Poetry - SAND 30 - Free submissions for those who need them

If our €3 reading fee creates a financial barrier for you, you can submit your work for free here. It's important to us that our submissions remain accessible to everyone.

Our general, non-genre-specific guidelines are listed on the previous page.

Please send us:

• Poems that take interesting risks. 
• Poems that are attentive to language. We like to see specific and deliberate methods for setting the words on the page. 
• We want to see your weird poems, your challenging poems, your sensitive poems. 
• If your work considers classical forms and uses them to new ends, send it. If it rejects traditional forms and forges new ones, we want to see it. 
• Please keep in mind that our journal size is A5. Due to design considerations, prose poetry that is particularly wide is likely to undergo some spatial shifts during the editing process.
• We will not consider submissions over 5 pages. Please do not send multiple submissions.
• Please do not include your name or any other identifying information on your submission.
• We may suggest edits, but the poet has the final say.
• Please note that if we accept a poem, we may not be able to accommodate edits made by the poet post-submission.
• Please submit your poems as a word document. If your submission includes concrete or visual poetry, please additionally submit a PDF.

Translations:

• We welcome translations into English, including self-translations.
• If available, we will include the original version of a poem alongside the translation.
• The original work may be previously published as long as it has not been translated into English before. Permission must be granted for publication in SAND from the author and the translator and, if necessary, the author’s publisher.

Note on images:

• If your submission contains any images, please ensure that they are available in print resolution (300dpi) and, if they are not your own work, they are copyright free, or you have express written permission from the owner for them to be published in SAND.