Open Call: Two Poetry Collections, The Poetry Business

The Poetry Business is advertising an open call for submissions for two poetry collections to be edited by Apprentice Editor-in-Residence Gboyega Odubanjo as part of their ‘Apart Together’ 2021 project.

Two full-length poetry collections to be published by Smith|Doorstop in January 2022:

Writers should submit a sample of 15 poems and a 200-word book proposal before March 31st 2021, in the first instance. Shortlisted writers will be informed by April 30th 2021 and asked to submit a complete collection of 48+ A4 pages of poetry before May 16th 2021. Please do not submit a sample if you do not already have a full collection manuscript ready.

Poets submitting may have previously published a pamphlet, but their work should not have appeared as a full length collection. Poets of all backgrounds are eligible and we encourage international submissions and submissions from groups currently under-represented in poetry publishing, for example: d/Deaf or disabled, low-income, Black, Asian, minority ethnic, and LGBTQI+ poets.

They are not accepting submissions of poetry for children or poetry in translation at the moment.

For more information visit https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/about/submissions/