Quibble Lit is a literary magazine and collective publishing contemporary writers and artists across print, online, and community programming. We like work with imagination and tension in it.
Volume IX: HUMBLE
For Volume IX, our theme is HUMBLE.
To be humble is not necessarily to be small. It can mean remaining teachable: knowing certainty has limits, that attention and posture change us, and that there is always something—or someone—we have not yet learned how to understand.
We’re interested in poems that encounter those limits: work of revision, naivete, misjudgment, and discovery; work that changes its mind or finds itself made strange by what it thought it knew.
HUMBLE is an invitation to learn, unlearn, look again, and stay unfinished.
As always, the theme is a creative prompt, not a requirement.
Poetry Guidelines
Submit up to 3 poems in a single document.
Please include a short, third-person author bio.
File Guidelines
- File type: .doc or .docx
- Formatting: single-spaced, 12 pt, readable typeface
- File name: LastName_Title or another clear equivalent
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If a poem is accepted elsewhere, simply withdraw it or let us know.
Publication, Rights & Contributor Copy Compensation
Selected work will be published at QuibbleLit.com, shared through Quibble’s platforms, and collected in the print edition of Volume IX: HUMBLE.
Every contributor receives a complimentary print copy. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer payment as part of our publication process – we’re still a negative-profit venture, but we will champion the hell out of your work however the best we can.
You retain the rights to your work. Quibble asks only for permission to publish and promote your work as part of the issue, while respecting any existing publishing agreements.
Thank you for trusting us with your work, we take the honor gratefully and look forward to reviewing it!
