Submission and Award Guidelines
Poetry Submissions:
We read only email submissions. Poems should be pasted as plain text (no html) into the body of the message only; do not
send attachments. Please submit up to three poems, put your name in the subject line of the email and include a brief
bio with your submission. We often respond within four weeks. If you do not receive a decision within eight weeks, please
feel free to send a note of inquiry. As a matter of respect and basic courtesy we will never knowingly neglect to respond to submissions made following
our guidelines, so if you don't hear from us it may mean that your submission, or our response, was lost in transmission.
Important: Copy and include the following permission statement with your submission.
The DMQ Review does not consider submissions of previously published poetry. Simultaneous submissions
are acceptable, so long as you tell us that the poem is under consideration elsewhere and let us
know immediately if and when it gets accepted elsewhere. Upon DMQ's notification of acceptance of simultaneously
submitted work, you must immediately withdraw that work from consideration elsewhere.
Send submissions to editors@dmqreview.com.
The DMQ Review receives first serial rights to the poetry it publishes. Reprint rights revert to
the author three months after the first day of publication in The DMQ Review. This means that
the author of a work is then free to have it republished elsewhere, as long as 1) other publishers
do not require first rights AND 2) those publishers credit the work's first publication
in The DMQ Review.
I guarantee that the work I am submitting is my own original poetry. I guarantee that this work has never been
published electronically or in print, and that it has not been accepted for publication elsewhere. I understand and agree
that The DMQ Review acquires first serial rights for poetry and I offer The DMQ Review first serial rights on the work I
am submitting; I agree that if The DMQ Review accepts my work for publication, first publication acknowledgement to The DMQ
Review will appear with the work in any subsequent publications. I understand and agree that poems published in The DMQ
Review shall not be published elsewhere before or within a period of three months from their DMQ Review release date. I give
The DMQ Review the right to publish and archive accepted work. I understand that The DMQ Review presents poems and visual art together and I grant The DMQ Review
permission to present my work with art of the editors' choosing.
Please send a working URL where we may view samples of your work. Mail to
editors@dmqreview.com. Please include the following permission statement with your email:
If your work is accepted for publication we will ask you to provide a clean .jpg copy via email,
approximately 3-4 inches high.
I guarantee that the work I am submitting is my own and that I own the copyrights.
I give The DMQ Review permission to publish and archive said work
electronically,
and to republish the work in a future print or CD version of the issue in
which the work
appears, or in a future DMQ Review anthology, if such a project should occur.
I understand that
The DMQ Review presents poems and visual art together
and I grant The DMQ Review
permission to present my work with poetry
of the editors' choosing.