Submission Guidelines 

We are back with a spring Fast Lane to close out National Poetry Month 2024! Opening April 15 and closing April 30, we are reading your poems and sending feedback in ten days or less!    

For Fast Lane submissions, we are looking for originality, risk-taking, and consummate craftsmanship. The $4.00 submission fee includes a 10-day response time. Poems accepted will be included in our fall issue.  

Poems submitted to the Fast Lane are not applicable to the spring poetry contest. Simultaneous submissions allowed; please let us know immediately, by adding a note to your Submittable account, if the piece is accepted elsewhere.   

General Manuscript Guidelines: 

• Title your document with your name and the genre. (i.e: GwendolynBrooks_Poetry). ​Include a cover letter in the provided space (not in the document). 
• We welcome your best work, and have no restrictions on form or content except that we will not consider work that promotes or condones intolerance, hatred, or is defamatory or discriminatory. 
• You may submit as many times as you like, but each submission requires payment of the FAST LANE fee of $4.00. Revisions may be made upon acceptance.   
• Only original, previously unpublished work will be considered.
• Include a cover letter in the provided space in the Submittable form (not in the document). Include your mailing address, email, a 50-word bio, and the titles of the pieces you are submitting.
• Should you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration, please indicate this in your cover letter and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
• Send your work as a SINGLE attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF); docx preferred.
• Please submit no more than four (4) pieces in a single batch.
• If you need to update us on the status of your simultaneous submission, please do so by adding a note to your submission, in Submittable.​

The entry period for the 2024 Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest begins on February 15th with entries accepted until May 15, 2024.  A $500 prize will be awarded for the winning poem.  All entries considered for publication. Winner and finalists will appear in Crab Creek Review.

 The entry fee is $16 per submission. Multiple submissions are allowed, but each batch must be submitted separately, with its own entry fee. This submission fee funds the print production of each issue.


 

About the Judge
 Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor from the Pacific Northwest. Kelli's newest book Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press) was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press where she works as an editor and book cover designer. Her other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room (Winner of the Foreword Indies Book of the Year in Poetry, Washington State Book Finalist, and shortlisted for the Julie Suk Prize), The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (coauthored with Martha Silano), and the newly released Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews on Creating a Book of Poems which she coedited with Susan Rich. Kelli lives in a sleepy seaside town in Washington State on traditional lands of the Chimacum, Coast Salish, S'Klallam, and Suquamish people where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. She is also currently part of a project between local land trusts and artists to help raise awareness for the preservation of land, ecosystems, and biodiversity called Writing the Land.www.agodon.com/www.twosylviaspress.com
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Submission Guidelines:

• Please do not include your name in your submission. All submissions should be kept anonymous.
• Only original, previously unpublished work will be considered.
• Include a cover letter in the provided space in the Submittable form (not in the document). Include your mailing address, social media handle, email and phone number, a 50-word bio, and the titles of the pieces you are submitting.
• Should you submit something that is under simultaneous consideration, please indicate this in your cover letter and notify us immediately by adding a note to your Submittable account if the piece is accepted elsewhere.
• Send your work as a SINGLE attachment (.doc; .docx; .rtf; PDF); docx preferred.
• Please only submit up to four (4) poems in a submission.
• We aim for a response time of 8 weeks, but please do not query your submission status unless 3 months have passed.
• If you need to update us on the status of your simultaneous submission, please do so by adding a note to your submission, in Submittable.​
• The entry fee is $16 per submission. Multiple submissions are allowed, but each batch must be submitted separately, with its own entry fee.​

Order your copy of Crab Creek Review's 2023 Spring/Summer issue here!

From cathedrals to dance floors to climate change, this issue tackles our loftiest questions while celebrating the most personal. It shifts from deep meditations to startling crystallizations as each work takes on a new form and shape.  With this latest issue, you'll find writing from Jory Mickelson, Jared Beloff, Rebecca Martin, Rodrigo Toscano, Julia Mallory, Shilo Niziolek, Sarah Dalton, Forester McClatchey, Shannon K. Winston, David J. Bauman, Melody Wilson, Stephanie L Harper, Benjamid D. Carson, Carolyn Oliver, Jane Zwart, Jude Dexter, Lauren Camp among so, so many others. And we can't wait to share them all with you.