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Submit your work through Submittable (no fee)
Submissions are closed July-Aug
We prefer & encourage submissions of original work
(see Warranty & Disclaimer below)
but if one or two are previously published, provide details.
Please do not submit a pre-formatted 'microchap' with your poems but send a Word document.
And please do not center your poems on the document, left-justified is preferable.
A microchap is a downloadable, single-page PDF.
Folding instructions are under the 'Who We Are' tab.
Here's what the PDF layout looks like:
Our goal is to share poetry freely but this doesn't mean every submission is accepted for publication.
Format Considerations
Please print one of the microchaps to understand what we're publishing:
Misc Details...
Review your work before submitting (we speak from experience) as we assume you're sending the final version.
Each microchap "page" allows 47 characters per line including spaces*
Each page accommodates 25-27 lines.
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Example of Character Count -
That’s what I want to be – 29 Characters
A sleeping dog in the window. 29 Characters
My main concern will be, what’s happening for tea... 52 Characters
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Excerpt from Helen Burke’s “Sleeping Dogs” © 2013
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We reserve the right to accept or refuse any cover or title suggestion.
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There is no payment - upon acceptance we'll post your book on the Home page & on your own Bio page.
We will do our best to 'announce' your work on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram unless you say otherwise. And will include your work in the upcoming newsletter.
(You may sign up for the 'OPP Newsletter' or not - we'll bcc all the poets in the newsletter in any case.)
The poet retains all rights after the first-time appearance on the website.
If you have more to submit please wait, say, 2-3 months...
The OPP is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
We are grateful for the smallest of Donations...
Via Paypal, check, coins, or through an AmazonSmile purchase.
Questions? email us at: email(at)origamipoems.com
Submit and Relax - We'll get back to you!
Thank you for your interest in the Origami Poems Project
WARRANTY
By submitting to the Origami Poems Project (OPP), the submitter warrants that s/he alone has created the work s/he is submitting and that s/he owns all rights to it. The submitter will indemnify and hold OPP and its staff harmless from and against any and all loss, damage, costs and other expenses arising out of claims, whatever their nature, resulting directly or indirectly from breach of this warranty.
DISCLAIMER
The opinions expressed by each individual published or interviewed poet/author in (OPP)are the poet/author's alone, and do not necessarily reflect those held by OPP
Terms of Use: All materials on this site are protected by copyright and intellectual property laws and are the property of Origami Poems Project ("OPP") and our poets. Unless otherwise provided through the express, written permission of the Editors, visitors may access and download free OPP micro-chapbooks available through the OPP website only for personal, non-commercial use. Any and all sale and/or resale of OPP materials is strictly prohibited. Selection, publication and/or distribution of submitted poetry shall be at the sole discretion of the Editors. OPP reserves the right to refuse any submission for any reason.
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