Submission Guidelines

The Red Wheelbarrow (Volume 15) is open for submissions from  poets who have read their poetry as a featured poet or at the open mic  at the monthly Red Wheelbarrow Poets reading series from July 7, 2021,  through July 6, 2022. You are also invited to submit if you participated  in any of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Workshops during the same period.  Please indicate in your cover letter when you’ve read with us or that  you’ve attended the workshop to qualify.

We plan to publish and release Volume 15 in the autumn of 2022.

Please  submit up to 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.

Please  see “Format for the Submission Document” for how to present your  work. Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please notify us immediately  if your work is accepted elsewhere.

When you submit, please complete the online form for one paragraph of relevant biographical information.
A. Limit your bio paragraph to approximately 100 words or a character limit of 700 (including spaces).
B. In the bio refer to yourself in the third person, using your preferred pronoun.

Submission deadline: July 6, 2022. Submit via this Submittable link.