Online Submission

  Submission Guidelines  
  • Before you submit, make sure you have read some issues of 14 by 14 and understand that we publish sonnets only.
  • Submit via online form (preferred) or email.
  • Send UP TO THREE sonnets per submission. A maximum of TWO will be accepted.
  • Wait two months before submitting again.
  • There is currently no specific theme for submissions, but sometimes we might ask for submissions to fit a theme.
  • We prefer unpublished sonnets but will use a proportion of previously published work (mention previous publication with submission). Workshopped sonnets are not considered published.
  • Sim-subs (where a sonnet is on submission to us and other editors at the same time) are OK — but let us know quickly if a sonnet is accepted elsewhere while still under consideration at 14 by 14.
  • Expect a response within one to four weeks.

If we accept two sonnets from you at one time, they will not be published together. An accepted sonnet will be published (with highlighting on the 14 by 14 front page) within eight weeks, remain highlighted there for four to eight weeks, and thereafter be accessible via month archive, author index, and search.

Sorry, it is not currently possible for us to pay contributors. However, we are looking at running occasional competitions with a small entry fee and cash prizes.


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SUBMISSION TEXT:

Type in or paste in up to three sonnets below. Note the special paste instructions if you are using Firefox. Italics, bold text, line indents and spacing are kept; most other formatting is not. Don’t worry about formatting sonnet titles, epigraphs or endnote in smaller text or italics, etc. Those details will be fixed to our style if we accept your sonnet.

Paste first, type and edit after. Use Enter to make a paragraph break; use Shift+Enter to make a line break. Use the button to indent a line.

THIS form works best with Windows Internet Explorer. FIREFOX default security settings disallow Copy and Paste via button controls. In Firefox, to paste in content from MS Word or other formatted source, click in the editor window first, then press Shift+Insert.

Fix paragraph/line breaks after pasting text.
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BRIEF BIO NOTE (up to 5 lines or 60 words):

Please keep the bio note short and include no more than one web link. We may additionally hyperlink one or more listed publication credits if we publish your work. You can paste in here from Word or other formatted source text, as noted above for the submission text area.

  Send me an email message confirming my submission
If you are set up to read formatted (HTML) mail, the message will show your submission exactly as received. If you read mail only in plain text, the confirmation will show the text and line breaks as submitted, but formatting such as italics will be absent and special characters such as quotes and em dashes may not appear correctly even though we received them correctly.

Anti-spam: please read the characters below and type the sequence of characters into the empty box before you click the Submit button.

   
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(Coming soon: “ReCaptcha” with audio) Click the Submit button ONCE only, and be patient. Sometimes you might need to wait 30-60 seconds for confirmation.

We aim to publish good 14-line poems in modern English that are recognisably (to us) sonnets. Please note our revised guidelines. We now accept simultaneous submissions and will consider previously published sonnets, while preferring new material.

If you submit to us, we assume you agree to your work being archived indefinitely on this site.

How are we defining a sonnet?

As a 14-line poem that seems sonnet-like to the editor.

There are several features often considered characteristic of sonnets. The fourteen-line poem might be in a form (meter and probably rhyme) reminiscent of traditional sonnets; it might be cast as an argument or meditation with a “turn” or volta somewhere in the later lines, typically around Line 9. While no specific characteristic is an inflexible requirement, a submission that does not have a sonnet “feel” to it probably won’t be selected.

Selection

Up to and including Issue 11, our sonnets have been selected “blind” by an international panel of American, British and Australian writers and editors. In future, as with most journals, the Editor will make the selections, though he may informally seek the assistance of others from time to time.