Verse Afire Canadian Poetry Magazine
A Biannual Publication

MEMBERS ONLY SUBMISSION CALL
Poems for the January 2025 issue of Verse Afire

Theme: Favourite Places

Poems about your favourite place are wanted for the next issue of Verse Afire. Only one place is preferred. It could be your own backyard, your bedroom, or it could be a favourite city you have visited, like Paris France or Rome Italy or London England or Pontypool Ontario. It could also be an imaginary place you created in your mind, or a place you visited in a dream.

Poems to be no longer than 40 lines and the stanza spaces count as lines. No more than 6 long or 8 short words per line, to allow room for another poem to fit beside yours in the page's second column. If lines are too long, the Editor reserves the right to break them with careful consideration to content. If breaking lines results in a poem that violates the length guideline you will be asked to replace it with a shorter poem in a timely manner. Previously published poems are welcome as long as you include publication credits. All styles are welcome. No lewd, foul or culturally discriminating content and no heavy slant on religion.

Deadline for the January 2025 issue is October 31st, 2024.

E-mail in an MSWORD file to ibunny@rogers.com and put Poem for Verse Afire in the subject bar.

If no access to the internet, send your hard copy poem at least 2 weeks prior to the deadline to:

Attn: IB. Iskov, Verse Afire Editor
The Ontario Poetry Society
#710 - 65 Spring Garden Ave.
Toronto, ON
M2N 6H9

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!

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