Submission Guidelines

How to Submit
 

Send up to three poems in a single submission.

Submit via our Duosuma portal: Submit here

If you cannot afford the submission fee email me: max @ aftershockreview.com

There is a small submission fee of £3 to help with admin and production costs.

We may close submissions early once our quota is filled.

We aim to respond within 8-12 weeks. Please don’t chase unless it’s been longer.

What You Get

All contributors receive a free copy of the magazine.

We treat your work with the care it deserves, and we will shout about it wherever we can.
You give us rights to use the poem on our substack, in print and digital versions and agree to provide a voice note reading or allow Aftershock to read it in your place.

Subscribing
 

It’s not a requirement to subscribe, but it helps. This project is grassroots and grafted together from real lives and real labour. Every subscription funds more poetry, more space, more voices. You can subscribe to our daily podcast and poetry drops here: aftershockpoetry.substack.com
 

Final Word

This isn’t a safe space; but it is a brave one. If your poem feels like a risk, we want to see it.