Guidelines

Chapbooks: We read chapbook manuscripts in June. Please do not send your manuscript in the off time, as we are overwhelmed. We like to read a wide variety of forms from traditional to experimental, from both new and established writers. Your manuscript should be a collection or a sequence of poems maximum 18 pages in length. Present the manuscript as an e-mail attachment in Word along with a letter telling us about you and your work and the credits for any poems that have been published in journals (poems previously published in book form are not eligible).

Full-length Poetry Manuscripts: Leaf reads these all year round. Please send it by e-mail as a Word attachment. This is an "until further notice" guideline. Trying to save paper and postage and handling time; not sure how comfortable the online reading will be. Also "until further notice," effective 2008 and forward we will choose our list from Canadian authors only. Our passion? It's the long poem— in its many wondrous forms.

Monday's Poem: Poets from all over the world are welcome here. We select 4 poems from those we receive each month. Please e-mail your poem and bio and quirky photo to mail [at] leafpress.ca. Subject Line: Monday's Poem. We ask for non-exclusive one-time electronic rights only, but poets are given an option to archive the poem on the site. If the poem has been previously published in a book or magazine, please assure us in writing that you have the right to offer it for electronic publication. Please supply credits for poems previously published; poems published on another website are not eligible. We regret not being able to pay in cash—10080 minutes of fame is the best we can do—but we do provide links to your preferred webpages to help you promote your work.

Please note: We are no longer able to respond to each Monday's Poem submission. If your poem is selected, Leaf will write to you within ten days of its receipt. Please know that your poem has been read with pleasure and carefully considered, and remember that, after all, there are only four Mondays in a month. Send poems often, we love to read them.

Poets sending work to Leaf Press will have their names added to our mailing list for newsletters. Newletters contain calls for poetry and exciting news about Leaf poets. We don't abuse this privilege: 1. We don't send more than a letter every month or two. 2. We do not sell or share email addresses with anyone.

Monday's Poem takes a holiday every August.