Thanks for sharing your work with Rattle! All of the content in our
issues comes from unsolicited submissions—we couldn't exist without
you, and we want this process to be as easy and friendly as
possible. If you have any trouble with the submissions manager, click
the "Help" link at the bottom of this page—or you may submit by
snail mail, instead, with instructions at our full guidelines page
[http://www.rattle.com/poetry/submissions/guidelines/].
OVERVIEW:
Rattle publishes unsolicited poetry, translations, and (rarely)
essays. General submissions are accepted year-round.
Rattle does not accept work that has been previously published, in
print or online (we do consider self-publishing to blogs, message
boards, and Facebook as publication if it can be viewed publicly
without login). Simultaneous submissions are ENCOURAGED.
Contributors to the print magazine receive $50 and a complimentary
one-year subscription. Poems for "Online Only" categories receive $25.
All submissions are automatically considered for the annual Neil
Postman Award for Metaphor
[http://www.rattle.com/poetry/extras/postman/], a $500 prize judged by
the editors. Separate from general and themed (and always free)
submissions, we also offer the annual $10,000 Rattle Poetry Prize
[http://www.rattle.com/poetry/prize/about/] and the new Rattle
Chapbook Prize [http://www.rattle.com/poetry/chapbooks/about/]—for
each of those, a submission fee of $20 includes a one-year
subscription to the magazine.
VERY IMPORTANT:
Multiple poems may not be submitted separately. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL
POEMS/ESSAYS TOGETHER IN ONE DOCUMENT. All the work you submit must
be contained in a single computer file. Make only one submission of up
to four poems and/or essays within a category at a time. DO NOT
MAKE ANOTHER SUBMISSION IN THAT SAME CATEGORY UNTIL WE'VE
REPLIED (usually takes 1 - 3 months). Subsequent submissions within
the same category will be deleted unread. If you'd like to withdraw
a single poem and not the whole submission, just log in and add a note
to let us know which (under the "activity" tab in your submission).
INCLUDE BOTH YOUR EMAIL AND POSTAL ADDRESSES SOMEWHERE IN THE
FILE (either on the first page or as a header), so that we have them
on paper if we print the file.
For more detailed information about rights, rules, privacy, and
payments for publication, or to submit by another means, visit our
full guidelines
[http://www.rattle.com/poetry/submissions/guidelines/].
NOTE: Please don't query to ask if we have a reply to your submission
yet. If the status says "received" or "in-progress," then it's
received and in-progress. We always go as fast as we can, but we're
only human and the submission flow waxes and wanes, so response times
vary.
