Frozen Sea is a poetry journal publishing exceptional work from early-career poets in a mobile-friendly format.
Highlights
This magazine may have some eligibility requirements
Please double-check before submitting.
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 30 days after submission*/Editor reported data23 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 5%*/Editor reported data8.51%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Best Of The Net, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
Runs themed calls
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
Brief and friendly is best!
Eligibility
Other
We have a focus on early-career poets (meaning: poets who have not yet published a full-length book or have recently published a full-length book) but we accept work from established poets as well. We want to lead people to their next favorite poets. We also have a focus on publishing queer artists, being queer ourselves. You do not have to identify as queer to submit, but you do have to be cool about the possibility of being published in a queer-affiliated journal and treat that with respect.Formatting
Send PDFs, use a standard font, other than that we'll leave the formatting up to you!
Author's rights
If we select your work for publication, Frozen Sea will retain worldwide First Serial Rights and worldwide First Electronic Rights. (Meaning: once your work is published in Frozen Sea, the copyright immediately reverts to you.) We also reserve the right to keep your work on our website in perpetuity, and to promote it on social media channels including Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
Additional info
In addition to publication on our website, we have a focus on publishing quality poetry across Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and other social media platforms—shorter poems work best. Think sonnet-y things.
Tracker statistics
60
Total submissions tracked
23 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
0 days
Fastest response time
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About
Frozen Sea is excited by a wide range of poetry. We love playing tennis without the net so of course we'll consider free-verse, as well as the carefully-constructed corsetry of form. We aspire to, and work towards, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-misogyny, anti-tr...
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William Ward Butler
Editor-in-Chief
Jackson D. Moorman
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Social Media Director