Submissions

Welcome to the wabi-sabi style Shadow Pond Journal  (Wabi sabi is an acceptance and appreciation of the impermanent, imperfect and incomplete nature of everything). Below are the general guidelines which may vary occasionally so it's good to double-check them prior to submission.

Enjoy!

Katherine E Winnick 

Founding Editor 

Shadow Pond Journal 

SUBMISSION PERIODS :

10th May - 10th June ( themed) The theme is announced nearer the time in the journal.

10th November - 10th December (unthemed)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES  :

Please submit 3 previously unpublished haiku, senryū, monoku, or duostitch including a kigo and your biography using the submissions form to the left during the submission periods only. If the form does not say sent you may alternatively send the submission to katherinewinnick.wk@gmail.com 

Please avoid plagiarism and AI poetry.

I do not send out rejections. If you have not heard back from me by the end of the submissions period you are free to send your poems rlsewhere.

Your biography will only be displayed in the first instance you appear within the journal thereafter you will purely be in the issue you have been accepted into.

Thereafter, your biography and poetry can be located by using the search engine within the homepage.