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email all submissions to ninelivesjournal@gmail.com
submit up to five previously unpublished poems of any length in a Microsoft Word (.docx) document
please title your document with your full name
in the body of your email, include a third-person bio. this journal is about the poets, so provide whatever information you’d like! we want to know you
attach an image of yourself or something else you feel represents you. if you are published, this image will be shared on our website and social media, so make sure you have the rights to use it
we accept simultaneous submissions, but please be prompt to let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere
we accept poems that have previously been featured on your personal social media
we only accept submissions from those residing within or otherwise significantly connected to aotearoa
we’d love for your poems to be a harmonious collection that are representative of yourself. we may not select all of them, but it will give us a picture of you and your wider body of work.