Journal Submission Guidelines December 1st - March 15th Send your submission during the reading period by using our Online Submission Manager. Our open reading period is from December 1st - December 31st. January 1st - March 15th there is a $3 charge per submission. Before submitting, familiarize yourself with our journal - please subscribe or purchase a copy Send no more than six poems (maximum eight pages) Simultaneous submissions are OK but do not send us an email notifying us - instead, please withdraw your submission online, and resubmit Upload only one file containing your work with a brief cover letter Response time is one week to four months If your work is accepted for publication, you will be notified by the editors via email and will receive instructions about the pre-publication process. Barrow Street pays two contributor copies Journal inquiries: inquiry (at) barrowstreet.org Book Submission Guidelines Our book 2016 book contest deadline is June 30th. Please use our Online Submission Manager to submit. Click here for detailed guidelines. (.pdf) The 2016 book contest will be judged by Elaine Equi. Elaine Equi's latest book is Sentences and Rain from Coffee House Press. Her other collections include Click and Clone, Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems, and Voice-Over, which won the San Francisco State Poetry Award. She teaches at New York University and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The New School. Book inquiries: infobarrow (at) gmail.com