𝑪𝑨𝑳𝑳 𝑭𝑶𝑹 𝑷𝑶𝑬𝑴𝑺—We invite submissions of original poems or poems newly translated into English on the theme 🅆🄷🄸🅃🄴.
Contributors are warmly encouraged to interpret the theme as wildly, expansively, and imaginatively as they wish. “White” may be taken literally, metaphorically, symbolically, or subversively; it may touch on colour, light, atmosphere, identity, absence, excess, memory, nature, emotion, ritual, or anything else the word evokes. We welcome perspectives that surprise us, as well as familiar ones approached with fresh creativity.
We are very keen to receive work from a wide range of geographical and cultural backgrounds. Accepted works will be included in a special feature in an upcoming issue of the magazine.
Please read our guidelines with great care. Submissions that do not observe these requirements will regrettably not be considered.
𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠:
𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: Sunday 28 December 2025. Please note that we may close the submission window once we have received a sufficient number of quality works.
𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Previously unpublished poems written in English or newly translated into English.
𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁: Up to two poems per poet/translator.
𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: Please send your poems as Word documents (no PDFs).
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁: Email your submissions to swpoetry@gmail.com with the subject line “VV: White: [Your Initials]”. Emails without proper salutation will not be read. Editor of the section: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.
Poets and translators whose work is accepted will be notified. If you do not receive a response within 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊, please consider your submission unsuccessful. You are welcome to submit additional work once this period has passed.
𝑉𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 & 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 is distributed by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press and has previously featured English-language sections on themes such as “Food”, “Ecopoetry”, “Emergency”, “Bullet”, “Virus”, “Masks”, “Home”, “Distance”, “Boar”, “Wall”, “Departures”, “Beginnings”, “Neighbourhood”, “Intervention”, “Crossings”, “Outsiders”, “Whale”, “Peace”, “Dystopia”, “Lying Flat”, “Involution”, “Grown-up Baby”, “Reparation”, “Rainstorm”, “Poetry & Art”, and most recently, “Apocaplyse”.
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