Haiku is a worldwide phenomenon: In the interest of fairness to our readership, issues of Notes from the Gean will not, therefore, be tailored to any particular season nor have a culture bias but rather our focus will always be on the quality of the work.

All poems, artwork and resources submitted to Notes from the Gean must be unpublish

ed, either in print or electronically, and not under consideration elsewhere. As poetry on social networks and blog's is not representative of an editor’s selection we, therefore, deem such works as unpublished. Though we now consider such works to be unpublished we still ask that they not be under consideration elsewhere and that you also bear in mind that each work will still have to undergo the same rigorous selection process, by our editors, as any other submission would.

In the case of collaborative works, all parties must give permission to publish and the names, country of residence and contact information of all must be included in the submission.

Notes from the Gean will accept unpublished scholarly essays, articles and reviews from outside sources. For editorial purposes, third party reviews must at least be accompanied by PDF if hard copy cannot be sent. Unfortunately we cannot accept reviews of their own books by the author.

Books for review should be sent in good time to the Editor-in-Chief but may in some cases be held over until the next issue to ensure they will receive a full and proper review.
Please send hard copy only - not PDF.

Technical details and exact specifications for submitting for each genre can be found in the drop-down menu. which is accessed by clicking on the appropriate editor's name.

Notes from the Gean welcomes submissions of:

up to 10 original haiku and/or senryu.
up to 10 original tanka.
up to 10 modern and/or traditional haiga.
(please send your Jpeg images which must not exceed a standard A4 portrait page at 150dpi (Dots Per Inch) and include legible signatures within the piece.)
up to 3 haibun/tanka prose.
We accept original linked forms.
We accept original cartoons related to any of the haiku forms.
We accept original essays, articles and reviews -

we may on occasion consider previously published resources.

We are also open to innovative works which may crossover genres and any other works/resources that you think could be of interest to us and our readers.

NOTE: please do not send biographical sketches with your submissions
only send name and country of residence and contact details, unless otherwise requested.

Conditions:

Starting with Volume 3, Issue 2 of Notes from the Gean and including all future issues,
Gean Tree Press reserves the right to publish any work contained in Notes from the Gean
for any future print or electronic anthologies and/or retrospectives of Notes from the Gean.

Should we wish to publish work from any of the issues before Volume 3, Issue 2, either in hard copy or electronically, we will, of course, first seek the author's permission.

Gean Tree Press will not use any works for which permission is not granted.

Gean Tree Press reserves first serial rights and Notes from the Gean should be noted as place of first publication.

Authors are free to republish after 30 days provided the new publication does not require first serial rights.

There is currently no payment for publication.

Submission to Notes from the Gean is deemed as an acceptance of these conditions.

Publication Dates:

March 1st

June 1st

September 1st

December 1st

Submissions may be sent to Notes from The Gean at any time.
To be considered for any particular issue, however, your submissions must be in and in hand one month before that issue is published.

Enquiries related to genre should be sent to the specific editors, and any other enquiries can be sent to the Editor-in-Chief.


Please click on the relevant editor's name and use the form to send in your submissions:

Alison Williams, England: Haiku Submissions

Michael McClintock, United States: Tanka Submissions

Andrew Pomphrey, England: Haiga Submissions

Richard Krawiec, United States: Haibun Submissions

Alan Summers, England: Linked Forms submissions

Colin Stewart Jones, Scotland: Editor-in-Chief/Resources Editor >> Resources Submissions

We will do our utmost to ensure a speedy response to all submissions.

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