Taking Submissions: Graveside Press: Illustrated Poetry Anthology
May 31
Deadline: May 31st, 2025
Payment: 2 cents per word for poetry, $75 for artwork
Theme: Grim, gothic, morbidly funny, terrifying works of poetry and artwork
Calling all poetry authors AND artists!
We’re stepping outside of the box here and trying something new. We’re calling on poets and artists this time to help us craft an illustrated poetry anthology. Give us your limericks, sonnets, haiku, ballads, and free-verse! Have visual poetry? EVEN BETTER. We want grim, gothic, morbidly funny, terrifying works.
Your poetry submission:
- should be 150 lines (not words) max
- horror centric
- any form of poetry is allowed
- multiple submissions allowed
Your art submission:
- color or black/white (a color edition is tentatively planned)
- various sizes/dimensions considered
- submit as jpg, tiff, png, or pdf
- multiple submissions allowed
- NO GENERATIVE AI ART OF ANY KIND.
Est. publication date: July 2025
Compensation (written work): .02c/word
Compensation (artwork): $75
Poetry+art submissions from the same submitter are allowed. If the pieces are related, please upload them in the same submission.
Because of the rarity of horror poets, submissions will remain open until we feel we’ve received a good pool to select from.
File types: .doc, .docx, .pdf, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, .tiff
Number of Pieces: Up to 2 pieces per submission.
Single File: Not required; may include a separate file/link for each piece.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Reprints are allowed. (We will consider reprints, however preference will be shown for new original works.)
Multiple entries are allowed.
AI-assisted works are not allowed.
Via: Graveside Press’s Duotrope.
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