Poetryzine Magazine presents the Open call for the Culture&Indentity Anthology by The Poet Magazine
Another challenging subject for our next collection; "Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture."
One question we always ask our poets is; does your culture and heritage influence your writing? Use your skills as a poet to tell us about YOUR OWN particular cultural identity, heritage, nationality or social and ethnic background. What do you love about your culture? What aspects or features of your culture inspire you? How is your culture unique and fascinating? How does your identity relate to your culture? IMPORTANT: identity in this particular anthology is specific to your culture, and not related to your gender.
NOTE: If English isn't your first language, you can also submit poetry in your own native language, but it MUST be accompanied by a translation into English.
Submission Guidelines You can submit up to SIX pieces per themed anthology (but please do not submit more than six). Any style aside from continuous prose. No word counts for poetry, but keep in mind the length if you would like more than one or two considered, as we can't devote too many pages to just one poet. Along with your submission/s, please also send: 1). A writers' biography, in the THIRD PERSON, of between 150 and 500 words, INCLUDING your country of origin AND the city and country in which you currently reside, OR the city and state if in the USA, (however, we don't need your actual mailing address, but our focus is to showcase the diversity of international poets contributing to our collections). Let us know if we can use your biography from a previous contribution. 2). Any contact and social media details you'd also like publishing e.g. website, Amazon author's page, Facebook, Insta, Twitter, Blogs etc. (We will always add your email address for other editors/poets to connect with you - but please let us know if you don't want this adding). For social media, please add your handle (for example.: FB @Robin.Barratt1), and not just your name, as sometimes it takes us ages to find the poet's social media page!
Please try to send all contributions together in a Word or Open Office.doc, AND/OR within the body of the email. Email your submission/s to: Robin@ThePoetMagazine.org with a COPY to RobinBarratt@hotmail.com (as sometimes emails go into spam folders and they can get missed). So we can identify your submission, please mark in the subject line the collection in which you are contributing to, e.g. CULTURE & IDENTITY. We have hundreds of emails every week, and sending everything together in one email makes it much easier for us to look at specific contributions, rather than looking through lots of different emails from the same contributor (which may then accidentality get overlooked). We will, of course, check for typos and spelling (as we are based in the UK, and to retain continuity, we change American spelling into English spelling), but we don't heavily edit a poet's work, so please, as a poet, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure your poem is checked, proofed and ready for publishing, so ONLY send final, print-ready copy.
GENERAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES TO THE POET. VERY IMPORTANT: Our readership and contributors range from age 11 to over 100, and from virtually every culture and country. We respect everyone, so strictly nothing of an adult nature, and no swearing, profanities or obscenities of any kind, or disrespect to other countries or cultures. We at THE POET really do want your words to be read by as many people as possible, so therefore you retain FULL copyright on your work (by submitting, you are giving THE POET permission to publish and/or re-publish your work) and, unlike many other literary platforms and magazines, with THE POET you can re-publish your work elsewhere, and at anytime (but if you can kindly mention first published with THE POET, then great!). Also, we accept previously published material too, but ONLY with details of where and when it was previously published. Please add this to the end of your submission. PLEASE NOTE: we do not operate for profit and so we don't pay for contributions to THE POET and its anthologies, nor send paperback copies out to every contributor - with so many contributions from all over the world, for example; in FRIENDS & FRIENDSHIP there are 248 contributions from 175 poets in 46 countries, and from 26 states in the US, this would be almost impossible to do, and extremely expensive, and we simply couldn't publish if we did. Instead we prefer to focus on promoting and publishing poetry, and showcasing poets worldwide, and virtually all our poets so far (now well over 1200) have been more than happy to contribute under these terms. Please do not submit your work if you are unhappy with these terms. We do, however, send contributors a PDF copy of every anthology they contribute to.
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