General Guidelines

Submissions are considered on an ongoing basis for publication in the e-newsletter.

• Months of publication will be March, June, September and December until further notice.
• The due dates for submissions for each issue is by the 1st day of the publication month (e.g. March 1).
• Please keep articles to 500 words or less.
• Please credit any of your previously published material.
• If a particular web site was of value to your writing, please identify it and provide its URL. If you do mention a website, please check, before you cite it, to be certain that the site is still active.

Letters to the editor

• Priority will be given to letters of 200 words or fewer.
• Please keep the topic relevant to something appearing in the newsletter or to the poetry world at large.

Notice of events

• Please include the following details:
  • Name of event
  • Date(s)
  • Location
  • Sponsoring organization/person
  • Brief description of no more than 36 words
  • Point of contact with name, email address and/or phone number that will be published
• Requests by outside groups and organizations to use the WPA newsletter and website for event notices will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The WPA is a non-profit service organization devoted to the interests of poetry and the poetry community. Please read our mission statement. For-profit events for private gain will not be considered for the newsletter. The editor will not respond to any queries about the listed events themselves.

General Information

Priority will be given to time-sensitive material, to submissions from the membership (especially those persons designated for their area's news), and to articles solicited expressly by the editor for a particular issue.

At least two poems but no more than four will be published per quarter. Only WPA member poetry will be published.

An individual's poetry will only be published once every four issues. If you are published, please do not submit poetry again until three more issues are published. Thank you for understanding and allowing for the opportunity of your fellow members to have their poetry featured in our newsletter.

Meeting the submission deadline may not assure publication in the forthcoming issue.

If a forthcoming issue does not have room for a submission, the editor will hold it over for the next issue as a priority item unless the author forbids that at the time of submission or unless it contains dated material. The editor will work with the author if she/he chooses to reduce the size of the article to fit the forthcoming issue.

The editor reserves the right to edit all submitted material.

Please direct any questions or concerns to newsletter@washingtonpoets.org