The Orchards Poetry Journal
Open now for poetry.
Last checkedThe Orchards Poetry Journal is a biannual poetry journal accepting submissions by email for its winter 2026 issue.
Response time info: within three months
Read the full guidelines at orchardspoetry.com↗Submission calls
poetryPays: First place receives $50; second place receives $30 through The Grantchester Award.
Accepts one to three completed poems in a single Word document; translations are not accepted. Poems longer than one 6×9 page are unlikely to be accepted; no poems over 80 lines and no more than one poem over 40 lines. Rhymed traditional forms and finely wrought free verse are welcome. Submissions are open for the winter 2026 issue.
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