Poetry South is an international journal that considers all kinds of poetry. Though we pay particular attention to writers from the South — born, raised, or living here — all poetry within our covers has a claim to the South because it is published here. The magazine has a tradition of including poets from other regions in the US and other countries. We are looking for a great mix of styles and voices that will appeal to our audience and breathe new life into the poetry of the South.

• Send 1-4 unpublished poems in Word format
• Include a brief bio of 80 words or less, written in third person. Bios will be edited to fit in our contributor's notes.
• Include your mailing address with your submission, so we can send a contributor's copy
• We do consider long poems. Poems of more than two typed pages should be considered as 2 poems in your submission packet.
• All submissions must be the original work of the author; translations must include proof of permission from the original author unless the source text is in the public domain
• Poetry South does not consider AI-generated or AI-assisted poetry as the writer's original work
• We do accept simultaneous submissions. Please withdraw your poem immediately if it is accepted elsewhere or leave a message in Submittable if one or two poems out of a file of 4 poems needs to be withdrawn. (Do not add a note in Submittable; those are only seen by you. It must be a message to communicate with us.)
• Please submit only once per year. If you must withdraw your submission, you may resubmit new poems; if your submission is declined or if we have not responded to your submission yet, please do not submit again for the current issue.

Our annual submission deadline is July 15. Submissions made after that date will be considered for the following year's issue, though response times may be longer. We typically begin reading again in December or January, after the current year's issue goes to press, though submissions are welcome starting July 16, and we thank you for your patience while we are concentrating on putting out the new issue.