Metonym Journal: Poetry Submissions
Overview
Metonym Journal operates as a literary magazine with a clear editorial posture: work is read blind, and the journal's guidelines explicitly exclude any manuscript that carries identifying information, whether in the file name or on the page. This is not a procedural footnote but a curatorial commitment. The journal asks that the text stand on its own, and it structures its review process to ensure that it does. For poets accustomed to submitting into opaque queues, the transparency of that method is itself a form of respect. The journal accepts one to four poems per submission, each under two pages, and permits simultaneous submissions provided the editors are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. There is no submission fee. The guidelines also admit fiction or creative non-fiction up to 1,500 words and one to four pieces of original artwork or photographs, which suggests a publication attentive to the visual and the written alike, though the present call is directed at poets. The requirement that work be previously unpublished is standard and unambiguous. What the journal offers is publication, with the author's name attributed upon acceptance. There is no prize, no reading fee, and no geographic restriction. The editorial vision, insofar as the guidelines articulate it, is one of restraint and clarity: sophisticated, complete work, submitted without ornament or self-promotion, and judged without the interference of biography. Poets who value that arrangement will find the terms legible and the deadline firm.