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Call for new children’s poems
We are currently open for submissions of poems for children on the theme ‘Big Things’
Send us your poems for children by 31 December 2024
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!
Please read the guidelines below before submitting your poems.
- Please send up to three unpublished poems on the theme ‘Big Things’ by midnight GMT on 31 December 2024. You are always welcome to interpret the theme as you wish.
- We strongly recommend reading a previous issue of Tyger Tyger Magazine to get a feel for it. We always appreciate knowing which poems in the magazine you have recently enjoyed.
- 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 as soon as you can 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 welcome to resubmit poems we have already seen, if they suit the new theme.
- 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); on Tyger Tyger Magazine’s TES page, where poem posters and resources are available for free download by users.
- 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 three months 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.
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Got some children’s poems on a different theme?
We recommend checking out these wonderful places to submit:
The Toy: thetoypress.com
The Dirigible Balloon: dirigibleballoon.org
Northern Gravy: northerngravy.com
Paperbound Magazine: paperboundmag.com
Paper Lanterns: paperlanternslit.com
The Emma Press: theemmapress.com
And here are some of our favourite children’s poetry resources:
The Children’s Poetry Archive: childrens.poetryarchive.org
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: clpe.org.uk/poetry
The Poetry Society’s Poetryclass: poetrysociety.org.uk/education/poetryclass/
The Children’s Poetry Summit blog: childrenspoetrysummit.com/
Poetry by Heart: poetrybyheart.org.uk/
The Poetry Foundation’s children’s section: poetryfoundation.org/learn/children
Current issue
Enjoy our current issue of sixteen brand-new poems for children, on the theme of Small Things.
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Join our call for new children’s poems! For more information, see our submissions page.
Resources
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