Tinderbox Poetry Journal

10/01/2024

📚 We are accepting book review submissions! 📚 Is there a poetry collection that you want to uplift? How about a chapbook or micro collection that stunned you? We want to hear about it! Please read our Review Guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3GuVd54.

Pitch us a review at our email: [email protected]. Or submit a complete review for consideration at our Submittable: https://rb.gy/jhj2hc Questions? Email [email protected]. We encourage first-time reviewers to submit as well!

:: Tinderbox Poetry Journal welcomes new and emerging voices. We are a paying market and pay each contributor $15 regardless of number of poems selected. We publish four issues per year timed with the lunar calendar: Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. Past contri...

15/09/2023

✨ Our sub box is open for the next two weeks! ✨ Submissions are free, but we appreciate Tip Jar submissions ($3) that help us keep the proverbial lights on. Guidelines here:

:: Tinderbox Poetry Journal welcomes new and emerging voices. We are a paying market and pay each contributor $15 regardless of number of poems selected. We publish two issues per year on or around Summer and Winter Solstice and nominate for Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. Pas...

02/08/2023

For our 2023 BEJ Prize, we invite Latinx/Latine writers to submit to the contest for free. You can find the Sponsored Submission option at our Submittable link:

:: Tinderbox Poetry Journal welcomes new and emerging voices. We are a paying market and pay each contributor $15 regardless of number of poems selected. We publish two issues per year on or around Summer and Winter Solstice and nominate for Pushcart Prizes, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. Pas...

01/08/2023

Tinderbox is pleased to announce our 2023 poetry prizes, the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize and the Majda Gama Editors’ Prize.

There are no limitations in form or content; we are interested in everything from traditional forms to free verse to lyric essay to flash fiction. Poems can be multiple pages as long as the total entry does not exceed eight pages. The entry fee is $15 for 3 poems, 1 poem per page.

In order to support vital literary community, we are offering sponsored submissions for readers for whom fees are a barrier to access. A portion of each submission fee supports sponsored submissions. This year we invite the Latinx/Latine poetry community to submit to the contest for free.

Tinderbox readers and editors will read submissions, 15 of which will be passed on to our judge for their final decision. The judge will select the winner of the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize. This year’s final judge is Paul Hlava Ceballos. The editors will select the Majda Gama Editors’ Prize winner from the remaining finalists.

The winners of each prize will receive $500. The winners and all finalists will be published in our Winter Solstice issue in December. Please put all poems in one document, as only one document is permitted per entry. For more details, see the guidelines on our Submittable page: https://tinderboxpoetryjournal.submittable.com/submit

30/07/2023

One of our Poetry Readers, Bo Hee Moon, will be one of the featured readers at the next Poets in Pajamas! This virtual reading takes place on Sunday, July 30th at 7pm EST.

From PiP: Poets in Pajamas (PiP) is a live-feed online reading series presented by Sundress Publications. We bring live poetry, complete with Q&A and poet interaction, to you. We don’t ask you to dig out a scarf, no, we welcome you as you are and bring the poetry. Won’t you join us? We often draw a diverse audience from around the world and we’d love it if you, too, were there.

Our next episode will air on Sunday, July 30th 2023, featuring Ashia Ajani and Bo Hee Moon. On behalf of Sundress Publications, Sarah Jordan Stout and Aslan Gossett will host.