Barn Owl Review poetry magazine will be open for submissions from June 1st through November 1st of 2010. Please check out our guidelines below.

Barn Owl Review will welcome submissions of poetry for its fourth volume from June 1st through November 1st of 2010. We are a handsomely designed print journal looking for work that takes risks while still connecting with readers. We aim to publish the highest quality poetry from both emerging and established writers. Barn Owl Review 4 will be released in 2011 at the AWP bookfair in Washington D.C. Though Barn Owl Review is a print journal, submissions are only taken electronically. Submissions will only be read between 6/1/10 and 11/1/10. Anything sent outside that windown will be ineligible for consideration.

Contributors receive two copies of the issue, a discount on additional copies, and a permanent place in the editors' hearts.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submit your manuscript as an attachment formatted for MS Word or .rtf  with ‘Poetry Submission: NAME’ as an email subject line (for example, 'Poetry Submission: Emily Dickinson'). Include contact information in the attachment. Send your submission to submit at barnowlreview dot com.

A cover letter with contact information is required, and should be pasted into your email message and addressed to the editors. Please list your attachment's name in the body of your cover letter. We are unable to open attachments that are not specified as such.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome with immediate notification of acceptance elsewhere. No previously published work, please. Barn Owl Review will provide pre-publication galleys of accepted work. Please note that we only accept one submission per author during our reading period.

Submit 3-5 poems (in a single attachment) to the attention of the Editors-in-Chief, Mary Biddinger and Jay Robinson. Barn Owl Review favors no particular poetic style or school; however, we look for innovation and risk-taking in the poems that we publish.  We are interested in poems with a strong narrative or lyric presence, by poets who understand the energy of the line, poems that “make it new” in a way that’s truly new.  Barn Owl Review prides itself on being eclectic and strives to publish new writers alongside established ones. Submissions of inspirational or greeting card verse are not for us, but otherwise we are quite open to subject and style. Dazzle us. Curl our toes. But most of all, surprise us.

REVIEWS: We are not currently accepting unsolicited reviews, though we do welcome review copies of poetry books. Email Jay Robinson, reviews editor, for a postal address. We are especially interested in reviewing first books and small press titles. Each issue of Barn Owl Review includes several featured reviews, and we maintain an active reviews section on our Web site, where new book reviews are published year round.