Submissions closed for Poetry New Zealand 53

Poetry New Zealand on Fouras beach, côte Atlantique
[photographs: Michael Dean]

Yes, I'm afraid that time has come again: time to fold up your towels and come in out of the sun - submissions for Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, issue no. 53, due out in early 2019, are now officially closed.

Fold up that towel!

I'll continue to add various commissioned reviews and other bits and pieces to the text, but any unsolicited work that's sent to me from now on will have to be sent back. You're welcome to start preparing your material for Yearbook 2020 [Issue 54], but it might be better to hold off on that until mid-2019. Once again, we'll be following the convention of accepting entries from Mayday until the end of July.

Some of you may have been feeling a bit uneasy about the lack of a reply to the work you've sent. It's not really practical to acknowledge each submission as it arrives. I do hope that only a very few of you will be kept waiting more than three months from the date of receipt, however.

So please do rest assured that we're working through them all, and that each of you will receive a reply in the very near future.

Submissions closed for Poetry New Zealand 52

Closed

Yes, I'm afraid it's official: submissions for Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018, issue no. 52, due out - I hope - in March next year, are now closed. I'll continue to add various commissioned reviews and other bits and pieces to the text, but any unsolicited work that's sent to me from now on will have to be sent back. You're welcome to start preparing your material for Yearbook 2019 [Issue 53], but it might be better to hold off on that until mid-2018 (we'll be following the usual convention of accepting entries from Mayday until the end of July).

Some of you may have been feeling a bit uneasy about the lack of a reply to the poems you've sent. It's not really practical to acknowledge each submission as it arrives (there've been over 300 for this issue: a new record). I hope that very few of you will be kept waiting any longer than three months from the date of receipt.

So please do rest assured that we're working through them all, and that all of you will receive a reply in the very near future.

So much has been sent, however, that there will inevitably have to be a lot of rejection letters. We all hate writing them, but it must be done. I can already see that there's some fantastic material in my inbox, but there are logistic limits on what even a publisher as supportive as Massey University Press will allow me to include between one set of covers.

Vein of Gold

Submissions closed for Poetry NZ 49

The Gold Rush

I'm afraid that I have to report that submissions for the next issue of Poetry NZ, no. 49, due out - I hope - in late October, are now closed. I'll continue to add various commissioned reviews and other bits and pieces to the text, but any unsolicited work that's sent to me from now on will have to wait to be considered for next year's issue instead. You're welcome to send me material for PNZ 50 [PNZ Yearbook 2], but it might be better to hold off till early 2015 unless you're in a very great hurry.

That is, I'm afraid, one of the problems with the new yearbook format. I had originally planned to make the end of June this year my deadline, but fascinating submissions have continued to come in, so I can't say that I regret stretching that a bit.

Some of you have also been feeling a bit uneasy about the lack of a reply to the poems you've sent. I do apologise for that. I inherited quite a lot of material from the previous editorial team, and have continued to receive a steady stream of submissions ever since. I do promise in future to keep more closely to the guideline of a reply within three months of receipt, though. That's one of the new systems I'd like to get in place for future issues.

Rest assured that I am working through them all, and that all of you will receive a reply in the very near future.

The advantage of the new format, though, is that I'll be able to put in far more poems, and far more extras generally. I'm looking forward to showing you all the excellent material that's been collected so far!

Gold nugget