🌻 Sunflower Tanka 🌻 is your new go-to journal for contemporary tanka and tanka prose, brought to life by the creative minds of Robbie Cheadle & Colleen Chesebro.
Published annually in December, it’s the perfect way to end your year on a poetic high note!
Robbie and I would like to share with you the theme for the first Sunflower Tanka Journal:
Sunflower Tanka is open for submissions October 1 – 31, 2024. Please understand that poems received outside of the submission period will not be read. Thank you.
Please submit 3 to 5 poems. We’re looking for tanka (5/7/5/7/7), tanka prose, and experimental tanka—s/l/s/l/l, tanka series, and experimental tanka (garland tanka, etc.) written in the English language on the current theme in an email:
The theme for the first Sunflower Tanka Journal is “Into the Light.”
Please write your tanka and/or tanka prose using the theme: Into the light. If you don’t use the words of the theme, we must be able to infer the meaning.
To: tankatuesdaypoetry@gmail.com
Subject Line: SUBMISSIONS – CURRENT THEME – YOUR NAME
The body of your email should look like this:
First Name: name
Second Name: last name
Email Address: your email
Social Media Address: your blog address
Copyright Name: your name as the author
One sentence introduction: EX: (Your name is a poet/author who loves finding the magic in everyday connections through prose & poetry).
Country: country where you live
Add 3 to 5 tanka/tanka prose in the body of the email. Please keep the poems left aligned to the page, with two lines between each poem.
Sunflower Tanka only receives submissions by email. Thank you.
Submit between 3–5 unpublished tanka/tanka prose (see above). We’d like to publish tanka and tanka prose, from the traditional to the experimental. All poems must be your own original work. Please submit only once per submission period.
Please do not submit previously published tanka/tanka prose. Every journal has different definitions of what “published,” means. This is our definition:
If a poem has been published in another journal or on a blog, we consider the poem as published, so please don’t send it to Sunflower Tanka. In addition, if a poem appeared in a self-published poetry book, don’t send it to Sunflower Tanka. If you have any questions, please contact us at tankatuesdaypoetry@gmail.com.
As co-editor’s, we establish the guidelines for submissions, and we hope to be the first to showcase your talented tanka and tanka prose with the rest of the world in our first edition of the Sunflower Tanka Journal.
Thanks,
Robbie Cheadle & Colleen Chesebro
Editorial Partners
Thanks,
Robbie Cheadle & Colleen Chesebro
We can’t wait to read your most dazzling tanka and tanka prose. Send us your brightest and best! 🌻
Robbie Cheadle & Colleen Chesebro, Sunflower Tanka Editorial Partners
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I hope to work on some entries this weekend.