We're back refreshed
after our short break.
The big news is that December Snakeskin
will be a book fair. Any poets who have published
a book or pamphlet of verse over the past year are
invited to contact us. If we think your book is
suitable, we ask you to send a sample
poem, a short introduction and a link to where the
book can be bought - and these will go online on
December 1st - in time for Christmas shoppers.
November Snakeskin will be a standard issue
- so please send us some high-quality poems to
make it a high-standard issue.
George
A reminder:
For those who don't get how Snakeskin
works - each number of the zine is made up of the
contributions sent in during the previous month.
We rarely keep poems over to the next issue (and
if we do, we let you know about it. We know that
there are magazines out there - especially print
ones - which take pride in building up a backlog,
and keeping poets dangling for months wondering
whether they'll be accepted or not. We don't do
that. We tell you which month you'll be considered
for - and then you're either in it or you're not.
We try to notify poets whose work has not been
selected, but in some months this requires major
effort, and life can get in the way. There's a
huge number of rejection notes to be sent this
month, but we'll try to get them out within a few
days. And we'll try to be positive, where we can.
Send those contributions (in the body of an
email, please, not as attachments ) to editor@snakeskin.org.uk.
George
For details of the editor's collection, Old
and Bookish, please click on the cover
picture below.
Two blog posts may be of
interest to potential contributors to Snakeskin
.
The first, on "How
Snakeskin Works", explains the simple
procedure by which contributions are selected for
a month's issue.
The second, called "Don't"
offers some tips to novice poets, detailing a few
of the things that might make an editor take
against your work.
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