Submissions
Poems & Paraboles is a collaborative literary publication devoted to poetry, storytelling, and fables that transfigure the ordinary. Poets and storytellers are invited to submit their work, selected pieces will be posted throughout the year.
We publish work that illuminates, awakens, or opens a small window toward wonder. Some pieces are quiet. Some are bold. Some carry a moral thread, while others wander into the mysterious and ethereal.
Poems & Paraboles requests first serial rights. First serial rights grant a publication the opportunity to publish a work first before it goes out elsewhere. All individual rights revert back to you, the author, upon publication.
At its core poetry is a creative-expressive art form. We publish original work made by real people—for this reason we have an Anti A.I policy. By submitting your work, you affirm you are the sole author.
Submissions are always open but please submit only one poem per month.
Submission Guidelines
Submit unpublished work that hasn’t been published anywhere else
Edit and polish your poem before submitting
Give your poem a good title—a poem’s title will be the title of its post
Upload only one poem (pdf, doc, or docx)
For simplicity purposes, please title your document the same title as your poem and include your name
Send in your best work
Poems & Paraboles envisions publishing annual anthologies, in print as full-length poetry collections. Poems that are posted and featured throughout the year will be considered for the anthology.
