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Submission Guidelines:

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We'll try and keep this brief and easy for everyone.​

What to send:

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  • Your original work

  • 1-3 poems in the body of an email​

  • Poems up to 20 lines

  • Prose poems up to 150 words

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Please include a 50 word, third person biography with your submission.

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Simultaneous submissions are fine - just drop us a follow up email if they are accepted somewhere else first. 

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What not to send:

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  • AI generated work​

  • Previously published work, including things that have appeared on social media

  • Poems over 20 lines

  • Prose poems over 150 words

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Please include a 50 word, third person biography with your submission.

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The Ts & Cs:

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By submitting your work to The Swine, you confirm that:

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  • It is your own work that you have copyright of​

  • Your work is not AI generated

  • You are happy to grant us first electronic rights and electronic archival rights

  • If the work subsequently appears elsewhere, you will credit The Swine as the place of first publication

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The Swine is not a profit making publication and we are unable to pay writers. 

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