CONTENTS: Interview with a Poet * Reviews * Visual Art * Video * Special Section * SUBMIT * POETRY ISSUES: #1 May 2016 * #2 Aug 2016 * #3 Nov 2016 * #4 Feb 2017 * #5 May 2017 * #6 Aug 2017 * #7 Nov 2017 * #8 Feb 2018 * #9 May 2018 * #10 Aug 2018 * #11 Nov 2018 * #12 Feb 2019 * #13 May 2019 * #14 Aug 2019 * #15 Nov 2019 * #16 Feb 2020 * #17 May 2020 * #18 Aug 2020 * #19 Nov 2020
SoFloPoJo is migrating to Submittable as of January 6, 2021 for its May 2021 issue. There are NO READING FEES.
All Poetry, Essay, Flash Fiction, & Video submissions after January 5, 2021 will be done with Submittable.
After reviewing our guidelines please use the SUBMIT button at the bottom of this page.
All Poetry, Essay, Flash Fiction, & Video submissions after January 5, 2021 will be done with Submittable.
After reviewing our guidelines please use the SUBMIT button at the bottom of this page.
Words from our Founder
Thank you for thinking of South Florida Poetry Journal as an opportunity to showcase your work. We want poetry, flash fiction and essays that inspire, stimulate, evoke, emote, shock and surprise. We want to be transported by your words to wondrous and strange places, and familiar places that you have made new. Please send us your best work.
Seriously, your best.
We read year-round. We publish quarterly: February, May, August and November.
Thank you for thinking of South Florida Poetry Journal as an opportunity to showcase your work. We want poetry, flash fiction and essays that inspire, stimulate, evoke, emote, shock and surprise. We want to be transported by your words to wondrous and strange places, and familiar places that you have made new. Please send us your best work.
Seriously, your best.
We read year-round. We publish quarterly: February, May, August and November.
POETRY
- By submitting to SoFloPoJo you agree that your submission is your original unpublished work.
- Send 3-5 unpublished poems in one document to our Submittable page.
- We use a blind read process please do not include your name on the 3 to 5 poems.
- We prefer 12 pt. font in Times New Roman or similar.
- Please do not center poems or their titles on the page.
- Please DO NOT make your titles all caps or underline titles!
- Include a brief third-person bio and tell us what city/town you live in.
- Please send one submission per issue. If we accept or reject a submission
- please wait 6 months before sending again.
- Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please withdraw your piece if it is accepted elsewhere.
- Once your work is accepted, we encourage you to send an audio file of your poem(s) Michael Mackin O'Mara at mmomara@soflopojo.com include the word "Audio" in your subject line when you send an audio file.
- Please do not include bios or introductions in the audio file.
- Please NO .zip files.
- We also encourage you to send a head shot for our contributor's page to lenny.dellarocca@soflopojo.com
- include the word "Headshot" in your subject line.
- SoFloPoJo may add your email address to its contact list.
- If you do not wish to be on our email list, please inform us.
- SoFloPoJo retains First North American Serial Rights, and the right to archive or reprint your work.
- In addition to publishing your work in the South Florida Poetry Journal we may feature it on our YouTube or Facebook Channels and it may also be eligible to be printed in a print anthology.
- Following publication, all rights revert back to the author.
- SoFloPoJo reserves the right to edit bios for length.
- Please credit South Florida Poetry Journal or SoFloPoJo the place where your work first appeared.
- Please tell the world your work has been accepted, and send them the link after it appears.
- We’re looking for personal essays related to being a writer. (We interpret this very broadly!) Highly technical craft essays are not a good fit for us. If you have something you think we’d be interested in, send it our way. Or, if you have an in-progress idea on which you’d like a bit of feedback, we’d love to hear from you. We’re excited about working with new and published essayists alike.
- We publish approximately two essays in each issue. Check our website to read what we’ve published: SouthFloridaPoetryJournal.com.
- Approximate word count: 1,000-1,500 words. Unfortunately, we are not able to pay contributors.
- Use the Submit button below or search "SoFloPoJo Essay" on the Submittable Discover Page.
- Please submit on our Submittable page. (link below)
- 500 to 750 words.
- Send inquiries regarding performance/Slam, Spoken Word, or other vibrant poetry readings recorded on video to Managing Editor Michael Mackin O'Mara through our Submittable Call for Video Submissions
- Use the Submit button below or search "SoFloPoJo Video" on the Submittable Discover Page.
VISUAL ART
- To submit or query about Visual Art please contact Art Editor Kristine Snodgrass at kristine.snodgrass@gmail.com
GUEST REVIEWS
- Send a query to Lenny DellaRocca at lenny.dellarocca@soflopojo.com if you have written a review you'd like us to publish.