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Submission Rules and Guidelines Introduction Poetry Art Fiction Non-Fiction
Introduction (applies to all submissions): The Poet's Haven is intended to be a place for those who work "outside the box" to feel safe seeing their work published. We offer no restrictions on genre, length, or style, and minimal restriction on content. What little content that is disallowed is as follows: Material that is obscene, excessively vulgar, pornographic, racist, or of a religious nature will not be published here.
This site is intended for mature readers. Our primary audience is college-aged, between 18 and 30. Our audience is NOT limited to that demographic, however. We have knowingly published work from creators as young as 11 and as old as 95.
We are free to publish what we wish, but will maintain a level of decency. Therefore, nothing obscene, pornographic, or racist will be accepted.
As for The Poet's Haven's refusal to publish religious work, the simplest explanation is that we wish to offer a place free from all forms of emotional restraint. Organized religion leads to ostrization and eventually, war. The terrorists threatening the free world today use religion to further their agendas. On this same note, The Poet's Haven will send work putting down the followers of any certain religion into the same rejection bin as work of a racist nature.
Additionally, work that is badly misspelt or in need of severe grammatical or punctual corrections will be rejected. Your word processor program has a spell checker. Spell Checker is your friend. Use it.
All submissions MUST be made through the online forms. We are NOT accepting ANY submissions via e-mail or snail-mail unless it is specifically noted.
The Poetry Gallery makes up the largest part of The Poet's Haven. The emphasis sought is emotion rather than form. Nothing pornographic, excessively vulgar, racist, or religious will be accepted.
All work submitted must be reviewed and approved by a senior Poet's Haven staff member.
Nothing pornographic, racist, or religious will be accepted. Use of religious iconography may be acceptable as part of a larger work of art, to be determined on a case-by-case basis. Acceptability of nudity in artwork will be determined on a case-by-case basis as well. Nude photographs are not accepted for publication (though they may be added to various staff members' private collections). Photography should be creative.
JPEG format files are preferred, and the image should be 500 pixels wide. Larger images will be resized. If you do not have access to a digital camera or a scanner, try a Kinko's Copies or Office Max.
We reserve the right to change file types, resize the image, or clip edges for space as needed. If we feel a major change is necessary, you will be contacted. If you see a change was made and you don't like it, please contact us.
Nothing pornographic, excessively vulgar, racist, or religious will be accepted. Stories must be original, and feature original characters. NO FAN-FICTION! Characters based on mythological figures or fairy-tales are acceptable. References to heaven, hell, angels, and demons are okay, as these do not directly pertain to any one religious faith. Subjects such as King Arthur's quest for the holy grail, where religious motive is part of a story's background but NOT the story itself, are acceptable.
Other than true story essays which would be submitted the same as fiction, non-fiction is limited to The Poet's Haven Special Feature. The Special Feature is an editorial type essay about a current event or ongoing controversy. Events must be of national or global interest, as the audience is not confined to one region. The idea is to make people think about something from an angle they never have before.
Reviews of books, albums, films, and video games can be submitted. Reviews must be tasteful and appropriate. The words "this sucks" or "this kicks ass" do not make a review. Do not spoil the ending of a story. Multiple reviews of the same item from different reviewers can be published. Write your own review, however, and don't argue with another person's opinion. Items reviewed must be available from at least one of the online retailers listed on this linked page. The sole exceptions to this rule are films currently playing in theaters that have not been released on video or DVD yet.
To get a Featured Review, the author or publisher must provide a copy of their book, CD, film, or game to be reviewed. The item will be reviewed by a Poet's Haven staff member or associate. Featured book reviews will include a short selection from the book (i.e. the first chapter or two). Featured CD reviews will include short sound samples from the album (each no longer than 40 seconds). Featured movie and game reviews will include screen-shots. Submit a Book Review
Submit a media item for a Featured Review:
The Poet's Haven receives the rights to publish all work submitted both on the web site and in any future paper publications. The author of a work retains full ownership and is free to have it published elsewhere, provided the other publishers do not require first-time or exclusive rights.
Submissions must be made by either the creator of a work, or on behalf of the creator. PLAGIARISM IS A CRIME, AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED! We will assist any investigations of a submitter for fraud to the best of our abilities. Works of established (meaning, published and in print) authors may be submitted ONLY as part of an art piece. If you are submitting a work on behalf of the creator, be certain to give us a way to contact him or her, other than through your e-mail, if need be. A postal address will work fine. The author or artist MUST BE AWARE THAT THEIR WORK IS BEING SUBMITTED! Again, all work is copyright ©, property of, and fully owned by its original author or artist.
Due to time restraints, we are not able to critique each and every item submitted.
Along with your work, we include a link for readers to contact you via e-mail. If you do not wish to be contacted through a family or work e-mail address, we recommend setting up a Hotmail or Yahoo account for your personal use. You may also list a link to your own website. All website links will be checked by staff before your work is approved.
JavaScript encryption is used when displaying your e-mail address to prevent "robots" from harvesting addresses for spam.
Access to The Poet's Haven web site is free of charge. Any actual profit brought in by advertisements either goes toward promoting the site or towards the offline publications. We can not pay for work to be published on the site. The payment structure for publication in The Poet's Haven Digest is as follows: Each author and artist with work appearing in The Poet's Haven Digest will receive one complimentary copy. Authors and artists wanting additional copies can purchase as many as they wish for wholesale pricing. Wholesale cost may vary by issue.
Disclaimer (this is VERY important!): The Poet's Haven is a privately held publishing company. This is not an open forum. We, the publisher and editors, reserve the right to refuse any submission for any reason we see fit. This includes work that we feel is questionable, may be in violation of any of the above guidelines, or that we have any objection to. We have a strict policy of "ZERO TOLERANCE for bullshit." If you attempt to cause problems by initiating spam campaigns, attempting a DDOS attack, or harassing any member of The Poet's Haven staff, you will be blocked from accessing this site.
The Poet's Haven website should be thought of no differently than a paper print publication. If your poem is published in The Poet's Haven Digest and a year later you decide you don't like the piece anymore, we can not simply go through all remaining copies of the issue and tear out the page. On the same note, we will not entertain any requests for removing a poem from the site on the basis of the author not liking his or her older work. Removal requests can be made for the following reasons ONLY; reports of plagiarism and copyright issues, such as exclusive rights being sold to another publisher PRIOR to the piece's submission to The Poet's Haven. Proof is required to accompany all removal requests.
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