Poetry Guidelines:

Interested parties should submit 5 to 8 poems for consideration via email to OSpoetry@yahoo.com. Please do not send attachments or your submission will be deleted. Please do not send in less than five poems or your submission will not be reviewed. Please place your first and last name in the subject line. Submissions sent without your first and last name in the subject line may go unnoticed. No simultaneous submissions please. No submissions or poems that have been previously published. We consider “published” is published. This includes small, private editions, and even poems previously posted on blogs and personal web sites. Allow four to six weeks for your submission to be reviewed by our poetry editors and responded to. If you do not hear from one of our editors by then, feel free to email us again with an inquiry.

Poets selected for the Cover:

Poets selected to be featured on the cover will be asked for other materials including high-end photography and will be interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. The editors will be selecting two poets a year for the cover. The other writers featured in each issue will not be asked for photography starting with the fall issue of 2009.

Art Guidelines:

Artists featured are by invitation only. We scope out new artists through Twitter, Facebook, DeviantArt, Myspace, ImageKind and Flickr among other sites. We will find you.

Deadlines:

Please just send in your work accepted as you finish putting together your materials requested.

Starting in the fall of 2009, we will be producing from 6 to 8 issues a year. We are unable to offer contributor hard copies because we do not advertise or charge fees of any kind and although O&S is available through amazon.com most of our readers opt to view the entire issue online instead of purchasing a copy.

Note to Poets: By accepting Oranges & Sardines offer to publish your poems, you agree to acknowledge Oranges & Sardines as first publisher in future reprints of books, anthologies, web site publications, podcasts, radio, etc. Copyright reverts back to authors upon publication. Artists published on O&S are granting us the right to publish their images in the issue where they appear.