Open Skies Poetry & Open Skies Press
Open Skies Poetry (yearly anthology)
Poetry Submissions are open from June 1st to July 31st. Open Skies Poetry book will feature a variety of poets, each one allotted room for up to five poems and a short biography. The poems may be used as the copyright owner sees fit despite appearing in our book. We ask only for the USE of the works herein and the copyright for the collection we create, not the individual piece. That remains the sole property of the creator.
As much as we would like to, we do not offer payment or physical copies for work used. We do, however, offer the electronic version of the volume as a free download which anyone may utilize as often as they choose. If the contributor has a book or website that they would like added to the book, they made include it in their bio when submitting. We kindly ask that all poets keep their bios short due to limited space.
For ease of distribution, we will use print on demand for the physical book so as to eliminate the possibility of massive piles of inventory and for ease of shipping. It will be available through Amazon, then will branch out from there through expanded distribution.
If you have made it this far and find that you would like to submit your work for consideration, we ask that you include your full name, contact info, and the submission (1-5 poems of any theme, subject, length and style) in the body of an email and send it to Courtney Glover at openskiesmedia@yahoo.com
Please do not send attachments! We will not open attachments! In special cases, we may request these files if certain formatting requirements are needed. Unsolicited Manuscripts with attached files will be rejected outright.
In the event of a previously published work being accepted we ask that the information as to when and where to be included so that we can give proper citation out of respect for the original publisher.
By submitting your work for consideration, you attest that the work is of your own creation and that you are the express owner of the rights to your submitted work. Also, by submitting your works, you agree to the publishing and printing of your work by Open Skies Poetry.
Disclaimer:
We here at Open Skies Poetry reserve the right to edit accepted pieces for clarification, etc. We may correct any misspellings or other errors, including breaking up any run-on sentences. We also run all pieces through editing apps for editing purposes such as grammar and detecting plagiarism, etc. Everyone whose work is accepted will be sent a pdf of their pieces for approval before the book goes live. All authors must approve the pdfs sent to them within a two-week time frame. Your poetic works are important to you, as well as with us, and we hope to work together to bring your work to life.