The Red Wheelbarrow (Volume 18) is open for submissions of poetry and essays from poets who have attended one of the monthly Red Wheelbarrow Poets reading series from June 4, 2024, through July 3, 2025. You are also invited to submit if you participated in any of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Workshops during the same period. Submission deadline: July 4, 2025.
Please indicate in the submission form when you attended a reading or when you’ve participated in the workshop to qualify. Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Please note:
- We are a community journal. We do not require a submission or reading fee and cannot provide complimentary copies of our book to writers whose work is included. We strongly encourage people and hope that they will support everyone’s work by attending our launch and buying copies of our journal.
- Poets selected by one of our guest editors to submit work for RWB 18 are not eligible to submit in the general submissions as well.
- Poets with poems accepted for publication in this general call for submissions are not eligible to have their work published in the guest editor section as well.
When you submit, please complete the online form for one paragraph of relevant biographical information.
- Limit your bio paragraph to 50 words.
- In the bio refer to yourself in the third person using your preferred pronoun.
We plan to publish and release Volume 18 in the fall of 2025.
Submission Guidelines for Essays
Please submit 1 (one) essay in a single Word document. The only acceptable file formats are .doc or .docx. No pdf or other file types will be accepted.
We are particularly interested in short (a page or less) reviews of books published in the last year by members of our community. Book reviews should include the name of the book, the author, the publisher, publication date, and of course, the review.
Format for the Submission Document
- Submit one Word document containing 1 (one) essay. Topics may include but are not limited to: William Carlos Williams, New Jersey or Rutherford history, art or poetry scenes, book reviews, writing craft. We’re pretty flexible.
- Maximum length: 2,500 words.
- Use Garamond, Times, or Times New Roman 12-point font.
- Do NOT use headers, footers, or automatic page numbering in the document.
- Do NOT use the footnote feature in Microsoft Word! If you want footnotes, do it manually.
- Your name should appear above the essay. Do NOT use All caps.
- If your submission relies on a special layout, please be aware of the print area this edition can allow: page printable area width is 4 3/4 inch by 6 3/4 inch length.
Submission deadline: July 4, 2025. Click this Submittable link to submit.
Submission Guidelines for Poems
Please submit 5 (five) poems in a single Word document. The only acceptable file formats are .doc or .docx. No pdf or other file types will be accepted.
Format for the Submission Document
- Submit one Word document containing up to 5 (five) poems. Translations are counted as part of the five poem limit.
- Use Garamond, Times, or Times New Roman 12-point font.
- Do NOT use headers, footers, or automatic page numbering in the document.
- Do NOT use the footnote feature in Microsoft Word! If you want footnotes, do it manually.
- Your name should appear above the first poem. Do NOT use All caps.
- Each poem must have a page break at the end. Your poems should each start on a new page of the document.
- If your submission relies on a special layout, please be aware of the print area this edition can allow: page printable area width is 4 3/4 inch by 6 3/4 inch length.
Submission deadline: July 4, 2025. Click this Submittable link to submit.
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