FAQs

We DO NOT accept submissions via email. Emailed submissions will go unread. Please use online submission form to submit your work.

We DO NOT accept submissions via email. Emailed submissions will go unread. Please use Submittable to submit your work.

The best thing to do for technical issues is to contact Submittable directly, as they handle all the back-end support for us regarding payments and passwords. Their email is: support@submittable.com.

Please wait until you hear back from us with a decision before submitting again and also read our deadline for submissions. For contests, you may submit as many times as you wish. If you have been published by us before, please take one issue break before submitting to us again.

No. Please read the submission guidelines carefully.

A: Typically, cover letters give a bit of insight into your publication history (if any)  and a short synopsis of your personal history. Think of it as a brief author bio and what you would like posted on our site should your work be selected for publication. Don’t overthink it, we just want to know a little about you! NOTE: this is where you may include personal / identifying information.

We fully understand that at times, revisions need to be made and errors corrected. Please message us through the MESSAGES tab in Submittable if you need to make changes to your submission and we will open it for editing on a case-by-case basis. You will be notified via email when your submission is open, and you will be allowed to make your changes and/or re-upload a new document if necessary.

You do maintain ownership of your work when you submit to our platform, whether it is chosen or not for publication. If published, our platform retains first publication rights of the work for the first six months and retains archival rights to keep the work online. First serial rights mean that you won’t publish the poem/short story anywhere else in those first six months. After that time has passed, we ask that you give us credit wherever your poem/short story goes on to be published (for example: “this poem/short story first appeared in the LINGO LEXICON“). 

 You may use curse words in your poetry/fiction, but note that if it is chosen for publication and it contains extremely sensitive language, we may ask for some edits. We will not accept work with language that is harmful or derogatory. If work contains language that violates our values, it will be declined. Please mention any content warnings in your cover letter for our readers.

We absolutely accept international submissions.

For Featured Poetry, a submission may be up to 5 poems that total no more than 10 pages. For contests, it varies. Check the specific contest’s guidelines.

 PLEASE PLACE ALL POEMS IN ONE DOCUMENT and upload that single file. In other words, open a program such as Microsoft Word, add one poem, add a page break, add your second poem, add a page break, etc. This is how you submit multiple poems in one file.

Please read the guidelines. However, if you are submitting multiple poems, you may title the submission something like “Five Poems for the LINGO LEXICON” Or, you may give it a collective title, totally up to you. You do not need to try to squeeze all five poem titles into the designated title field unless you want to. Individual titles of poems should appear in the document itself. If a poem is chosen, we will of course publish the poem as titled for that individual poem. 

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For featured poetry and fiction, we only accept unpublished work. But the self-published on social media is also eligible (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Medium, etc…)

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Yes. But if your submission is accepted for publication you will not be paid any amount except two complimentary issues of the LINGO LEXICON.

Please read the submission guidelines carefully, wherein it has been clearly mentioned to submit in easily readable standard fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman with 12 point font in double line spacing and page numbers. It is a safe option. Avoid colorful stationery, visual embellishments, or cursive fonts.

We use an email address as a unique identifier. It becomes your login name. We will not sell or rent email addresses at any time. If you have checked that you would like to be on our mailing list we will use your email to send information about your submissions,  subscription and information about  the LINGO LEXICON‘s events and authors.

if you still have questions/ queries, CONTACT US.