submissions

We will be open again for submissions of poetry and prose from 1st December 2025 until the 15th January 2026.

General Guidelines:

    Please send up to five pages of poetry as a .doc or .docx via email
    to submissions [at] wetgrainpoetry.co.uk with your name in the title of the document.
    If your work is visual or contains formatting these forms don’t accomodate, feel free to send a pdf.

    We welcome submissions in translation provided permission has been obtained to publish the original.

    We welcome simultaneous submission. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

    If you haven’t already, we encourage prospective contributors to familiarise themselves with the poetry
    we publish by buying a copy of a previous issue.

    If your work is accepted we might ask you to contribute a) a short note on a poem included in the issue
    or b) a flash essay. Please indicate whether you’d be interested in contributing to these important features
    of the magazine in the body of your email.

    We also consider pitches of prose and will occassionally publish reviews of recent
    collections. If you are sending us a pitch please outline why you think it would be a good
    fit for the magazine in your cover letter.

    We encourage and actively seek work by poets from underrepresented and marginalised backgrounds.

    We pay £75 per poem & £100 per thousand words of prose upon publication.