Guidelines/Submit – Gyroscope Review

All submissions to Gyroscope Review must be made via our submissions manager, Submittable. We do not accept submissions via post or email.

Our response time is between 1 – 3 months. Please submit no more than four (4) poems, all in the same document with page breaks between poems. If there are more than 4 poems, we will not read past the 4th one making the excluded poems feel bad.

Once you have submitted, please do not submit again within the same reading period. Multiple submissions will be rejected after the first one.

READING PERIODS

Winter issue: October 1 – December 1

Spring issue: January 15 – March 1

Summer issue: April 1 – June 1

Fall Crone Power issue: July 1 – September 1

NOTE: All reading periods are subject to closing early if we receive enough outstanding work to fill the upcoming issue.

Please follow the instructions on the submissions form in Submittable.
Submit no more than 4 poems. There are no length restrictions on individual poems. Make sure each poem is on its own page. Use page breaks in between poems.
Formats we accept: .doc, .docx, .rtf.
No title underlines, lines separating poems, weird formatting, or non-standard fonts and settings. Please. We beg you.
Headers, footers, and page numbers are not necessary.
Please use a standard font like 12 pt Times New Roman and 1″ margins.
No pictures or artwork in submissions. All artwork is arranged through the editors.
Note: If all your poem lines start with capital letters and you don’t want them to, here’s how to correct that in Microsoft Word. Word Tips.)

We do not accept translations at this time unless the translation is the poet’s own work and both English and translation are sent.

Please do not submit if you are not open to being edited. We will work with you on edits.

No racist, or any other -ist, derogatory, anti-LGBTQIA+, or pornographic material. This is determined by the judgment of the editors. By all means, push the envelope, but do so in a tasteful manner.

By submitting you attest that the work is your own. No completely AI generated poems please. Our robot overlords are not as good poets as you are.

Anonymous submissions are not allowed; pen names are acceptable.

Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we ask that you consider our acceptance of your poem(s) as a commitment to be published by Gyroscope Review, and the poem(s) will not be withdrawn after acceptance to go to another publication. That would make us sad. If a submission is accepted elsewhere please notify us immediately through Submittable. We’ll be happy for you, we promise! See our FAQ on how to withdraw single poems or the whole submission.

We do not accept previously published material at this time. This includes publication in print, and on the Internet including on Facebook, poetry sites, and personal blogs. Poetry workshopped behind password-protected sites is okay.

Read the complete Guidelines on Submittable.

Gyroscope Review submits poems to the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net as well as other awards.

Gyroscope Review is open to poetry in all genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Rhyming poetry is a hard sell unless extremely well done. We are open to traditional forms, but again, they must be well done. Poems about writing poems are generally a pass unless they bring something new.

We publish quarterly. Note – Gyroscope Review is not a paying market at this time. We do not send contributors’ print copies, but free PDFs are available from our website. Print and Kindle editions are available on Amazon. Print editions are sometimes available on Biblio after a few weeks.