Call For Submissions

Albany Poets is looking for Albany area poets to be featured on our website, Other:____, and future printed publications.

If you are interested in having your work featured on the site along side some of the most talented poets in the Northeast, send an email to submissions@albanypoets.com with a sample of your work and a brief introduction of yourself.

You may also send your work to us through the mail to:
Albany Poets
84 South Pine Ave.
Albany, NY 12208

General Submission Guidelines:
When sending your email, please place all poems and bios inside the body of the email. Emails with attachments will be deleted upon receipt unless prior arrangements are made.

Multiple submissions are accepted. You can send more than one submission per project. Please, no simultaneous submissions. When we accept a poem for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. Once we’ve published your poem, you are free to include it in your own collection or another publication (online or printed).

“Other:____” Submission Guidelines:
Albany Poets is accepting simultaneous submissions, but we reserve the right to first -publication. Once we’ve published your poem, you are free to include it in your own collection or another publication (online or printed).

Albany Poets is accepting multiple submissions for “Other:____” up to three full length poems may be submitted.

Poetry: Poetry of any form, but no more than three full length poems, or five short poems.

Short Shorts (Flash Fiction): No longer than two pages, single-spaced, New Times Roman 12 point font.

Images: Will be reproduced in black and white and arranged to fit our format. If cropping is necessary, the artist will be contacted for final approval.

Comics: Black and White comics only. One page complete stories, Comic strips 1 to 6 panels, and longer works to be serialized.

How to Submit to “Other:____”: All poems and bios must be contained inside the body of the email. Emails with attachments will be deleted upon receipt unless prior arrangements are made. A full mailing address (name, street address or PO box, city, state and zip code) must accompany all email submissions in order to be considered. Email to: submissions@albanypoets.com

Submissions for “Other:____” will only be accepted electronically via submissions@albanypoets.com unless prior arrangements are made with the editors.

Payment: Payment is in the form of two copies of “Other:____” mailed to the address provided with the submission.