Fabulist Poetry: Where the speculative meets the strange, and the genre-curious find a home.
We believe poetry is a portal. We’re looking for poetry that gazes beyond the ordinary—work that dares, deviates, and dreams. Whether you write about interstellar grief, ghost mothers, quantum longing, or eco-hauntings—or none of the above—we want to read it. We celebrate both genre writers and genre-crossers.
We can’t wait to read you.
Open Call Update
Our December open call for poetry has hit its cap of 150 manuscripts. Check back for updates on our next submissions window.
A Submittable button will appear below during open calls; this is the only way to submit your poetry to our poetry editors.
What to Submit
- Send 2–6 poems per submission.
- Shorter pieces are highly encouraged. (We don’t accept long-form poetry at this time—brevity invites mystery.)
- Submit all poems in one document, unless instructed otherwise.
Standard Format
- Standard fonts only, please: Times New Roman, Garamond, or Georgia
- 12 pt, single-spaced
- .doc, .docx, or .pdf files accepted
For the Form Breakers
If your poem includes unconventional formatting (visual, concrete, spatial, typographic, etc.), we ask that you:
- Submit a high-resolution JPG (300dpi) along with your written document so we can understand and honor your vision.
- Include both the image and a typed version in your submission if possible.
Style & Content
- We love work that stretches the speculative: Afrofuturist elegies, fairy tale fragmentation, post-apocalyptic love poems, poems-as-hexes, and anything else that isn’t easily defined.
- We welcome emergent voices, genre writers, and those writing into/against genre.
- Show us something risky. Break the mold or shape a new one.
Who Should Submit?
- Anyone. Especially the ones who think this isn’t “for them.”
- We especially encourage submissions from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent, immigrants and working-class writers, and others from historically marginalized communities.
Simultaneous Submissions
Yes. Just let us know immediately if a piece is accepted elsewhere.
Previously Published Work
We do not accept previously published work (including personal blogs and social media).
Response Time
We aim to respond within 6–8 weeks. If it’s been longer, feel free to nudge
Payment
We pay a flat fee of $25 per poem, up to four poems total.