FAQs

How do I submit to Curate?
Curate doesn't take submissions. The editor invites poets she likes to send her a parcel of poems from which she'll choose 6-10 to feature. For more information, look at the Invitations page.

Why doesn't Curate accept submissions?
The editor tried that once. She and a couple of friends tried to start a literary journal. In the end it was just too much work for three people who already had very busy lives. They ended up closing the journal because they couldn't keep it running and do authors justice. Authors deserve someone who has time to spend on their work. The invitation-only format of Curate allows the editor to give a poet a significant amount of space and attention while keeping the task manageable for herself.

That said, the editor of Curate will be accepting submissions for one issue a year (to start) sometime in late 2018/early 2019. She is currently making final decisions and setting up secret submission accounts, etc. to make sure it all runs smoothly. More as it develops.

Why doesn't Curate have archives?
This journal is an exercise in simplicity. Therefore names of authors who have been featured appear in the archives tab and there are links to their own websites, but their work doesn't appear here after its initial appearance.

I see that you're running this journal as a blog. What's up with that?
What's up is that the editor is a single human doing this for fun and for the love of poetry and the really amazing poets that she encounters in her daily reading. She has no connections that provide monetary support for this project at the moment (maybe someday). So this is run through a blogging platform and looks blog-y because it must be right now. 

Does Curate have a Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Social-Media-Something?
At this moment, not really. All we have is a Facebook page that isn't yet linked to here because it needs work (sort of like this website at the moment). Please subscribe to the site to get updates. Something like social media may come along eventually, but at the moment the editor is focused on content.

I have received an invitation. What can I expect from Curate?
After receiving your poems, the editor will choose from them to create a specific reading experience for readers that captures the truth (she hopes) in your poems. Your work will be featured on the website for 2 months. After that time, your name will appear in the Archives tab, linked to your website (if you have one). Your poems will not be saved in this space, giving you the freedom to do with them what you will.


What kind of rights do you follow?
The editor is following in the footsteps of those who have gone and done before her. Your poems will appear here for the length of time mentioned above and then you can feel free to do whatever you want with them. It's your work, after all, and she feels happy to have given it space in the world. If this is the first place your poem has appeared, she asks that you credit it as such in future publications. Which technically means: first-time North American Serial Rights for publication of accepted work. Curate just wants the rights to use the work for a period of 60 days from the initial publication date. After that, rights revert back to the author, just please remember to mention Curate if the work is reprinted elsewhere and Curate is the first place it appeared.