SoFloPoJo - now in our tenth 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 2021-2025 we averaged a 4% acceptance rate
for poems submitted to our quarterly open calls.
Thank you to everyone who submitted to
The Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize - 2026
The prize winner and honorable mentions will
be announced on or before April 1, 2026
Call for Submissions to our Special Features Section.
Please send your best photograph (one you have taken), along with an unpublished poem that you have written that is NOT ekphrastic but was inspired by your photo. The quality of the pair will determine acceptance.
By submitting to SoFloPoJo, you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the general submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website. www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
Please review the submission guidelines on our website: southfloridapoetryjournal.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, 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By submitting to SoFloPoJo you attest that your submission is your original unpublished work and you have read and agreed to the submission guidelines on the South Florida Poetry Journal website.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.
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) 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