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SUBMISSION CALL for October 2019 issue of cattails
Submissions for Fall/October issue open: 1st July (midnight) GMT and close: 15th August (midnight) GMT.
Attention POETS: Please read the instructions below carefully so you know how and where to submit your poetry. ❤
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Please make sure you submit your work to the correct editor. Mike Montreuil is the haibun editor for the October issue and Sonam Chhoki, the April issue. Kala Ramesh is on a sabbatical and Tim Gardiner is the Youth Corner editor for this issue.
1. Send your work, including images for haiga, in the body of an e-mail only – attachments will not be opened. You must include your country, full name, and e-mail address in the body of the e-mail to be considered. For haiga, images should have a resolution of at least 200 dpi and a photo size of at least 1500 px length.
2. We consider only works that have never been previously published elsewhere, either online or in print, (this includes on social media sites, blogs, and websites).
3. We do not consider works submitted elsewhere simultaneously, including to journals or competitions. Failure to comply with this will result in the rejection of a submission.
4. The work presented must be yours exclusively or if it’s a collaboration, all persons involved in the collaboration must be included in the submission. The names of the authors (poet and photographer/artist) must be included in the haiga photograph/artwork.
5. We encourage, but do not require you to submit your works in your native language, along with the English version.
6. You may make one submission per reading period of:
• Not more than 10 tanka
• Not more than 12 haiku
• Not more than 12 senryu
• Not more than 3 haibun
• Not more than 3 haiga/tankart
7. What we do not accept:
• mainstream short form poetry
• tanka prose
• sequences of any type
• linked verse
• rhymed work
• books for review
Response Time:
Members of the editorial team will acknowledge your submission within a week of receipt. Final acceptances or rejections will be sent once the final selections are complete. If you happen to experience a delay, please contact the principal editor, Sonam, at allthingshaibun@gmail.com
REMINDER:
Please send any/all other submissions (within the “body” of an e-mail), with the Subject heading for the appropriate form you are submitting to, in all CAPITAL LETTERS.
Submit your work according to the following genre editors: (see definitions page if you’re unclear about these distinctions)
Tanka Editor: Kathy Kituai, Australia
submittocattails+TANKA@gmail.com with the subject heading: TANKA
Haiku Editor: Geethanjali Rajan, India
submittocattails+HAIKU@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIKU
Senryu Editor: Gautam Nadkarni, India
submittocattails+SENRYU@gmail.com with the subject heading: SENRYU
Haibun Editor: October Issue: Mike Montreuil, Canada
submittocattails+HAIBUN@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIBUN
Haibun Editor: April Issue: Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan
submittocattails+HAIBUN@gmail.com with the subject heading: HAIBUN
Haiga/Tankart Editor: Lavana Kray, Romania
submittocattails+HAIGA@gmail.com with the subject heading HAIGA
Youth Corner Editor: Tim Gardiner, UK
submittocattails+YOUTH@gmail.com with the subject heading: YOUTH
Managing Editor: Mike Montreuil, Canada
submittocattails+TECH@gmail.com with the subject heading: TECH
UHTS Secretary: lliyana Stoyanova
submittocattails+JOIN@gmail.com with the subject heading: JOIN
Copyright Policy:
All rights revert back to authors upon publication, although credits for having been first-published in cattails (both online and in print), are required, as are credits for any collaboration of any submission. We reserve the right to reprint accepted work in electronic or hard copy form.
by: Iliyana Stoyanova
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Very cool!
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Get busy! We all need to enter these contests so we can get the recognition we deserve for our poetry. 😀
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I’ll think about it! I feel like I’m getting better at poetry, but I’m not sure studying it for a mere year puts me at the level of submitting to real, non-blog places yet!
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Seriously? What if you’re wrong and misjudging yourself. You don’t know how good you are until you submit. That’s my philosophy at least. What have you got to lose?
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Haha, true!
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LOL! 🥰
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hmmm… I am seriously considering… i do love a haiku 🙂
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Good for you! We should all take part in this contest. ❤
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #5: Colleen Chesebro passes along an Announcement that the UHTS’ Cattails is open for submission!
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Thanks so much for spreading the word, Frank. ❤
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My pleasure 😇
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Thank you, Colleen. Yes, we have nothing to lose by submitting. I’ll look into it!
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I agree, Miriam. We all should submit our poetry. At least we have an idea if we need to study the forms more or if we are on the right track. ❤
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Yes, thank you, Colleen. I’ll read the detail this weekend. ❤
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Perfect. ❤️
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❤ 🙂
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Still not a poet, but I tweeted this out to lend a hand. I’m more of a limerick kind of guy, and even then I don’t write them.
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LOL! I get that about you Craig! LOL… thanks for your help. I think submitting your poetry to other places is a good way to learn how you’re doing. ❤
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Hope it drives a bit of traffic.
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It’s all good. I’m still behind and trying to catch up. ☺️
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Happens to me a lot. Sometimes you just have to start fresh and let some of it go.
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Exactly. I’m always moving forward. 🤤
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Thanks for this Sis. I’ve shared to poetry groups on Mewe and FB for you ❤
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Thanks, so much. I hope our challenge participants will enter their poetry! 😍❤️
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I’m sure some will. I don’t think mine is ready for the big leagues yet. ❤
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Never know until you try. ❤
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I’m working on a big project! ❤
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LOL! Good luck, Sis! ❤
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Thanks for sharing this, Colleen.
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You’re welcome. ❤️
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Colleen–if I may–this seems to be the announcement for submissions to the journal, not a contest. These are very different things. Unless I’m totally misreading this? I think it’s great that you’re encouraging people to submit their work, but good advice when submitting to a journal–people should actually look at the journal first. 🙂 I didn’t see a link: http://www.cattailsjournal.com/currentissue.html
Hope you don’t mind my two cents here–and maybe that’s all it’s worth. 🙂
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No, and thanks you’re right. I copied the email I received from UHTS. I just wanted to share opportunities for our poets. Although there is a Tanka contest going right now too. ❤️
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🙂
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Awesome share! I will give it a go 🙂 Thank you!
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I will clarify more on the next challenge. This is for Cattails, a Poetry Journal. There is also a Tanka contest going on. I’ll add the links to my challenge post so everyone knows the difference. ❤
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