the other side of hope:
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our reading period for
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the other side of hope:
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our reading period for
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For the other tongue, mother tongue issue we consider poetry written in any language (apart from English).
Open to refugee, asylum seeker, and immigrant poets only (worldwide). From 2024, each issue will be publish both in print and online. Send us up to two poems written in your own language. Please state in English the language the poems are written in. There is no theme; you don’t have to send us work that relates to the refugee or immigrant experience. Please send us your poetry in a single file (in a Word document please). Please don’t send us online files. If your poem is selected for publication, you can self-translate it or a member of our Translations Advisory Group will translate it into English. Our advisory group covers the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, Belarusian, Bosnian, Cantonese, Chechen, ChiShona, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Eʋe, Filipino, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Igbo, Indonesian, Ingush, Italian, Jamaican Creole, Japanese, Khmer, Kiikamba, Kinaray-a, Kurdish, Malay, Mandarin, Marathi, Mauritian Creole, Montenegrin, Nigerian Pidgin English, Pahari, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Punjabi in Urdu script, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, SiNdebele, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Tatar, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba. If your poem is in a language not included in this list, please submit it. We will try to find an evaluator for your poem and, if selected, a translator, but we can’t guarantee it. Cover letter: include your name, short bio, country of origin and the country you currently live in. Email us your work at submissions.otherside@gmail.com Payment: we offer £50 per published poet. Accepted poets who are seeking asylum and do not have a bank account will receive a £50 online gift card (you choose which one and we'll try to get it for you). Contributors will also receive one complimentary copy of the issue in which their work appears. Please note that we can only pay via PayPal (worldwide) or into UK bank accounts. Due to high international transaction fees, we cannot transfer fees into non-UK bank accounts. Response time: It can take us up to 7 months to get back to you. Apologies for slow responses. Copyright: After we publish your work in the other side of hope, all rights revert to our authors. Published authors do not need our permission to reprint, though we appreciate an acknowledgement of first publication. Submission fee: We do not and will never charge submission fees. |
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