CONCRETE POEMS, complete the Google form and type out the poem in one text box, then email images as attachments in jpeg or png in 600 DPI to whiptailjournal@gmail.com. Please use a transparent background and use Merriweather, Garamond, or a similar font. FOR COVER ART, follow the above but place titles in place of “poem” in the form.
FOR SEQUENCES AND MULTI-KU, follow the same steps but type title in place of poem and email your sequence (paste into body of email for simple formatting as well as in addition to any images you may send of any special formatting).
Submit your poems via the Google form using the Submit button below.
*FOR CONCRETE POEMS, complete the Google form and type out the poem in one text box, then email images as attachments in jpeg or png in 600 DPI to whiptailjournal@gmail.com. Please use a transparent background and use Merriweather, Garamond, or a similar font. FOR COVER ART, follow the above but place titles in place of “poem” in the form.
FOR SEQUENCES AND MULTI-KU, follow the same steps but type title in place of poem and email your sequence (paste into body of email for simple formatting as well as in addition to any images you may send of any special formatting).
Response time:
No simultaneous submissions, please. We will respond to all submissions. We aim to do so within 4-6 weeks; please check your emails. Also, double-check that there are no typos in your email address when you submit.
No simultaneous submissions, please. We will respond to all submissions. We aim to do so within 4-6 weeks; please check your emails. Also, double-check that there are no typos in your email address when you submit.
Link will go live when the submission window reopens.
Rights and terms:
whiptail retains the right to publish your work on our website and social media accounts. All rights return to the author upon publication. whiptail reserves the right to reuse work that has appeared in the journal, with proper citation, in any future print or electronic collections or anthologies. If the author wishes to later republish the work, whiptail requests that you cite the journal as the venue of first publication.
whiptail does not publish anything racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or the like. Don’t send it. No violence or graphic death; death as a topic is fine in an abstract memorial sense (e.g. grief, longing, etc.). No pornographic imagery; we’re not interesting in publishing it.
Payment:
whiptail is a non-paying market.
Accolades:
whiptail considers all of the poems we publish for awards such as The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem, Best of the Net, The Pushcart Prize, Red Moon Anthology, The Haiku Reader, and more.
whiptail retains the right to publish your work on our website and social media accounts. All rights return to the author upon publication. whiptail reserves the right to reuse work that has appeared in the journal, with proper citation, in any future print or electronic collections or anthologies. If the author wishes to later republish the work, whiptail requests that you cite the journal as the venue of first publication.
whiptail does not publish anything racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or the like. Don’t send it. No violence or graphic death; death as a topic is fine in an abstract memorial sense (e.g. grief, longing, etc.). No pornographic imagery; we’re not interesting in publishing it.
Payment:
whiptail is a non-paying market.
Accolades:
whiptail considers all of the poems we publish for awards such as The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem, Best of the Net, The Pushcart Prize, Red Moon Anthology, The Haiku Reader, and more.
