Text Box: Submissions to The Press
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Acceptance Mark
Text Box: Call for submissions to the Press:
If you are a Canadian, a poet … and you do live readings … 
            you are invited to make a submission to Big Pond Rumour. 
Our focus is Canadian poetry.

Criteria for Submission: 
You must be a performing artist and a previously published Canadian poet! 
            That means you will have some experience in reading your work aloud to a live audience. 
You also have published at least one book or chapbook, 
            or you have poems in at least 20 journals or periodicals. 

Guidelines for Submission:
Send an email query with a sample of 10 poems in the body of the email. 
Be sure to clearly state in the email header “submission for the press” .
            This will alert us you are seeking book publication…
            Otherwise, your submission will be looked at as a submission to the Zine.
If we like what we read we will contact you to get more information.
We may ask to see a CD or book manuscript. 

Checklist for Submissions:
a note providing your name, address, phone number and a working email address.
a Curriculum Vitae (resume) which details your publications and your live readings. 

Response Time: 
Please allow 3—4 months for a review of your submission.




Notice: We no longer accept submissions by snail mail.
You can submit by Fax (519) 853-8679 or email editor@big-pond-rumour.com


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