Poetry | Single Poems (One Week Response Option)

Premium Poetry Submission Guidelines

This is the Premium Poetry submission category, where you can receive an extremely quick, roughly one-week response & one of our books mailed to your U.S. home. At Driftwood Press, we understand that an artist's time is precious, and we are happy to provide this service for our submitters. The submission fee does not guarantee that your piece will be accepted. We judge each poem fairly and with the same reverence we would want our own work to be judged with. Finally, we thank you for choosing this option of submission. We are truly excited to find the greatest poetry in the most effective, timely way possible. Poems accepted before October of each year will appear in the coming year's anthology.

• You can submit up to five poems. Please—and we can't stress this enough—make for sure you include all poems in a single submission.
• Whether you are seasoned or a beginner brimming with poetic inspiration, we call upon your abilities. At Driftwood, we are devoted to finding poetry of the highest caliber; we seek poetry of literary importance.
• Some of our favorite poets are Diane Seuss, Traci Brimhall, Tracy K. Smith, Ocean Vuong, Hanif Abdurriqib, and Sharon Olds. 
• Overly romanticized, antiquated, or colloquial poetry is not our focus.
• Experimental forms and content that reveal your unique style are welcomed.
• Poets can submit up to five poems, each being no longer than 60 lines.
• When submitting, please send all poems in a single document.
• We read all submissions blind, so please remove any identifying information from your manuscript.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please update your submission to "withdrawn" within Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.