ABOUT
Katabatic Circus is an annual poetry anthology, published in print and ebook format, showcasing speculative poetry of literary merit.
The aesthetic approach of the anthology draws on the complex metaphor of the katabatic imagination (as the hero’s sojourn to the underworld) and the geomorphic power of katabatic arctic winds—as a yawing between material states and realities.
It is that dynamic nexus of meaning-materiality that is intended.
In addition to more traditional literary works, we welcome slipstream, fabulist, and magical realist aesthetics as well as multivalent, metaverse, and meta-modernist approaches and theoretics. Complex, nuanced, thought-provoking. We look forward to reading the work of future contributors to the Katabatic Circus.
ANY POETRY STYLE
- Experimental Hybrid Forms
- Mixed Media Poetry
- Visual Poetry
- Imagism
- Modernism
- Meta-Modernism
- Adaptations of Traditional Poetry Forms
- Iambic Pentameter
- Sijo
- Free Verse
- Fixed Verse
- Sestina
- Ekphrastic Poetry
- Lyrical Ballad
- Couplets
- Haiku
- Avant-Garde
- Beat
- Symbolism
- Synesthetic Poetry
- Persian Pattern Poetry
- Black Out Poetry
- Confessional
- Protest Poetry
- etc.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Thank you for your interest in submitting to Katabatic Circus. We look forward to the opportunity to review your work. You can expect a response within six months.
Email your submission to KatabaticCircus (at) gmail (dot) com.
Please make the subject line “POETRY SUBMISSION, LAST NAME_FIRST NAME: “TITLE.”
Please include your name, contact information, and a cover letter with a brief bio (~100 words) in the body of the email. Attach your submission of 1-5 pieces in a single document—Word or PDF.
IMPORTANT
- Do not submit new material while awaiting a response on a previous submission. (No Multiple Submissions.)
- Only previously unpublished work will be considered. This means that any piece that has appeared online in any capacity, including in social media posts or blogs, is considered “previously published” and not eligible for consideration.
- Currently, we cannot offer monetary compensation for poems that are accepted for publication.
- We do not accept AI generated poetry submissions.
- Katabatic Circus accepts simultaneous submissions; however, please immediately withdraw your manuscript if it is accepted elsewhere.
Katabatic Circus acquires first serial rights and non-exclusive reprint rights. This means that all authors are allowed to reprint their own work after it appears in the anthology—include an annotation noting that it was first published in Katabatic Circus.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Naomi Simone Borwein
Kerry Plunkett
JD Scott
Angry Gable Press 