Please send us your proems that:

- combine the poetic and the prosaic

- are comprised of sentences (not lines/stanzas), though a mixture of  sentences AND verse also qualifies (as in haibun, quizzes, and/or some organic form: be inventive)

- if you send us work which is solely written in lines, line breaks, and stanzas, you're wasting your time and ours; PLEASE follow guidelines; there are innumerable journals out there for verse, but this isn't one of them

- are 2 pages or less in length (not because proems longer than 2 pages  aren’t proems, but because of the journal's scope/shape)

- explore the potentials of the proem genre (shun lazy reliance on  already-proven tricks: poetic, narrative, or otherwise)

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Technical details:

- Please submit 3 - 5 proems, one essay, one interview, or one review  (only proem books, performances, or exhibitions please) in one document with file name:  Lastname_date  

​- Translations are encouraged, but please include the original-language version and the English translation, and 

be sure you have the original author's permission to publish their work

- File types accepted: .doc, .docx, .pdf

- Please don’t include your name within your document and make sure  each proem begins on a new page, preferably Times New Roman, 12 pt font

​- Please include a cover letter which should also provide 1) a list of the work you submitted, 2) information about whether you’ve simultaneously submitted it, 3) a four-sentence  bio that tells us more than your publications but  

also includes a sentence about what you appreciate/find challenging  about proems, 4) your contact info (mailing 

address, email), and  5) please let us know how you heard about PROEM 

- Upon acceptance, you'll be asked to submit a black and white author  photo .jpeg format (with photo credit) for inclusion in the Contributor's Notes

- Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please let us know via  email if your work has been accepted elsewhere (in which case: Congratulations!)

- Previously published work isn’t accepted (prevpub here means it’s  appeared anywhere in the universe besides your journal, a napkin, or a computer file folder)

- Please submit to PROEM only twice per calendar year (deadline for October issue is August 14, for April issue is February 14,  though submissions are read year-round)

- Response time varies from three days to three months. If it’s been  longer than three months and you haven’t received a reply, please send a respectful email and let us know what you sent and when.

Essays:  tell us something we don’t know about proems, yours, somebody else’s,  or a thought you had on the way home. Make it funny, or, at the very  least, not boring or self-important.

            - double space

            - use page numbers

            - give us a spicy title (steer clear of the dreaded academic Title: Subtitle)

            -max 1,500 words, please

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Reviews:  don’t use this as a space to bash in someone’s literary skull. Also,  not to be used to blow literary smoke. Make us want to understand and  read deeper. Give quotes from the source, but be sure to explore how  those quotes mean. Same technical guidelines as essays.

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Interviews:  be creative. Be interesting. Get us interested in this person’s (these  people’s) work. You need to talk about proems (duh?). Same technical  guidelines as essays.

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If  you’re interested in submitting artwork (cover is color, interior is  b&w), please email 5 .jpegs to email address above and/or send a  link in a cover letter. Pay is one copy of the issue in which your work  appears.

There are no submission fees in order to submit to PROEM.  It’s already cost you sweat, tears, maybe a boyfriend or a cat,  possibly some rainbows or joy, and time, to write your work, so, why be  charged money to share it also?

Contributors receive one copy of the issue in which their work appears. 

PROEM gains  first-publication rights and the ability to publish accepted work from  the print journal on the internet. Upon publication, rights revert back  to the author, but, please acknowledge first publication in PROEM in future dispersal of your work.