Poems

Arc accepts pre­vi­ously unpub­lished poetry in English or pre­vi­ously unpub­lished translations of poetry into English, on any sub­ject and in any form.

Poets may submit poems that are simultaneously submitted elsewhere. If a poem that has been submitted to Arc is accepted by another publication, it should be withdrawn from Arc immediately via Submittable or by notifying Arc using Submittable’s messaging feature.

As a Canadian literary magazine, and due to the increasing number of submissions from US-based poets, we are requesting that US submitters pay a $2 submission fee per poem. If this fee is a barrier for anyone wishing to submit, please email us about having the fee waived.

General Poetry Submission Guidelines

• Submissions must not exceed three poems or 360 lines of poetry. Only three poems per poet will be considered each calendar year.
• Submissions of more than one poem must be broken up into two or three documents and submitted separately along with your biog­ra­phy. In order to submit the files separately you must go through the submission process for each piece you wish to submit. This allows you to provide each submission with the title of your poem and it allows us to group the submissions more easily and update you about the status of each individual poem.
• Submissions must be typed and sin­gle spaced (dou­ble spaces will be inter­preted as blank lines).
• Submissions must include your name and email address on each page.
• Cover Letters must include your biog­ra­phy, which should be two to three sentences or approximately 30 words long.
• Submissions of visual poetry or concrete poetry should be submitted as PDFs. Spoken Word poems can be submitted as text or audio or video recordings.