Submit your work

You don’t need a track record as a poet generally or a children’s poet specifically; we are keen to encourage as many people as possible to experience the important joy of writing poetry for children!

When submissions are open, please read the guidelines below before submitting your poems.

• Please send up to three unpublished poems on the given theme. You are always free to interpret the theme as you wish.
• We strongly recommend reading a previous issue of Tyger Tyger Magazine to get a feel for it.
• Poems should be up to 40 lines long and aimed at readers aged 7-11 years old.
• Please include a short covering note and a third-person biography of up to 80 words with your submission.
• Please paste your poems into the body of an email and send them to tygertygermagazine@gmail.com.
• We welcome submissions from everyone, everywhere in the world, as long as you are aged 18 or over.
• Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer payment for work published. Tyger Tyger Magazine is run on a voluntary basis.
• Feel free to submit the same poems elsewhere but please let us know promptly if another publication snaps them up.
• If you have recently submitted or been published in Tyger Tyger Magazine, you are most welcome to submit again on the next theme. You are also welcome to resubmit poems we have already seen.
• By submitting, you consent for your work to be featured in perpetuity: online on the Tyger Tyger Magazine website; as a freely downloadable poster; as part of a freely downloadable teaching resource (three poems will be selected each issue; the resources will also be published on TES).
• Poets retain copyright to their poems. Please do mention us if you go on to publish your poem elsewhere.
• We respond to all submissions and aim to do so within twelve weeks of the closing date. Give us a nudge after that time if you haven’t heard back.
• The decision of the editorial team is final; we will not enter into further correspondence.