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submissions are currently closed.
coastlines review welcomes submissions of poetry and hybrid work that engage with documentary materials, archival fragments, preserved history, and the question of what gets recorded and what gets erased.
what we’re looking for
- poetry that incorporates or responds to documentary sources
- work that interrogates the archive — what it holds and what it omits
- hybrid forms that blur the line between document and imagination
- pieces that explore testimony, memory, and evidence
submission guidelines
- submit 3–5 poems or 1–2 hybrid/longer works
- include everything in a single pdf or word document
- add a brief bio (100 words max) in the body of your email
- simultaneous submissions are fine — just let us know if work is accepted elsewhere
- previously published work isn’t accepted
we also welcome visual submissions — collage, photography, mixed media, and other image-based work that engages with documentary sources, or that explores coastlines themselves and what they evoke. send high-resolution files (jpg, png, or tiff) as attachments.
good to know
- feel free to include an author’s note or any contextualizing information if you feel the work benefits from it
- include notes for any outside sources quoted or referenced in your work
- we do not accept ai-generated work
- we aim to respond within 2 weeks
send submissions to coastlinesreview@gmail.com
incarcerated writers
we accept mailed-in submissions from incarcerated writers. this option stays open year-round, even when submissions are otherwise closed. the guidelines above still apply, but a typed or handwritten manuscript is fine. along with your mailing address, please include contact information for jpay, getting out, or securus where possible, which enables us to reply more quickly.
coastlines review
c/o natalye childress
postfach 91 01 40
12413 berlin
germany