FEE: $0-30
PRIZE: $100 / five author copies
SUBMISSIONS WINDOW: Oct 1-Nov 15, 2025
CONTENT & COUNT: 10-12 poems and/or images
Up to 3 manuscripts selected.
DESCRIPTION
Our micro-series, Netsuke (pronounced net-skay), likes the tiny, potent, terse. We want 10-12 page manuscripts of very short poems; five lines or fewer, or visual art, or both, still not exceeding 12 pages.
As an art book series, Netsuke will publish 2-3 manuscripts, either together in one unit or separately (synergy depending). The forms these books take are dependent on content.
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, 2025. 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: 2-3 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 poems are welcomed; feel free to blend poetry and image.
Manuscripts should be between 10-12 pages (excluding front and back matter) and submitted as .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .jpg files only.
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 if submitted 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 The manuscript as a whole, however, should be previously unpublished.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.