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Submission Guidelines

Following is a list of general guidelines for submitting poem manuscripts to The New York Quarterly. Follow these guidelines carefully to ensure your poems receive full consideration by our screeners.

1. Include no more than 3-5 poems per submission. Because of the large volume of submissions to NYQ, and our desire to give every poet a fair reading, our screeners cannot spend too much time during a given screening session on one poet's work at the expense of many others whose poems are waiting to be reviewed. If you have a large number of poems you'd like considered, please spread them out over several weeks in groups of 3 to 5 and they will all be read. Mail submissions to:

The New York Quarterly
P.O. Box 2015
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10113


2. Proofread your poems before sending them to us. Misspelled words and typos may bias screeners against your work.
3. Please indicate if your poems are being submitted elsewhere at the same time as to NYQ. NOTE: WE DO NOT PUBLISH PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED POEMS.
4. Include a stamped, self-addressed envelope with submissions. We can't send a response and/or your poems back unless you do. And please don't send postal coupons.
5. Make sure the stamped, self-addressed envelope can contain your submitted poems. If you send an envelope which cannot hold your submissions, your poems will be discarded.
6. Each page of each poem should contain your name and address. Poems continuing onto a second page should be indicated as follows:
Hidden Sunrise, page 2
no stanza break.
Please keep your contact information current.
7. Please don't query us as to when a poem will be considered or published. We have a pretty good track record on these things, but we also usually carry a large backlog of acceptances. Poems are screened and responses are mailed usually within 5 to 6 weeks of our receiving your submissions.

NYQ is not able to send feedback or comments on poem submissions. Screening some 50,000 submissions per year takes enough time—and if we sent comments back on poem submissions, that would get us into mail order workshopping which is not our purpose. The best gauge of the kind of poetry we're looking for is any issue of The New York Quarterly. A more complete discussion of our NYQ screening procedures appears in issue #45 and in our Poet Handbook.