READING “FEE”: $0-30
UPON PUBLICATION: $100 / five author copies
READING PERIOD: Oct 1-Nov 15, 2026
CONTENT & COUNT: 10-12 poems and/or images
Up to 3 manuscripts selected.
DESCRIPTION
Our micro-series, Netsuke (pronounced net-skay), seeks the tiny, potent, terse. We want 10-12 page manuscripts of very short poems; five lines or fewer, or visual art, or a mutation, still not exceeding 12 pages.
As an art book series, Netsuke will publish 1-3 manuscripts, either together in one unit or separately (synergy dependent). The forms these books take are dependent on the interior.
While there is no theme, we favor innovative, sonic, omissive, dislocated, explorative, cryptic, and/or transgressive poetics in the (anti)form of text, image, or the (un)like.
Keep it inch.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
WHAT WE WANT: Micro poetry and/or visual art.
READING PERIOD: Oct 1 – Nov 15, 2026. Submissions close for 11:59 pm CST.
Contest will be judged by the Tilted House Editors.
READING “FEE”: $0–$30, sliding scale. As a micro-press, this fee helps immensely to sustain our operation. Though not mandatory, it is highly encouraged.
SELECTIONS: 1-3 recipients will receive $100 and 5 copies of their published manuscript from an edition of 100-150.
WHO MAY SUBMIT: We welcome work from anyone, anywhere, and encourage poets from the regional South, specifically Louisiana, to submit.
DETAILS
Poems (excluding titles) should not exceed 5 lines.
Visual art/imagery should be related to each other and feel like a motion. Color or b&w are welcome.
Visual or concrete or mutative poetics welcome.
Manuscripts should be between 10-12 pages (excluding front and back matter) and submitted as .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .jpg files.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please inform us immediately and withdraw your submission if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
No collaborative manuscripts this time.
Multiple submissions are fine, ideally separately with a reading “fee” for each.
Excerpts from the manuscript may have been previously published. The manuscript as a whole, however, should be previously unpublished.
This contest will not be judged anonymously. Include a bio and cover letter if you’d like.