Verse-Virtual is both a community and a journal. This is not the place for poets who just want to see their work published. Neither is it a workshop. If you submit, you should be interested in being part of the community.

You should read the ABOUT page before continuing, and read through the current issue of the journal to see what kinds of poetry we publish.

To submit:

• Write POEMS and your NAME in the subject line of the email.
  
  
• In the body of the email, on separate lines, write your name as you want it to appear in the journal, your location, email address, and a single website address if you have one. Left justify, please.
  
  
• Include a bio note no more than one hundred words long, cast in first person. It should include a few interesting personal details and only two or three publishing credits. If you wish, you may substitute a short author's note regarding your poem(s).
  
  
• If you are new to us, please tell us how you heard about Verse-Virtual.
  
  
• List the titles of your poems on separate, single-spaced lines, in plain text.
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• Attach up to three poems in a single document in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. NO PDFs, please. DO NOT PASTE YOUR POEMS INTO THE BODY OF YOUR EMAIL!
  —Poems should be single-spaced, in Times Roman 12 point font, with everything left-
     aligned, including titles and epigraphs.
  —Each poem should start on a new page
  —Poems with peculiar or radical formatting are typically rejected.
  —If you have a photo you want to accompany a poem, it must be attached as a JPG file.
  
  
• Asian forms (haiku, senryu, haibuns, etc.) and prose poetry have little chance of being accepted; sequence poems have no chance. We do not accept poems with adult content, profanity, hate speech, racist rants, and AI or bot generated work.
  
  
• Send your submission to submissions4vv@gmail.com.
  
  
• If your work is first published in Verse-Virtual, we would appreciate it if you would acknowledge us if it is later published elsewhere.
  
  

We accept previously published/curated poems. Please let us know where they first appeared. Due to the nature of the community, we are no-fee and no-pay.

You will get an auto-reply that your submission has been received. If you followed the guidelines, we will notify you by the 15th whether we have accepted or declined your poem(s).

Simultaneous submissions are fine. However, if your poem is accepted somewhere else, you should let us know so it doesn't get published here first, while another journal is expecting to publish it. Copyright of all written material at all times belongs to the author.  

By submitting to Verse-Virtual, you should be aware that you will be added to the email list for announcements and items of interest to the community. We understand that people can be inundated with emails from everywhere, and adding one more may seem like too much. You may unsubscribe here.