Submissions are OPEN.

We will read all poems sent to us between now (May) and 30 June 2024.

We’ll aim to respond to everyone by the end of August.

Issue 11 will be launched in the Southern hemisphere spring.

What we ask:

Share your poetry - be it a roar, purr, or pip-squeak. 

Broadly, we seek poems in which we feel a warm-blooded liveliness - beating hearts, teeth and claws or rough-tongued tenderness. To get a sense of the range of work we’ve adored before, browse our previous issues online.

We believe that you should pursue the writing that most energises you, rather than tailoring your voice to journals - and we are always pleasantly surprised by new modes of enchantment. Send us the work you’d be most chuffed to see in the world.

Email us up to five poems, preferably in a Word document, to sweetmammalian at gmail.com along with an author bio in your cover note. We also appreciate knowing we’re you’re from, within Aotearoa or abroad.

We are centered in Aotearoa New Zealand, but do welcome work from overseas. It’s important for us to be in conversation across oceans as well as within these antipodean islands.

Simultaneous submissions are permitted, though do let us know as soon as you can if you need to withdraw work.

Sweet Mammalian loves to hear from new writers and old hands - we welcome the emerging, the submerging, the splurging. Send us your thrilling work and spread the word far and wide.

Submission periods for past and future years: if you know us already, you may be aware that we usually open submissions in Aotearoa’s autumn, read through the winter, and reply to all writers and launch the new issue in our Southern springtime. These ebbs and flows can change depending on the editors’ schedules, so check back here for updates, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to hear about our issue launches and next submission calls.