SoFloPoJo - now in our eleventh year.
Poetry, Essays, Flash Fiction,
& Poetry Performance/Spoken Word Videos
We read poetry year-round and publish quarterly:
Feb, May, Aug, Nov
(issue submission deadlines six weeks prior to publication)
Response time: four months or less.
From time to time at the end of a quarterly reading period
Essays or Flash submissions may close for two weeks
so that the editors can clear their backlog.
Please review the submission guidelines on our website:
southfloridapoetryjournal.com/submission-guidelines.html
During 2021-2026 we averaged a 4% acceptance rate for poems submitted to our quarterly open calls.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Third Annual Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize:
First Place: Remi Recchia,
Honorable Mentions: Camilla Downs & Virginia Kane
The Fourth Annual Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize will open for submissions on October 1st, 2026
Please review the submission guidelines on our website: southfloridapoetryjournal.com/submission-guidelines.html Please upload up to three (3) poems as one (1) document, not to exceed five (5) pages. Please DO NOT include your name or email address in or on the document containing the poems. Please remember to submit early. We are proud to have published work from Samuel Ace, Yalda Al-Ani, Richard Blanco, Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Jim Daniels, Denise Duhamel, Cornelius Eady, Joseph Fasano, Joanna Fuhrman, Robin Gow, Kathleen Hellen, David Kirby, Koss, Allison Joseph, Maureen Seaton, Virgil Suarez, 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 By submitting to SoFloPoJo you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website.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.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
We are currently accepting essay submissions at SoFloPoJo - South Florida Poetry Journal. We’re looking for essays, personal, lyric, & otherwise, 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. On average, we publish two essays in each issue. But that is at the discretion of the Essays Editor, Stacie M. Kiner. Check our website to read what we’ve published: southfloridapoetryjournal.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) One story, one submission per reading period, one file per submission, simultaneous submissions allowed, please withdraw your piece if it is accepted elsewhere.
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