Anonymous Submissions Policy

1. We will only read submissions sent during our official submission periods.

2. Cordite now maintains an anonymous submissions policy. This means that the guest editor for each issue does not know the identities of contributors until after the final selections have been made.

3. Simultaneous submissions or previously published material will not be considered. This includes works published in print and web journals but does not apply to material first published on personal blogs.

4. Please place up to FIVE (5) poems in ONE (1) Word or RTF document, with no identifying details in the document itself.

5. Please use our online submission form to submit your work.

6. If you have used the online submission form, you will receive an automatically-generated email acknowledging receipt of your submission. We ask that you allow at least four weeks after the closing date to receive further news on the status of your submission.

7. We regret that we are not able to offer feedback on individual poems.

8. We will accept submissions from any place on planet earth. Thanks to the generous support of the Australia Council for the Arts we are able to offer payment to our Australian contributors.

9. And that is all.

5 Responses to Anonymous Submissions Policy

  1. Rose g. says:
    October 29, 2010 at 8:37 am

    I always thought poetry came about when chivalry exsisted and a man would use his words(poetry) as a way of courting the woman they would eventually marry. Although not all is love poetry it is a definite form of expression for every human emotion. Thats just me.

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  2. Anthony J. Langford says:
    January 15, 2012 at 8:00 pm

    I really like the anonymous policy. Too often poetry and fiction are accepted based on the author’s credentials. The same applies with novels. Publishers and literary journals will often take a name over an ‘unknown.’ The work should always come first. Nice to see.

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    • David Prater says:
      January 17, 2012 at 8:57 pm

      Glad you approve, Anthony – we’ve worked very hard to make the anonymous submissions policy work, and while it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, I personally think it’s helped make Cordite what it is today.

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  3. Glad McGough says:
    January 21, 2012 at 3:50 pm

    I wish to encourage my writers to enter your poetry cordite 38 Sydney publishing opportunity. Although I have read your submission page I cannot find where and how one submits entries. That is eith e-mail, snail maile or via a submission box on your wesite. I would appreciate your advise
    Glad facilitator (usually considered intelligent)

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