Summer 2024
Submission Period: April 1-May 15, 2024
Guest Editor: C. Kubasta
For the summer issue of Bramble, there's no theme, but we'd dearly love formally experimental poems. Think prose poems (justified please), jagged edges, caesura, invented forms, and playfulness. Get weird. We're here for it. Remember our tagline is we seek "to celebrate the challenging and transgressive spirit of poetry."
C. Kubasta
C. Kubasta founded Bramble, working with the wonderful Tori Grant Welhouse, in 2018, to create a platform for Wisconsin poets and further the mission of Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, where she serves as Vice President. She writes poetry, fiction, and hybrid forms. Her most recent book is the short story collection Abjectification (Apprentice House, 2020), and her next book of poetry Under the Tented Skin will be out in 2025. She is the Executive Director of Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts in Mineral Point, a non-profit arts & craft school that offers workshops for adults and youth, including robust literary programming from staged readings to workshops to residencies. Find her at ckubasta.com and follow her @CKubastathePoet
Submission Guidelines
We welcome unsolicited submissions from Wisconsin poets* & WFOP members. Please send one submission of 1-3 poems (of any length and style) to bramble@wfop.org. Put your last name and "Bramble Submission" in the subject line. In the body of the email please include a cover letter with mailing address, poet pic, a 50 word bio, and your poems. Please do not submit poems as a separate attachment unless your poem requires special formatting (PDF preferred).
No previously published poems.
Please make only one submission to Bramble per issue.
If your work was accepted in the last issue of Bramble, we ask that you wait out a cycle before you submit again.
Contributing authors and artists will receive one contributor's copy of the print issue.
If you are interested in providing original artwork for the cover, please query at bramble@wfop.org.
We publish triannual issues. Winter/Spring, Summer and Fall.
Rights revert to poets/contributors immediately after publication. If poems are reprinted later (in a collection or anthology), we appreciate an acknowledgements credit.
Submission Schedule
*Bramble seeks to celebrate Wisconsin poets & poetry, as part of the mission of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. For our purposes, this includes poets who live & write (a substantial portion of the year) in Wisconsin, as well as students studying in Wisconsin. If we cannot determine from your bio or mailing address whether this is you – we won’t be able to consider your submission.
WFOP is an inclusive and accommodating group. Benefits of membership are listed here. If you have any questions or concerns about membership please contact our membership chair at wfopmembership@gmail.com. Membership is calendar year based from January to December. Join here.
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Bramble on.
