34 to 37 Degrees South
SCWC Digital Poetry
Anthology
Image: Sin titulo (untitiled) c. 1959, Lolo Soldevilla
WORDS / NO WORDS
Call for Poetry Submissions
NOW OPEN – 4 August to 5 September
We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and their continued spiritual and cultural connection to, and custodianship of, Country on which we live and create.
Based at Coledale, near Wollongong, the South Coast Writers Centre serves writers and readers in the NSW South Coast area between Helensburgh and Eden, and west into the Southern Highlands (approximately 34 to 37 degrees South latitude).
We now invite members to submit poetry for an anthology of poetry on the theme of ‘Words / No Words’
The editors are looking for engaging poetry of all forms. We want writing that is memorable and uses language well, writing that shows a clever take on the theme ‘words/no words’ and points the reader to the dynamic poetry of the Illawarra, South Coast, Far South Coast and Southern Highlands of NSW.
Send us your best new, polished work.
There are no prizes. Your reward is that, if selected, your poem(s) will appear in the anthology.
Your entry fee will support the work of the South Coast Writers Centre.
The SCWC Hardship Fund is available to members and their children who lack the financial means to attend SCWC workshops, events or courses, or to become members. If you need access to the fund, please email us.
Before submitting your poem, we strongly suggest browsing our past anthologies in digitised form below or purchasing physical editions from our shop.
Conditions of entry:
· Entry is open only to members of the South Coast Writers Centre. If you are not a member, you can join our writing community and enter. JOIN NOW.
· Entries open 4 August and close 5 September at 11:59pm.
· Submissions will only be accepted via the SCWC website.
· A maximum of three entries per person is permitted.
· An entry fee of $10 must be paid with each poem entered. Please note, only one poem per entry form. Use a new form for each poem.
· Each entry may be a maximum of 30 lines or 300 words for prose poetry and should be written mainly in English.
· Each entry must be submitted as a Word file, formatted in 12 pt. Times New Roman font, with 1.5 line spacing.
· The poet’s name must not appear in the Word document or in the file name.
· We also welcome visual poetry (PDF), video poetry (MP4 and MOV files) and audio poetry (MP3, M4A, WAV files). Please keep your submission to around 2 minutes duration.
For assistance uploading your file, please contact petercfrankis@gmail.com.
· All entries will be ‘blind’ assessed by a panel of readers. The judges’ decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into about the judgments or the judging process.
· Entries must be original works. Collaborative works are also welcome. No AI-generated poems please.
· Previously published, prize-winning or broadcast poems are ineligible. Poems self-published on your personal blog or personal website are permitted.
· Entries under contract to a publisher or broadcaster are ineligible.
· Simultaneous submissions are accepted. However, please inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere and we will withdraw it.
· Entry fees will not be refunded if entries are subsequently withdrawn.
· If you need to change your poem once you’ve submitted it, please get in touch (petercfrankis@gmail.com) before the submissions close on 5 September.
· All poets will retain the copyright over their work while assigning to the South Coast Writers Centre a limited licence to publish the work.
2024 Anthology is here
Read the latest 34-37 Degrees South anthology on the theme of ‘Signs’.
Head over to our Listening Lounge to hear the poets reading their work. Or visit our shop and we’ll send you your own copy!
South Coast Poets Out Loud
We had the chance to record poets featured in our 2023 anthology, the Country Edition.
You can listen to them read their poems aloud at our Listening Lounge:
Past Anthologies
There are limited physical copies remaining of the 2023 Country Edition of 34-37 Degrees South. Visit our shop to purchase and browse our other anthologies of writing.
Keep scrolling to read the digital editions of 34-37 Degrees South from 2023 and 2022.
2023 Anthology
2022 Anthology
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