Your work will always be treated with the respect it deserves, and you will receive as much help and advice from the management team (Paula) and members of The People`s Poet as it is possible to offer at all times. Please come and join our friendly online community.

When submitting poems that have a special layout, could you pleae ensure that such poems have been produced using Word or Indesign or Pagemaker, and are e-mailed to us as a Word document or as an Indesign or Pagemaker document. We do not have the facility to open and modify pdf documents. We prefer documents with suffixes .txt, .doc, .rtf, but we can also open most Indesign or Pagemaker documents. If you are unable to send such a document, please paste your poem in the body of your email. Please name your poem document with the title of the poem so that it may be found easliy later in the system.
Following these instructions makes it easier and less time consuming for us to reproduce such poems.
Please do not submit poems that are incomplete - we simply do not have time to change them. Thank you.

Notice:
Please note that this season from September 2006, there are new submissions rules for non members that each submission will be in exchange for a vote online or for a review of a collection that has been written by a writer who has submitted to this site. There will be a library of books to pass around for review. Anyone wishing to take part in this aspect of earning submissions will be responsible for passing the book on to the next person wishing to review it. Members may submit as usual this season. Non members will still have a limit of two poem submissions per month but they must be earned by casting votes online or by reviewing books.

Please also note that in order to tighten up on some voting issues and some quality issues, all acceptances from October 2006 for Anthology 6 onwards will be provisional acceptances, pending further editing by the panel at the time of publication. Please don't worry that your poetry might be excluded as for the forseeable future, all accepted poets will have at least one of their poems accepted into the book if they have received a provisional acceptance. You may also request feedback from the panel as to why a certain poem was accepted over others if this is the case. I will pass alll comments on to the authors in the interest of helping everyone to improve their work.

Submit through this link > Submit! 1st September to 30th June only. New email address for submissions tppsubmissions@btinternet.com

Please give your pen name as you want it to appear in publication with your submission actually on the word document with your poem and any membership number as well as in the email. Please put free1 or free2 in the subject line of your email submission OR your membership number. A new automated system will require this for September.

Your work is posted to the site from the text which you enter here, so please ensure that you are content with line-spacing, spelling, punctuation and so on. It is best to include it as a word document attachment to avoid email corruption and you must include your pen name on the document, your real name and contact information. Please try to use the email address to submit from which you would like us to use to contact you. Please use our submissions email address. tppsubmissions@btinternet.com

Please check out Terms and Conditions before submitting! We do not keep your copyright.

And please do not:

Please do not submit a biography unless you are sending it in for the members' area. If we need one for a publication project, we will ask you for one. It's unnecessary for the purposes of submitting to the site. You may send a picture for the gallery if you wish to do so and it will be added online as soon as time allows.

Please do not send more than two poems per month unless you are a member.

Please do not add our submissions email address to your mailing lists for protest emails/activist emails/jokes/junk/e-hugs/chain letters/petitions/pictures of suffering children and animals etc. We simply don't want it and you are likely to receive the standard response created especially for this occasion in the form of an email signature which explains why we do not want this cluttering up our inbox. I am sure that plenty of people out there welcome such mail with delighted yippees but this is a poetry, art and music organisation and such emails are irelevant to us. You may, however, add the email address to your email lists which provide information about poetry publications or events but we would rather you posted it on the forum.

Please do not add pictures, animations, borders or patterns to your submissions. I know you think they look cute but I have to read over 100 emails per day and a plain background makes it so much kinder to my eyes.

Please do not become abusive because we have to close over the Summer. Good poetry does not deteriorate over the course of 8 weeks and I will be pleased to accept submissions again in September. The workload dictates that this has to happen and it is not simply something I dreamed up so that I can go to the Bahamas.

Please do not attempt to submit work between 1st July and 31st August - it will be returned to you or deleted without further notice.

Thank you so much for your co-operation,
it will help to speed up the management of the site!
I run this site alone (with some occasional and extremely welcome help from volunteers!) and produce all of the 6 plus book collections each year, meaning the workload is extremely heavy. If the site is not updated for some time, please don't start yelling, it's probably simply because I have had to down tools and concentrate on the printed books in order to meet deadlines. If I am slow to answer an email, please try again and repost the email to me later. I also work for Survivors poetry on two local grooups in Poole & Portsmouth and I am a mentor for them in 2006, as I was in 2005. I edit some poetry for Breath & Shadow, a disability arts magazine in the USA and I occasionally assist other small publishers with their competitions. All of this is voluntary and I do not take a wage.