SurVision Magazine

Please read the following information carefully. We regret that we can't review any submissions that fail to follow these guidelines.



We do not consider unsolicited poetry collections or chapbook manuscripts, however we do consider poets' queries, which should be sent to our e-mail address with the word QUERY in the subject line.

Chapbook manuscripts from all over the world can be submitted to our next James Tate Contest every summer, between 1st June and 31st August.

In January, we have an open submissions period for poetry manuscripts (chapbooks and collections)  by poets born on the island of Ireland, or current and long-term residents here. You can include previously published poems, however your chapbook/collection must not have been previously published in its entirety. There won't be any submission fees for such manuscripts, and we'll consider them between 1st January and 31st January of each year.

During this period, please send to our e-mail address a sample selection of not less than 20 and not more than 30 of your poems attaching it in two separate files: one should be a .doc, .rtf or .docx file, the other a PDF file. Please indicate in your cover letter your geographical location and why you are eligible to submit your work (see above). Please note that this isn't a contest, and we will only publish manuscripts that are a good match for SurVision Books, if any. Our resources are extremely limited, and we won't be able to offer any criticism or advice. To familiarise yourself with the kind of work we publish, please read SurVision Magazine, or the titles we have published so far. We will notify the poets whose manuscripts have been selected. If you haven't heard from us within two months, you may assume that your submission wasn't successful.




Magazine submissions are permanently CLOSED. After eight successful years and the publication of 15 issues, the editors of SurVision felt that the magazine had come to a natural end of its time as a poetry periodical. However, the SurVision website will continue to display all the materials published from January 2017 until July 2024.

SurVision will go on as a book-publishing outlet.