Welcome to the Marin Poetry Center Submittable page!
We offer two opportunities: the High School Anthology, for students in grades 9-12, and the Members' Anthology, for current MPC members. A little bit about each:
Members' Anthology
Open to any current member of Marin Poetry Center. To renew your membership or to join for the first time, please visit our website: https://marinpoetrycenter.org/join-us/.
Submission Period: Submissions are open June 20-July 31, 2024. This year's theme: A Moment Like None Other.
High School Anthology
The contest is open to any high school student (grades 9-12) residing in the San Francisco Bay Area (not limited to Marin County). We are working hard to reach underrepresented students whose writing has not been included in past contests or anthologies. Please read all guidelines prior to submission.
Submission Period: Submissions to the 2024 High School Anthology are now closed.
The theme or prompt for Marin Poetry Center’s 2024 member’s anthology is: “A Moment Like None Other.” Consider this an opportunity to focus on a specific event, movement, or instant that changed everything. Or, on the flip side: a moment that should have caused a great shift, but did not.
All poetic forms, non-forms, and experiments welcome. Please keep poems to no more than a page or two (we love a one-page poem), and bear in mind that due to the page width of the anthology, long lines may have to be broken. Sadly, we cannot include images or graphics at this time.
Each poet may submit up to three poems IN ONE FILE. Please single space, unless your poem is specifically meant to have the extra white space, using 12 point Garamond or Times New Roman. Prose poems should be 1.5 spaced with R/L justified (block). If the poem has previously been published, please include that information at the bottom of that poem. At the bottom of the submission, please include a brief (up to 150 words) third-person bio.
As this is the member's anthology, please check your membership to make sure you are up-to-date. Questions regarding membership: info@marinpoetrycenter.org
Submissions close on August 15, 2024.
Questions? Comments? Feel free to email me at anthology@marinpoetrycenter.org
I can’t wait to read your poems!
Linda