Submission Guidelines:

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Trash Panda is a print format only journal for haiku/senryu and short form poets. Your poem should reflect a true experience of living in an environment dominated by the impact of 8 billion human beings. It's a gathering place for poets from countries all over the globe. You are free to express your eco-angst or civilization frustration here. Just make sure what you write really is poetry, and not just complaint. I want poems, not just sentences, unless it is an exceptionally interesting or compelling sentence. Your poem will be judged on its own merit, and by how well it complements and fits in thematically with the stories being told by other poets that submit at the same time. Your job is to express your experience as art, and my job is to combine your work with that of other poets to assemble a story that creates a current snapshot of our world at this moment. If I do my job right, the volume will be more than just the sum of its parts. It will tell a collective story as well.

 

• Haiku, senryu, and micropoems are all accepted, but all submissions must be 17 syllables or less.

• Priority will be given to poems that reflect life on earth as we experience it today in the midst of our planet's 6th great extinction event and in a world dominated by human impact. Although traditional ideals regarding what makes an effective haiku or senryu are often still be considered and preferred, plastic bags may flutter from cherry trees, and herons may stand in filthy water. Every issue of Trash Panda should read true as a true reflection of our shared experience around the world. Real. Unflinching. True.

• Publication rights are restored to the author upon release of publication.

• Trash Panda reserves the right to also publish all submissions on this website, on related social media, and in any future anthologies.

• No simultaneous submissions of poems to other journals or contests. Submitted poems that have been previously published elsewhere may be selected if they are relevant and of good quality. 

• AI is absolutely prohibited, and Trash Panda will not be published online. This is a tangible, touchable, "get excited to see something real in your mailbox" journal. I personally address and mail every volume, even to distant countries.  Billionaires will not be allowed to mine our actual real work to "train" their unsustainable energy sucking garbage producing crap.

• Trash Panda is by poets for poets. Volumes are meant to be read, appreciated, and collected by artists with common values and a collective voice. For this reason I hope you will appreciate Trash Panda when your poems are not in it, just as much as when your work is featured.This is not a "pay to play" venue, which is why I offer subscriptions only and not single volumes. The best way to know what to submit is to regularly read the work of your fellow poets. Subscribe!

• Physical printing is expensive and this is a labor of love, not a business. Behave accordingly with your appreciation and attitude towards me, your fellow poets, and our work. Many talented poets have been featured in Trash Panda.

 

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​Become a Trash Panda poet:

 

Summer Issue:

Submissions are accepted between April 1st and April 15th. ​

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Winter Issue:

Submissions must be received between October 1st and 15th.

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When submissions are open, a button to a submission form will appear here:

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