Thank you for your interest in submitting to the "Upon Learning That" Poetry Anthology. This project is dedicated to making poetry more accessible to all by sharing it through the lens of interesting facts about the world that we share. Selected poems will be featured in a poetry anthology which will be published in summer, 2025.
Reading Period:
January 1st - April 1st, 2025.
Please allow 3 months maximum response time.
Submission Guidelines:
Please be sure to title your poems with "Upon Learning that + fact", followed by your poem. To maintain the integrity of the project, the fact in the title should not be a fact about yourself, but rather, an interesting fact about some aspect of the world around us.
Please submit only previously unpublished poems. Poems previously posted on social media are considered unpublished and will still be considered.
Please note that this project is being undertaken by an individual and therefore there is no funding available (or the ability to provide a complimentary copy to those that are published). The anthology will be widely available for purchase upon publication.
Publishing Rights:
We ask for first time worldwide rights for accepted pieces. Following publication, all rights revert back to the author. Please note that your work first appeared in The "Upon Learning That" Anthology if it is reprinted anywhere else on the web or in print. By submitting to this anthology, you confirm that you are the sole owner of the work and that the work does not infringe upon the copyright or other rights of anyone. By submitting, you grant permission to the publisher to share the published material(s) and the contributors’ name in the publication as well as on the publisher’s digital platforms for the purpose of promoting the work and/or the creator.