Send your submission during the reading period by using our Online Submission Manager. The reading period for Barrow Street Journal is currently OPEN. Submissions may be made for free from Dec. 1 until Dec. 15. Dec. 15-March 31, there is a $3 charge per submission, or for a $10 charge, you may submit your poems AND receive a 1-year subscription to our annual journal. Submit up to five manuscript pages. Name, address, and email should appear on each page. Submissions that exceed the maximum cannot be read.
Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please contact Managing Editor Michael Broek immediately at michael@barrowstreet.org if a poem is accepted elsewhere. Upload only one file containing your work with a brief cover letter. Response time is two to four months.
If your work is accepted for publication, you will be notified by the editors via email and will receive instructions about the pre-publication process. Barrow Street pays two contributors’ copies.