Submissions



Submit to Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal

We are happy to consider your work for publication in our online poetry journal and/or any themed anthology. We look forward to reading it and, perhaps, getting to know you better through this poetry community. 

At this time, we can offer only publishing credit for your work online or in print. We do hope to be able to do more as Orenaug Mountain Publishing matures.

We will read and respond to your submission as soon as we can. Due to the volume of submissions, we may not let you know of acceptance for the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal (OMPJ). If you do not hear from us with questions or a schedule, we have decided not to publish your work. 

Number of Submissions
You may submit one poem per month. As the number of submissions have greatly increased in recent months, we are scheduling poems for publication in the OMPJ three to four months in advance. 

Please do not submit a piece that you have submitted elsewhere if the other publication will require exclusive rights for any period of time. Once your poem has been scheduled for the journal or been laid out in an anthology, we will not remove it from its place.

Submission Requirements
  • Submit your poems using our form, especially for the anthologies. We use the form for contact and social media information, and it's best when all the entries are in one place.

    • There are instructions on the form about what to do if your poem contains any unusual spacing or italics. 

    • We'll do our best to duplicate, but as a web page is different from a printed page, it may not look exactly as you intended.

  • Submit only your best work and final drafts. Be sure you have taken the time to edit and revise your poems until they are the best they can be. We will consider publishing your poem provided your submission meets minimum literary standards, including spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and is not offensive and/or hateful.

    • We will not publish anything that arrives with multiple typos or missing words.

      • Paste your poem into the window of the form in the condition you would expect to publish it if you were publishing on your own.
  • You may submit poems that have previously been published elsewhere, provided they appeared at least a year before on the day of your submission to us. While we are always looking for new and original work, we also understand that you may have written poems for which you'd like more exposure. 

    • Please include the date and place where a previously published work appeared.
Special Cases
  • Please do not submit any experimental poetry. We will not publish it.

  • If you submit haikus, please include three pieces within the same submission. While the form has only one title field, you can submit your three haikus in the body field with their titles.