The editorial team for Between Time and Text is pleased to announce our international open call for poetry submissions! The theme for our upcoming issue is poems inspired by nature. The submission deadline is Saturday, January 31st, 2027 at 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time.
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/gGNUSHjGTHz53B5o9
Possible topics could include but are not limited to: nature and the sublime, natural impulses, organic and overgrown imagery, ecocriticism or environmentalism, surrealist nature, outdoor exploration, wilderness survival, returning to nature, slow living, climate change, climate change anxiety, climate change grief, environmental collapse, environmental reclamation, deforestation and reforestation, intimate connections to the land, forest ecology, life cycles, environmental ethics, biocentricism, anthropocentricism, agriculture and gardening, cultivated and uncultivated land, and poetic responses to settler colonial narratives about uncultivated or empty land.
The editorial team welcomes original poetry in English or poems in other languages with accompanying English translations. Authors are welcome and encouraged to submit 1 to 3 poems in PDF or word format. We recommend that your submission be a maximum of 6 pages for sake of ease, though you are more than welcome to submit substantially shorter or longer works of poetry. Interdisciplinary approaches and unconventional perspectives are highly encouraged. Please reach out to betweentimeandtext@gmail.com for any questions or clarifications. Selected poets will be notified four to five weeks after the submission deadline.
Rolling Submissions
Between Time and Text also accepts academic and creative submissions on a rolling basis throughout the year. Scroll down to learn more about our submission requirements and processes.
Accepted Genres
- Original poetry in English or poems in other languages with accompanying English translations, up to 3 poems in PDF or word format, maximum 6 pages
- Book reviews in PDF or word format, ranging from 1,000-1,600 words
- Digital illustrations, photography and other visual art in JPEG or PNG format, minimum print quality of 300 dots per inch
- Print sheet music or other musical notation such as annotations, tabs or charts in various formats
- Multimedia content in various formats, maximum 8 pages
- Early modern scholarship and academic articles in word or PDF format with MLA citations, maximum 20 pages
Submission Instructions
Submissions should be emailed to betweentimeandtext@gmail.com. Please remove any and all identifying information from your documents to help us ensure a consistently anonymous and unbiased review process. If you are submitting more than one document, please attach upload individual files rather than one combined file.
Accessibility and Inclusion
Between Time and Text is dedicated to publishing compelling content from early career scholars and emerging artists around the globe. We are also mindful of the traditionally exclusive nature of academia and would especially encourage submissions from traditionally underrepresented or disadvantaged voices. If you have any concerns about the accessibility of our submission and publishing process, please reach out to us and we will do our best to accommodate your needs and improve our internal processes.
Rights and Restrictions
Individual contributing authors and artists retain legal copyright over their original work. There are no restrictions on submitting or publishing your work with another journal, magazine or website. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Creative works are published with the express permission of creators, all rights reserved.
