The small details:
All submitted work must be your original and previously unpublished work. This means poems that have not appeared on social media, as we want to be the first venue to present your poem to the public. Include your name as you wish it to appear in publication.
If you have any questions about the types of poems we are looking for, please see the resources at the bottom of our About page or read our previous issues.
No simultaneous submissions, please.
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. Copyright reverts back to the author upon 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.
Presentation:
whiptail aims to publish 60 poems per issue (digital). Biannually, we intend to draw selections from the digital issues for a print anthology.
All submitted work must be your original and previously unpublished work. This means poems that have not appeared on social media, as we want to be the first venue to present your poem to the public. Include your name as you wish it to appear in publication.
If you have any questions about the types of poems we are looking for, please see the resources at the bottom of our About page or read our previous issues.
No simultaneous submissions, please.
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. Copyright reverts back to the author upon 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.
Presentation:
whiptail aims to publish 60 poems per issue (digital). Biannually, we intend to draw selections from the digital issues for a print anthology.
