Submission Guidelines

  • Please submit up to five poems of any length or style.

  • Submissions should be formatted as a single Word document and set in 12 point Times New Roman.

  • We accept only original, unpublished work. Work cannot have appeared/be currently featured in print or digitally—e.g. personal sites, blogs, etc.

  • We will not honor multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, although we request that you inform us in the event that a piece is selected elsewhere. For administrative convenience, this should be done through the note feature in Submittable.

  • Submit no more than once every 90 days. Past contributors are advised to resubmit no sooner than one year from date of last publication.

  • We consider translations of poetry and prefer to publish these alongside the original text, which should be included in submissions of translations. Upon acceptance, we will ask the translator to obtain the appropriate permission for the original text to appear in DIALOGIST (with attribution, if it has appeared previously).

DIALOGIST is self-funded and does not charge for submissions. While we make every effort to respond as promptly as possible, please do not query until 60 days have passed. Compensation is not provided for published works. Upon selection and publication, we retain exclusive online publication rights of your work for 90 days. After 90 days, we release all rights back to you. Your work will remain indefinitely active within our archive, following initial stand-alone publication.

For questions regarding your submission, contact us at: dialogist@dialogist.org. Do not use this email to submit your work; visit our Submittable portal using the link below. Unsolicited work sent to the above address will not be considered.

 
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Charlottesville, VA
2013–2024