Submissions
 
Submissions: Please send 3-5 poems and/or images
to nefariousballerina@shoemusicpress.com. Poems
in the body of an email are better, but you can also
send Word attachments. You must verify that you
are at least 18 years of age when submitting.
Submit only once per reading period.
No
Simultaneous Submissions.
Guidelines must be
followed strictly. We’re looking for intelligence and
passion and not pornography. We care more
about what you say than how you say it; that being
said, we tend to dislike rhyming poems, obvious
metaphors and borderline greeting card verse. On
the other hand, we all but dare you to send us
something you would almost be ashamed for
someone else to see. Honesty is freeing and very
stimulating.

Current Reading period: Submissions are currently
closed
so we can prepare the print edition for
early 2011. For details, please
click here.
Submissions will reopen presumably sometime in
2011.

Publication: Web-based magazine style. Published
poets may be nominated for a Best of the Web
award. A printed format is in the works (
click here).

Payment: Published poets and artists receive
copies of print material when it becomes
available.