For poetry: You may submit up to three poems with the understanding that one will be selected. We are now using Submittable and offering both *gratis and tip jar options. Fees collected via the tip jar go directly to pay the expenses of the journal.
For those who may have visual impairment and find Submittable difficult to work with, you may email your submission HERE.
Consider that we're not looking for poems that are overly instructive. Moreover, poems that effectively bridge the divide between the lyrical and the narrative are preferable and most likely to be selected. We especially want poems that are accessible enough to be shared even by those who may not have known they needed poetry until they stumbled on your work. The poems we most gravitate towards are those that reveal what's personally at stake for the speaker of the poem. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that seperate us.
Furthermore, it's important that your poem fits on a single sheet of paper given the format of Rise Up.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if a submission has been accepted elsewhere.
A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of poems that have appeared only in print journals in order to give them a new life on the Internet.
*When we reach the month's limit on gratis submissions, only the tip jar will be available until the following month.
Because Resistance is Fertile
For essays: You may submit a single essay with a 2000 word max. We are now using Submittable and offering both *gratis and tip jar options. Fees collected via the tip jar go directly to pay the expenses of the journal.
For those who may have visual impairment and find Submittable difficult to work with, you may email your submission HERE.
We feature personal essays about one's political life or political essays about one's personal life. We're looking, in particular, for essays that detail the ways that policy or the threat of policy affect an individual in our current climate. We are not looking for repurposed research papers or opinion pieces. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that seperate us.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if your piece has been accepted elsewhere.
A note on re-prints: We will accept reprints of personal essays that have appeared only in print journals in order to give them a new life on the Internet.
*When we reach the month's limit on gratis submissions, only the tip jar will be available until the following month.
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