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Submitting
Please make sure that you read the guidelines below before submitting your work.
All submissions including biography should be sent to [email protected]
Please note submissions without a separate biography will not be accepted.
Please send no more than five poems and biography in separate Word.docx attachments in each submission. Only one submission in each submission window.
We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts for individual whole collections.
There will be a eight-week turnaround time during which every effort will be made to reply to your submission. If you have not had a response during this eight-week period, please assume that your submission has not been accepted on this occasion.
Agenda does not accept simultaneous submissions or generally accept previously published work.
Every effort is made to reply to as many submissions as possible. These submissions do provide the choice for much of the material we publish, and we do realise how important submissions are to each individual, and how rewarding and helpful it can be to have feedback. Our hope is that, by giving encouragement and ultimately possible publication, people will show their support for the magazine by subscribing.
Preference on turnaround will still be given to subscribers, although every effort will still be made to reply to as many submissions as possible within the stated time.
What kind of work the editor would like to see less of:
• Oversentimental, cliché-ridden poetry; poetry with dumdidum rhymes that boss the poet into using particular words just for the sake of pat rhymes; poetry that is badly crafted and too prosaic, and poetry that does not come from the heart.
• Essays/reviews that use academic jargon ad nauseam, have too few examples, too few quotations.
• Essays that are too obsequious, too obviously pandering to the writer in question.
House style for biographies (to be sent on separate word attachments):
Times New Roman, font size 12, 100%
Single spacing and write proper sentences (no notes).
No more than 6 lines.
Start with your name in bold and write the biography in the 3rd person e.g. Not ‘I’.
Names of books in italics, names of poems in single quotation marks.
If a Broadsheet poet, include your age (age 15 – late thirties).
Single spacing
House style for poems (each poem on a separate word attachment):
Times New Roman, font size 12, 100%
Single spacing
Single quotation marks if there is speech in the poem
Proper dashes
Name in bold
Double space, then
Title in bold
Double space after title
Poem in single spacing
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House style for essays in Agenda:
Single spacing
Single quotation marks (double inside single if necessary)
Double space for a new paragraph, no indenting
For chunks of quotations, don’t indent, a double space before and after (and no quotation marks for a chunk). Name of poem underneath (single space) last line of quotation and moved to the right, in brackets.
Names of books/journals in italics, titles of poems in single quotation marks
Font size 12, Times New Roman, 100%
For inverted commas/quotation marks:
Name of a poem e.g. His poem, ‘The Brook’, is a fine poem. Quotations marks (like brackets), then comma or full stop.
Otherwise – in a sentence – full stop or comma and then the quotation mark e.g. Wordsworth wrote, ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud.’
*Important note about dashes: Make a proper dash by typing a word, a space, then a hyphen, a space and another word (even if you don’t want this word e.g. at the end of a line of poetry). Then a dash is formed automatically. Do not use two hyphens for a dash or a single hyphen.