Guidelines
Tule Review welcomes all styles of poetry.
http://www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com/publications/the-tule-review/
Scroll below for a checklist to ensure your submission complies with the guidelines.
Submission guidelines are effective as of 2/1/2014
To get a sample of the kind of poetry we have published, either obtain a back copy of a recent issue, or visit our website, at:
There is no fee for submissions.
Tule Review now has a rolling reading period, from May 1 to April 30, so that poems may be submitted at any time during the year. The cutoff to be considered for any year’s issue (or deadline for submissions) is April 30 of that year.
The editorial staff has a blind submission procedure. This process makes it all the more important that your submission meet the following requirements.
- Submit your work via Submittable,* an on-line submission manager in use by many publications. You may set up a Submittable account for free.
- We will make acceptance and decline notifications via Submittable, so plan to check your account and/or set it up to provide you email alerts.
- Submit no more than three poems, maximum 96 lines per poem. In general, we favor poems that will take no more than 2 pages in the finished 5″x 7″ book.
- Include all of your submitted poems in a single file that you upload to your Submittable submission (that is, upload one file that contains all poems, do not upload two or three separate files). Your file should be in .docx or .doc format. Do not submit in .pdf format.
- Do NOT include any identifying information on the single file containing your poems, nor in any other uploaded material. DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME (FIRST, LAST, OR ANY OTHER) IN THE TITLE OF YOUR SUBMISSION. We want to read poems without knowing who submitted them. We have set up the system so that it will shield your account-identifying information from us. Please, no spoilers!
- Include your bio only as Submittable allows your bio to be recorded — DO NOT include YOUR NAME OR BIO in the body of the submission of poems itself. If your work is selected for publication, we will use the biography posted with submittable or obtain a current bio from you at the time of acceptance.
- We DO accept simultaneous submissions. Notify us immediately of your work’s acceptance elsewhere. Notify other publishers immediately upon acceptance to Tule Review that your poems are committed to us and cannot be accepted or published elsewhere.
- All work must be your own and cannot have been previously published.
In general, we do NOT accept submissions by direct email or US mail. If you have a valid reason as to why you cannot submit electronically, via Submittable, include that reason in your letter and we will consider it (i.e. you have absolutely no access to a computer). The final right to decide what counts as a valid submission rests with the editors.
