TOWER POETRY welcomes submissions in English, no more than four poems per entry. Maximum length of any one poem is 42 lines including blank lines for stanza breaks. No previously published poems or simultaneous submissions, please. (“Previously published” poems includes poems already published in print or on the Internet.)

TOWER POETRY requests first rights only. Payment is one copy of the issue containing the work.

Deadlines for TOWER POETRY submissions are February 28th for the Summer issue and August 31st for the Winter issue each year.

Submission may be made either by mail or by email.

For submissions by mail:
Each page should display the poet’s name, postal address (for the purpose of sending out copies), telephone number and email address.
Submissions will not be acknowledged, but editorial decisions will be given if SASE (with Canadian postage or IRC) is enclosed.
Please send submissions to:
TOWER POETRY SOCIETY
27 Legend Court
P.O. Box 10148
Ancaster, Ontario
Canada L9K 1P3

For submissions by email:
Please send your submissions to: info@towerpoetry.ca and put the word “Submissions” in the subject line. A cover letter should display the poet’s name, postal address (for the purpose of sending out copies), telephone number and email address, as well as a list of the poems being sent. All information should be sent in PDF format or in a WORD document, or, if that is not possible, then it should be sent in the body of the email.
Submissions will not be acknowledged, but editorial decisions will be given via your email address.

For all submissions:
The Tower Poetry Society operates a website at Tower Poetry. If so indicated with the submission, poems marked “electronic rights also” will be considered for publication on our website.

New Opportunity!

Would you like to have your artwork featured on the next cover of Tower Poetry? We are looking for submissions of colour artwork for the cover of our next edition. The artwork must be submitted in pdf, 8 ½ by 11 landscape format. The right half of the page will constitute the cover, and the left half will be the back of the book. The right side must be able to show the title on the top and the edition information on the bottom. Artwork can be submitted at the same time as poetry, by February 28, or, if the artist wishes to request themes from the submitted poems, after correspondence with the editor.

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