We are open for submissions on the theme of ‘Surprise’

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You don’t need a track record as a poet generally or a children’s poet specifically; we are keen to encourage as many people as possible to experience the important joy of writing poetry for children!

Please read the guidelines below before submitting your poems.

  • Please send up to three unpublished poems on the theme of ‘Surprise’ by 31 July 2025. You are always welcome to interpret the theme as you wish.
  • We strongly recommend reading a previous issue of Tyger Tyger Magazine to get a feel for it. We always appreciate knowing which poems in the magazine you have recently enjoyed.
  • Poems should be up to 40 lines long and aimed at readers aged 7-11 years old.
  • Please include a short covering note and a third-person biography of up to 80 words with your submission.
  • Please paste your poems into the body of an email and send them to tygertygermagazine@gmail.com.
  • We welcome submissions from everyone, everywhere in the world, as long as you are aged 18 or over.
  • Unfortunately, at this time we cannot offer payment for work published. Tyger Tyger Magazine is run on a voluntary basis.
  • Feel free to submit the same poems elsewhere but please let us know as soon as you can if another publication snaps them up.
  • If you have recently submitted or been published in Tyger Tyger Magazine, you are most welcome to submit again on the next theme.
  • You are welcome to resubmit poems we have already seen, if they suit the new theme.
  • By submitting, you consent for your work to be featured in perpetuity: online on the Tyger Tyger Magazine website; as a freely downloadable poster; as part of a freely downloadable teaching resource (three poems will be selected each issue); on Tyger Tyger Magazine’s TES page, where poem posters and resources are available for free download by users.
  • Poets retain copyright to their poems. Please do mention us if you go on to publish your poem elsewhere.
  • We respond to all submissions and aim to do so within three months of the closing date. Give us a nudge after that time if you haven’t heard back.
  • The decision of the editorial team is final; we will not enter into further correspondence.

 

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