Voices de la Luna accepts English language poetry and prose submissions from anywhere in the world. Submissions are accepted only by e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or similar format for Mac users. Include your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and telephone number on each poem submitted, and on the first page of each prose manuscript. Youth poetry submissions should be clearly marked as such, and should also include the writer’s age, name of school, and grade level. Please note that youth writers must not yet have graduated high school and be no more than 18 years old.
Brief biographical notes help us understand who we are reaching. However, contributors’ notes will not be published. Work will be selected for publication based solely on literary quality and the way each individual piece of writing meets our current needs.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as we are informed by e-mail immediately (with title and submission date) if you need to withdraw the work from our consideration. Submissions may have been previously published, as long as the writer provides that information and currently holds the rights. If work has been translated include the translator’s name for credit. In some cases, we may publish short poems in both languages side-by-side. Readable, well-crafted, formatted submissions are expected. We do not pay contributors. Voices de la Luna uses a specific style; all poems will conform to our style.
We contact writers only if work has been accepted, letting them know that their piece will appear in the up-coming issue. This notification will come immediately before an issue goes to print, not sooner. Writers from the San Antonio area can purchase copies of the magazine at The Twig, Viva, and B&N bookstores.
We have a small editorial staff and cannot provide feedback on submitted work, nor will we offer reasons why a particular work has not been accepted for publication. We may hold work over for a future issue, especially work that arrives when the issue we are currently producing has already been filled. Please do not contact us about the status of a submission. If we’ve had your work more than six months and through at least two quarterly issues, and have not contacted you, it is unlikely we will be using those particular pieces.