Thank you for submitting to Hole In The Head Review.
We review submissions of poetry, prose poetry, and visual art twice a year:
December 1st to January 1st for the Spring Issue
June 1st to July 1st for the Fall Issue
We're committed to publishing the best contemporary poetry and visual art. We publish emerging and established artists and writers. We'll respond within 45 days.
All submissions should include:
- A brief 3rd person bio, 100 words or fewer
- Links to your websites or social media
If you submit in more than one category, for example, Poetry and Prose Poems, please be sure to separate your submissions. We will only consider work in the category for which it is submitted. Only one submission per category per submission period, please.
We do not accept submissions using Generative Text AI at any stage of the process.
Hole In The Head Review assumes First Electronic/Online Rights. All rights revert to the author or artist upon publication. If you republish your work in a collection, please credit Hole In The Head Review for the first publication.
Poetry:
Please send up to three previously unpublished poems during a submission period. Upload them as a single file, no more than one poem per page. We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us immediately via Submittable if you need to withdraw part of your submission. Submissions for poetry cap at 125 per reading period.
Prose Poetry:
From Jefferson Navicky, Prose Poetry Editor: "I am looking for prose poems that help us define and redefine what a prose poem is and can be. Show me your cast-iron airplanes that can fly, show me your chunky buckets, your jewel boxes, your charming paragraphs longing to be poems, show me the incidental, the thunderstruck, the syntactically impossible or only possible in the world of your prose poem. That is the world I want to live in."
Send up to three prose poems in one document. Please remove all identifiers: submissions will be read blind. Send your submission early. We suspect we will fill up quickly. Submissions for prose poems cap at 50 per reading period.
Visual Art:
We currently publish one to two pieces of cover art per issue. Please submit no more than three images, no smaller than 5"x7". If you can set the resolution, use 72 pixels per inch. Submissions for visual art cap at 25 per reading period.
If you have questions, please email Mike Bove: editor@holeintheheadreview.com
We're committed to offering compelling contemporary poetry from both emerging and established artists and writers. We welcome all voices, and our tastes are eclectic. In general, we look for poems that reframe the ordinary, make the personal universal, and transcend the singular "I". Send us your best.
Please send up to three previously unpublished poems during a submission period. Upload them as a single file, no more than one poem per page. We accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us immediately via Submittable if you need to withdraw part of your submission. Submissions for poetry cap at 125 per reading period.
From Jefferson Navicky, Prose Poetry Editor: "I am looking for prose poems that help us define and redefine what a prose poem is and can be. Show me your cast-iron airplanes that can fly, show me your chunky buckets, your jewel boxes, your charming paragraphs longing to be poems, show me the incidental, the thunderstruck, the syntactically impossible or only possible in the world of your prose poem. That is the world I want to live in."
Send up to three prose poems in one document. Please remove all identifiers: submissions will be read blind. Send your submission early. We suspect we will fill up quickly.