THRP Poetry - Open Call (Summer 2026 for publication Spring 2027) (200 submission cap)
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We at The Heartland Review Press are interested in reading and publishing your poetry in our Spring/Summer 2026!
We have a poetry open call from April 15 to July 31, 2026; this has a cap of 200 submissions. If we reach 200 submissions before July 31, then the submissions will close and poets will know this because there will not be a place to submit.
Please read (like our publication cycle and timelines) our website: https://elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/community/theheartlandreviewpress/open-calls-for-journal.aspx
Each poet can make one submission (1 Word file) with up to 3 poems.
Authors must be over the age of 18 and must have a United States Postal Address so we can mail you a copy. Many writers ask that we send their copy to family and friends.
We can not publish concrete or shape poems, like “Easter Wings.” We can not print poems with justified margins.
If lines go halfway across the page (beyond 3 inches) when in Time New Roman 12, there is a good possibility that it will likely be 2 lines in our issue. When lines wrap, they will not be indented.
Authors may submit only one entry every open call period. Please don't submit a fiction story and a nonfiction piece in the same reading periods. Please don't submit two times in the open call period. Multiple genre and multiple entries will be declined.
All entries must be original works by the entrant, in English. Plagiarism, which includes the use of third-party poetry, song lyrics, characters, or another person’s universe, without written permission, will result in disqualification. Works generated or created by computer software and/or artificial intelligence will be disqualified. Excessive violence or sex and the use of profane, vulgar, racist or offensive words, determined by the judges, will result in the story being rejected.
We ask for First North American Serial Rights but rights revert back to you upon our publication.
We can not make changes once you have submitted. If you would like to make changes, please withdraw your first submission and submit a new one but be advised that we may have reached our cap for that month or the Open Call may have ended.
Because we do not charge for submission, there is not a monetary payment for this contest. THRP pays 1 contributor copy mailed to the authors of published works who have a United States Postal Service Address. We can not mail to international addresses at this time, so writers who live outside the U.S. - whose mail requires additional processing and forms - often provide an address of friends, relatives, and or their U.S. Consulate. We hope to change this in the future.
Submittable will request authors to compose a 30-40 word. Submittable will ask for the bio AND we'd like to you put it inside your Word file, which will help us with placement in the journal.
Thank you,
Amy Fox-Angerer, Editor in Chief &
The Heartland Review Press Team \