Submission Guidelines
Submissions for Sunder are now closed. To learn about future submission opportunities, keep an eye out here or follow us on social media!
General Guidelines:
Sunder is a poetry journal first and foremost, therefore we only accept submissions of poetry at this time. Having said that, we accept poetry in whatever form you make it — if you want to send us a voice memo or an extravagantly-formatted PDF, we can’t wait to see it.
We only publish poetry made by people who identify as D/deaf, disabled, or chronically ill. Your work doesn’t have to be about these things, but should be informed by lived experience of disability/illness.
We believe in the social model of disability— our community have diverse lived experiences to share, and all experiences/disabilities/illnesses are welcome. If you have any questions about whether Sunder is the place for your work, get in touch.
What we don't care about:
-font choice (except maybe no Windings, unless it’s a decoding situation)
-line spacing and margins
-how you choose to punctuate your work
-whether you send us a PDF or Word Doc (we can accept PDFs, .doc, .mp3, .mp4, .jped, .png, and .mov files. If you don’t see the file type you work in here, send us a message and we’ll see what we can do)
What we do care about:
-whether your work has already been published (simultaneous submissions are ok, but please withdraw your poem(s) if they’re published before we get to them)
-you identify as D/deaf, disabled, or chronically ill
-your work does not contain any content that is racist, homophobic, transphobic, sex-worker phobic, promotes violence, or the stigmatisation of marginalised peoples.
-you live in so-called ‘Australia’
Payment:
We pay $150 per poem published on the website.
