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Presence seeks poems – haiku (including senryu), tanka, renga and related forms – haibun, and relevant essays. All work should be original, unpublished (in print or online, including personal websites, blogs and social media) and not under consideration elsewhere. Please send only one set of submissions per issue in any particular poetic form. Please note that we do not give contributor copies.
Please send only one set of submissions per issue in any particular poetic form: up to 7 haiku (including senryu), 7 tanka, 3 haibun, 3 renga(y) / sequences.
Presence groups poems by the four seasons (and by non-season), and we welcome notes of which season a poem refers to. Please also note any specific formatting details.
The windows for submissions are as follows:
- for the March issue, 15th December–31st January;
- for the July issue, 15th April–31st May;
- for the November issue, 15th August–30th September.
Please do not submit work outside the submission windows. This time is needed for production and distribution purposes, and to give the editorial team a bit of a break.
Submissions for #83
Submission period: 15th August–30th September
Please email submissions to: editorspresence@gmail.com
If any of your poems have an irregular form, please put them in the body of the email but also send a PDF as an attachment.
Include all poems in the body of the text (not as an attachment), and use the relevant subject line:
Haiku submission
Tanka submission
Haibun submission
Renga(y)/sequences submission
We welcome haiku in languages other than English, with an English translation. Please send up to 7 bilingual haiku to Judy Kendall at saiwaicho@ yahoo.co.uk
Submissions received after 23.59 GMT on 30th September will not be read.
We prefer email submissions, but if you are unable to submit by email postal submissions are accepted from the United Kingdom only. Please post your work to the Edinburgh address at the foot of the page and, to ensure a reply, include a stamped s.a.e.
We aim to respond to submissions in the second half of October.
Books for review should be sent with a covering letter to:
Julie Mellor, 22 Park Avenue, Penistone, Sheffield S36 6DN. Please email Julie first if you have any queries: jdmellor390@gmail.com
We regret that, due to the volume of books received, we cannot guarantee a review and there may be delays in publishing reviews. Please note that no books will be returned and pdfs alone are not sufficient. If in doubt, please contact Julie before sending.
Essayists from all parts of the haiku community are welcome and relevant support is provided where needed. Please contact Judy Kendall saiwaicho@yahoo.co.uk Please note that we have material in hand for the next few issues, so any new submissions which are accepted are unlikely to appear this year. However, you are still welcome to contact the essays editor to discuss essay ideas.
Please post your work to Becky Dwyer, 34/1 Ferry Road Avenue, Edinburgh EH4 4BA, and, to ensure a reply, include a stamped s.a.e.
Any work published in Presence may be used on the Presence web site without further permission being sought. Correspondence between the editors and other parties is confidential and may not be reproduced without the written permission of the editor concerned.
We are no longer sending out best-of-issue forms. Please instead list your choices (up to 10) using this link: https://tinyurl.com/Presence82