Submission Guidelines: Please read carefully!
- [FREE] submissions are open from June 23, 2025 – July 13, 2025.
- For this challenge, please submit only once! We hope to offer this free opportunity to as many people as we can without exceeding the reading capacity of our team.
- Your submission must be no more than three poemsand under ten pages. Please submit all your poems in ONE document. Begin each poem on a new page and include each poem’s individual title.
- Submitted poems can take any form and explore any theme or motif.
- DO NOT INCLUDE your name or identifying information in the document OR submission title box.
- We are only accepting unpublished work. If your poem has been published elsewhere, even on a blog or on social media, it is not eligible.
- We accept simultaneous submissions—just please send us a note if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.
- Please include a brief cover letter in the cover letter box with your publication history, if any. This text box is where you can include your name and/or bio! If you select the editorial feedback option, this cover letter is also where you can name which poem you’d like feedback on. To safeguard our reading staff, please include content warnings in the cover letter, if applicable, as well.
- Submissions are open internationally, to any poet writing in English—inclusion of other languages is welcome, as long as the poem is largely written in English. At this time, Palette does not accept translated work unless you are also the author of the original poem.
- Review our FAQ page for frequently asked questions. NOTE: Unlike our other contests, you may only submit once for this challenge.
- NOTE: If after submitting you notice an error in your submission, please message us rather than withdrawing and resubmitting your submission. We can open it to editing once so you can correct the error.
- Palette Poetry does not accept AI-produced work.
- This challenge closes July 13, 2025. Submitters will be notified of their submission status eight to twelve weeks after the contest closing date.
