All the info we have about our open submissions periods is on this page. We do NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED WORK. We’d love to do more, but our staff and our funds are limited. Subscribe to our newsletter (bottom of the page), and we’ll let you know when we open for submissions of any sort.
Arthur Smith Poetry Prize for 2025
Last day to submit: September 1, 2025
Jeff Hardin is going to be our head judge! He is the author of seven collections of poetry, including two Madvillan collections, most recently Watermark by Madville Publishing, A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being (Madville Publishing), No Other Kind of World (Texas Review Press), and Small Revolution. His work has been honored with the Nicholas Roerich Prize, the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, and the X. J. Kennedy Prize. Originally from Savannah, Tennessee, he has taught for almost three decades at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, Tennessee.
Read all about it here:
ANNOUNCING the contributors to the Motown anthology,
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Motown Revue
Our Motown Anthology will be out by Thanksgiving!
We know we have taken our time with this anthology. It took us a little while to assemble all the amazing poems our editors have gathered for this collection. But they have really delivered! We still have a bit of work to do selecting favorites. There was a cash prize offered for two favorites from among the unsolicited poems. We won’t release any poem titles until our judge has made his decision.
We’re proud to share the list! In alphabetical order. We hope you gasp with delight as we did at the home office when we read the names!
Kelli Russell Agodon – Chris Buckley – Sharnta Bullard – Rick Campbell – Annais Cassells – George Drew – Cornelius Eady – Michael Gaspeny – Nikki Giovanni – Kiana Grace – Sharon Hoffmann – Major Jackson – Mark Jarman – Matthew Johnson – Suzanne Kamata – M. Nzadi Kieta – Doug Lambdin – Betsy Mars – Mimi Merritt – Greg Powell – Linda Neal Reising – Alberto Rios – Carla Sameth – Heidi Sander – Derek Smith – Jill Stockinger – Dana Stringer – Ann Teplick – Allison Thorpe – Tjizembua Tjikuzu – Cameron Walker – Terri Witek – George Yatchinsin
White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology
Contributors Announced, and the final manuscript is in! We are about to dig into layout for this one. What a great team of editors to work with. Many thanks to Collin Kelley and Megan Volpert.
Our magnificent editors for this collection, Collin Kelley and Megan Volpert, have outdone themselves planning, reading, and collecting the poems for this anthology. We had 115 unique submission, and many of those submissions included multiple poems. Without further ado, here are the names of the poets who will be included in the White Winged Doves anthology:
Contributing Poets:
Amanda Killian – Amanda Powell – Amber Dodds – Anne Graue – Antony Lower – Bonnie Kaplan – Caridad Moro-Gronlier – Charles Jensen – Chris Wood – Cody Baggerly – Cody Draco – Collin Kelley – Daniel Barry – Danita Dodson – Devin Ware – Donna Vorreyer – Ed Madden – Eileen Porzuczek – Emily Perkovich – Eric v.d. Luft – Erin Murphy – Gale Thompson – Gerard Wozek – Gregg Shapiro – Hannah Baker-Siroty – Isaiah Vianese – JC Reilly – Jennifer Blackledge – Jennifer Rodrigues – Joe Oswald – Julie E. Bloemeke – Karen Head – Karen Paul Holmes – Karen Weyant – Kari Gunter-Seymour – Kate Marshall Flaherty – Kerry MacNeil – Kersten Christianson – Kristie Daugherty – Linda Sands – Lumina Miller – Maggie Felisberto – Maria Illich – Mattie Frye – Maureen Martinez – Megan Volpert – Melanie Duncan – Michael Montlack – Nikki Lee – nma dhahir – Patricia Caspers – Paul Flowers – Rebecca Titchner – Shannon Edwards – Sheema Kalbasi – Shylah Addante – Steven Reigns – Suzanne Mattaboni – Suzy Thomas – Terri Drake – Tiff Dressen & Alex Mattraw – Trish McEnulty – Valerie Smith – William Walsh – Wren Valentino
Plain Folk: Notes on American Folk Music
This one is closed… We never received enough submissions. We may approach it from a different angle in a year or so…
Other Submissions News and Updates
We have received a long list of selections for the 2024 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. We are handing off to our final judge for this year, and plan to publish long list, short list, and winners soon! Thank you for your patience!
About the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize
Downloadable .pdf Call for Submissions for White Winged Doves: Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology
Submitting Manuscript Queries
All manuscripts published by Madville Publishing undergo a rigorous vetting process before they are accepted for publication. We are turning away queries at present. We have more than we can read. We do not accept any work generated using Artificial Intelligence.
WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING QUERIES AT PRESENT.
Formatting
Writers should ensure that their manuscript submitted for editing adheres to the following guidelines.
Prose should be submitted in 12 pt., Times New Roman, double spaced, one inch margins and pages numbered. If it is not a contest submission, make sure your name and contact information is in the header and on the title page.
Poetry should be 12 pt., Times New Roman, single spaced, one inch margins, one poem per page, and pages numbered. Full manuscripts should include credits for previously published poems and a table of contents.
Style Manual: Madville Publishing generally follows the Chicago Manual of Style and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and defers to American spellings (e.g., gray, not grey). We use Oxford commas, em dashes with no space on either side, and ellipses with the three dots run together as in APA style (which assures that the ellipsis won’t break at the end of a line). Also, the standard is one space after end punctuation.
Titles of books, films, albums, plays, art exhibits, television shows, podcast series, radio programs, periodicals, and newspapers should be italicized. Place quotation marks around the titles of short stories, poems, songs, and individual TV/radio/podcast episodes.
Numbers can be tricky for poems, and we aim for readability and consistency.
Regarding long lines and line breaks, in the first proof after layout the editor and the poet may decide whether to rewrite the line or break it differently. There should be no further changes in line breaks after the first proof.