SoFloPoJo - now in our eighth year.
Poetry, Essays, Flash Fiction,
& Poetry Performance/Spoken Word Videos
We read year-round and publish quarterly:
Feb, May, Aug, Nov
(issue submission deadlines six weeks prior to publication)
Please review the submission guidelines on our website:
soflopojo.com/submission-guidelines.html
Response time: four months or less.
The South Florida Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize
co-sponsored by Limp Wrist & SoFloPoJo
Final Judge: Samuel Ace
- Samuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author most recently of Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish), Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts), and Stealth with poet Maureen Seaton (Chax). Chapbooks include: What started / this mess (above/ground press); Our Weather Our Sea (Belladonna Chaplet #209); Madame Curie’s Notebook (with Maureen Seaton, Artefakta); Triple # 11: The Road to the Multiverse; and Triple #18: A minor history / of secret knowledge (with Maureen Seaton, Ravenna Press). Ace is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry, as well as a repeat finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in ex-Puritan, Poetry, We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetry; Home is Where You Queer Your Heart, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, Baest, and many other journals and anthologies. A book-length poetic essay, I Want to Start by Saying, is forthcoming from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2024. Also forthcoming in 2024: Portals (Ravenna Press), a hybrid work co-authored with Maureen Seaton.
- As active as our judge is in the poetry community, it is possible that submitters may have interacted with him. To be fair, please do not submit work that you have previously shown, discussed, workshopped, etc. with the contest judge.
- The Prize for this contest is five hundred dollars $500.00. There is no entry fee. The prize will be paid to one winner, or, in the case of collaborative work, split among the collaborators. There will be up to three (3) honorable mentions.
- Eligibility: This contest is open to persons who reside, either full or part-time, in South Florida. For the sake of this contest, we have defined South Florida broadly as the following counties: Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, Sarasota, & St Lucie (The counties south of or containing Florida State Road 70)
- Guidelines: You may submit one (1) document containing up to three (3) previously unpublished poems. The total document length should not exceed five (5) pages in a standard 12-point font. All entries will be read concealed. That means your name should not appear anywhere on the document. Please only one (1) entry per submitter.
- Process: Limp Wrist & SoFloPoJo staff will read and sort the incoming submissions into yes-maybe-no categories. We expect this process to generate the "Long List." The readers will then lock in numerical scores for the work in the "Long List" which will yield the "Short List" that goes to our final judge.
- Publication: The prize winner and honorable mentions will be published in SoFloPoJo and later reprinted in Limp Wrist. They will also be featured in a future Wild & Precious Life Series reading. All entries will be considered for publication.
- Theme: there is no theme for this contest. Let the spirit and work of Maureen Seaton be your guide.
Please review the submission guidelines on our website: SoFloPoJo.com/submission-guidelines.html
Please upload up to three (3) poems as one (1) document. Please DO NOT include your name in or on the document containing the poems. Please remember to submit early.
We are proud to have published work from Samuel Ace, Richard Blanco, Akhim Yusef Cabey, Jim Daniels, Denise Duhamel, Cornelius Eady, Robin Gow, Lola Haskins, Kathleen Hellen, Allison Joseph, Ann Pedone, Maureen Seaton, David Trinidad, & many more. We are pleased to have published poets from all over the world.
By submitting to SoFloPoJo you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website. www.soflopojo.com
We are currently accepting essay submissions at South Florida Poetry Journal.
We’re looking for personal essays related to life in the arts. (We interpret this very broadly!) Highly technical craft essays are not a good fit for us. If you have something you think we’d be interested in, send it our way. Or, if you have an in-progress idea on which you’d like a bit of feedback, we’d love to hear from you. We’re excited about working with new and published essayists alike.
We publish approximately two essays in each issue. Check our website to read what we’ve published: soflopojo.com
Approximate word count of up to 1,500 words. Unfortunately, we are not able to pay contributors.
By submitting to SoFloPoJo you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website.
Deadline is subject to change.
Thank you for thinking of SoFloPoJo as an opportunity to showcase your work. We are looking for Flash Fiction submissions generally up to 750 words. (Contact the FLASH Editor for exceptions)
We like flash fiction that inspires, stimulates, evokes, emotes, shocks, and surprises. We want to be transported by your words to wondrous and strange places, and familiar places that you have made new. Please send us your best work. Seriously, your best.
By submitting to SoFloPoJo you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website.
Francine Witte, SoFloPoJo Flash Fiction Editor
SoFloPoJo seeks performed poetry for our video page. Please send us your best. We are looking for great content, well performed. Whether you emote to the rafters or invite us to tea, memorize your piece, free your words and your eyes from the page, get your film school friends to help, maybe even add a musical score, and please submit your spellbinding videos. Preferably 5 minutes or less, no longer than 10 minutes at the most.
By submitting to SoFloPoJo you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website.