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SUBMIT
Annual Reading Period: April 1
to October 1
Please note that our reading period is strictly April 1 - October 1. Submissions or manuscripts received with postmarks between October 2 and March 31 will be returned unread.
Sorry, we are not currently accepting
electronic submissions.
Submission Guidelines
Sample Copies
Submission Guidelines
RHINO magazine is a literary annual that invites
traditional or experimental work reflecting passion, originality,
artistic conviction, and a love affair with language. We
publish poetry, short-shorts, translations, and occasional
brief essays on poetry. We encourage regional talent while
listening to voices from around the world.
Submissions are read by multiple editors with various tastes, all looking
for quality work. We have published formal poems, free verse, very accessible
poems, wild experimentations with language, visual poems, prose poems,
poems of stark beauty, and even funny poems. Sometimes we call ourselves “eclectic” in
the best sense of the word. We are proud of the content and variety of
each issue we publish.
- Submit 3 to 5 poems, short-shorts (1000 words or less), or translations.
Please send typed manuscript along with a short cover letter telling
us a little bit about you, how you heard about RHINO, and/or your past
publications. Simultaneous submissions are fine, as long as you notify
us IMMEDIATELY if work you have sent to RHINO is accepted elsewhere.
- Always include a #10 (4 1/8 x 9 1/2) SASE (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope), and let
us know whether we should return your poems or just our response to
your work. We are happy to return your poems if you provide sufficient
postage on the SASE. We’ll recycle your poems if you prefer.
- Please label each poem with your name, address, telephone number,
and email address for ease in contacting you.
- Send your submission by first class mail to:
RHINO
P.O. Box 591
Evanston, IL 60204
- Because we are an annual magazine and more than one editor reviews
each submission, it may take us six months to respond to your submission.
- If we accept your work, we will ask you to sign a contract allowing
us to publish the work and verifying that the work has not been previously
published. We want first serial publication rights only, and the copyright
reverts to each author after publication. Please credit RHINO
with first publication if you re-publish your work in a book, anthology,
or website.
- When we reject submissions, please know that we have read your
work with care. If we have brief comments that we think could help
you, we will write them on the rejection slip. If you don't
receive comments, then perhaps this particular work just wasn't
right for us. Just do some more market research, revise, write something
new, and move on. Don't let it get you down.
- Please do not send more than one submission during our reading
period unless we request to see more of your work via your first SASE.
We will return additional submissions unread.
Sample Copies
As with any literary publication, it is always best to read the magazine
first. You can read sample poems here on the website, subscribe to our current issue, or purchase a past issue. You can also purchase
copies of RHINO at our workshops in Evanston and Normal, readings, and
at some bookstores and galleries in Chicago, its suburbs, and in central
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