Submission guidelines

Have a Seat at the Table! Submissions to The Seat are currently OPEN. Send up to three poems or one review (250-500 words) to table4deuce@gmail.com.

Reviews may focus on a single poem, book, a television episode, a song, etc. If you can relate it back to poetry somehow, bonus points. What we want is honest, thoughtful, dynamic engagement, whether it be humorous or wholehearted, glowing or glowering.

In the subject line, please put the GENRE and YOUR NAME. “Poetry - Rupi Kaur” or “Other People’s Poetry - John Kucera,” for instance.

Bios, cover letters, credentials = fluff and are absolutely optional. We will request additional information as needed once a piece is accepted.

T4D requests first North America serial rights for any work that we accept for publication. All rights revert to the author upon publication, though we ask you acknowledge The Seat: Poetry & Reviews if the work is published elsewhere. At this time we are unable to pay our contributors.  

We will consider poems or reviews that were featured in now defunct journals as long as you hold the rights and they are not published in a collection.

Submit only once until you receive a response you eager beavers.

Paste work into the body of the email or send an attachment. If you send an obscure attachment we can’t open, consider it roasted.

Simultaneous submissions are NOT permitted. Just kidding. What are we, monsters? Sim sub to your heart’s content since our response times vary.