CLOSED FOR SUBMISSIONS
Reading periods & Publication dates:
January 1 - January 15
Issue will be published by the end of January
March 1 - March 15
Issue will be published by the end of March
April 15 - April 30
Submission window for World Collage Day
Curated collages will be published on May 11
May 1 - June 30
Our imprint Yavanika Press will remain open for e-chapbook submissions.
June 1 - June 15
Submission window for our Annual Visual Poetry Contest
Vispo Gallery will be published by the first week of July
July 1 - July 15
Issue will be published by the end of July
Sonic Boom is a literary and arts journal that was started in 2014. After publishing twenty-four issues and three Best Of anthologies, we are back with an all-new format. All submissions MUST be original and previously unpublished. Works that have appeared on your personal blogs and social media accounts are not considered published. For e-chapbook submissions, visit our imprint Yavanika Press.
What we publish:
CATEGORY ONE: Poems under 10 lines
We accept any and all forms of short poems as long as they are under 10 lines (excludes lines breaks and title). A non-exhaustive list includes free verse, haiku, senryu, cherita, tanka, gembun, dua, and everything in between. If you're new to Japanese short-forms, please read our back issues to get a sense of our aesthetic. Send us work that is exciting, authentic, and minty fresh. Every year, we nominate poems for The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Individual Poems Award.
Submit a minimum of 2 poems and a maximum of 5. Please paste your poems in the body of the email. The size of the journal is 5 x 6 inches, so do not send us poems with unusually long lines.
Email: sonicboomjournal@gmail.com
Subject: POETRY SUBMISSION
Response time: 3 weeks or sooner
Simultaneous submissions: NO
Please submit only ONCE per reading period.
CATEGORY TWO: Visual poems
We are specifically looking for pieces that incorporate poetry AND art. Some forms include blackout poetry, erasures, cut-ups with collage, haiga, mixed-media, altered books, and so on. For inspiration, check out our Annual Vispo Contest galleries here.
Submit a maximum of 5 visual poems. Please ensure your files are under 2 MB and name them in this format: Title_Last Name. We cannot publish pieces in landscape format due to the size of the journal (5 x 6 inches).
Email: sonicboomjournal@gmail.com
Subject: VISUAL POETRY SUBMISSION
Response time: 3 weeks or sooner
Simultaneous submissions: NO
Please submit only ONCE per reading period.
Copyrights:
Sonic Boom retains the right to publish your work as a whole, or pieces thereof, on our website and social media pages. All rights revert to the individual authors upon publication. We ask that you credit Sonic Boom as the place of original publication in case of future reprints.
Payment:
We are currently a non-paying market.
If you have any queries, drop us a mail or send us a message using the form below.