Submission Guidelines Short Version
1 to 5 poems in either .docx or PDF or in the body of the email. 1 to 3 pieces of art (high res jpeg with specs: size, media). Include a short 3rd-person bio. Name your attachment last name – submission type (e.g. Robertson – Poetry).
Send it to: paddler@canoeideas.ca. Follow us on socials. (You don’t have to, but it would be nice.)
Poetry and CNF
We’d love to read your work. Please keep CNF to under 1000 words or so, but we’re easy.
Art
We consider: painting, sketches, mixed media, photography, etc… we’d like to see it all. Please send a short description of your work including dimensions and materials used.
Submission Guidelines Full Version
(Pour yourself a coffee and find a comfortable chair.)
Submission guidelines are pretty straightforward. Please read, Especially #2.
- Please submit up to five original poems in one .docx or PDF file attached to your email. NEW: If your work requires no specific formatting (e.g. tabs or spacing), feel free to include it in the body of your email. We are looking for poems that are not overly long, and would also enjoy and encourage micro-poetry. If you’re not sure, send it along anyway. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your work is picked up elsewhere (and huge congratulations!). Poems should be previously unpublished. Poems appearing on your personal blog or social media are fine, though we’d love to be able to share brand new works with the world. Include a third-person bio of 100 words or so. Limit your recent publications to two or three. Include social media handles if you’d like. Overly long lists of publications will be edited. Send your work to paddler@canoeideas.ca.
- Please use last name – submission type as the subject and the name of your document. This makes finding your work in our downloads folder much easier. It’s not a deal-breaker, but having your last name on the doc helps.
- Please submit up to three pieces of original art. Send high quality jpeg images of your art to paddler@canoeideas.ca. Please include media (digital image, mixed media, acrylic, etc.) along with sizing.
- Please use last name-art as the submission and the name of your document.
I will do my very best to get back to you as soon as I can. If you don’t hear from me within a month after submitting, give me a shout. Life gets busy and this isn’t my regular gig.
Unfortunately, due to prohibitive costs, we are unable to provide complimentary copies to contributors. Printed copies will be offered at cost, should contributors choose. Shipping costs with Canada Post have increased recently. Obviously not good news, but nothing we can do. Sections of poems may also be published online.
All rights to poems will return to you after publication. All future use will be credited to the author. If your poem is published (say, in an anthology or your own collection) please credit us as the original publisher.
Don’t bother sending any work of a sexual nature or that promotes any kind of hate. It will be deleted. Any work that requires a content warning or trigger warning will not fit in with this publication. We encourage writers at any stage of their journey to submit. Never been published before? Hit us up. Got a publication resume that is pages long? Well done, and let’s add to it.
Work by any writer who is known to be abusive towards editors (and, well, anyone) will have their submissions deleted and their work removed from our PDFS. We’re not interested in AI generated work.
I make mistakes, so bear with me on this journey. This venture is a labour of love. I can’t accept everything that is submitted so please don’t think that a rejection is a reflection of your work.
Sincerely,
Deryck N. Robertson,
EIC of Paddler Press paddler@canoeideas.ca
We are not interested in any work created by artificial intelligence (AI).