Verse Afire

Canadian Poetry Magazine

A Biannual Publication (ISSN: 1715-0280)

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Members Only Submission Call: June 2026 Issue

Theme: "Totally Tributes"

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Submission Guidelines:
  • Content: Poems dedicated to anyone instrumental in your life. Must include an epigraph under the title. No elegies, but can be about someone now gone.
  • Length: Maximum 40 lines (stanza spaces count as lines).
  • Width: No more than 6 long or 8 short words per line to fit our two-column format.
  • Format: Arial Narrow 11pt font, single spaced. MS Word file preferred.
Reviews of Verse Afire:

As a new magazine we welcome and are actively seeking official reviews from other literary sources / publications and are happy to mail you a hard copy or email a pdf of the requested issue. If we haven't already contacted you and you would like to assist us, please be sure to contact Bunny Iskov, Publisher (ibunny@roger.com) or Ronda Wicks, Editor (rondawicks@hotmail.com) with the pertinent information we need to follow-up. Thank you sincerely!

Send to: ibunny@rogers.com
By Mail: Attn: I.B. Iskov, The Ontario Poetry Society, #710 - 65 Spring Garden Ave., Toronto, ON, M2N 6H9
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