All submissions to Gyroscope Review must be made via our submissions manager, Submittable. We do not accept submissions via post or email. Our response time is between four and twelve weeks. Once you have submitted, please do not submit again within the same reading period. Withdrawing your work to edit then resubmitting is fine.
READING PERIODS
Spring issue: January 15-March 1
Summer issue: April 1-June 1
Fall Crone Power issue: July 1-September 1
Winter issue: October 1-December 1
Note: once we have accepted enough poems to fill an issue, the reading period will close, so submit early. Please submit no more than 4 poems and put poems together in one document, one poem per page. If there are more than 4 poems we will only read the first four and ignore the rest. There are no length restrictions on individual poems. Formats we accept: .doc, .docx, .rtf. Instructions: 12 pt type, Times New Roman type is preferred, and 1" margins. It’s easier for us to read. All poems in one document with page breaks in between poems. Use the name you would like to be published under. Thank you!
DO NOT SEND PICTURES WITH YOUR POEMS.
Please give Gyroscope Review credit as first publisher when you reprint your poems or use them in books.
Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but we ask that you consider our acceptance of your poem(s) as a commitment to be published by Gyroscope Review, and the poem(s) will not be withdrawn after acceptance to go to another publication. That would make us sad. Nobody likes a sniffling editor. If a submission is accepted elsewhere please notify us immediately through Submittable. We’ll be happy for you, we promise!
We do not accept previously published material at this time. This includes publication in print, and on the Internet including on Facebook, poetry sites, and personal blogs. Poetry workshopped behind password-protected sites is okay. Translations must be the author's own work and contain the English and foreign language versions.
Please do not submit if you are not open to being edited. We will work with you on major edits. No racist, or any other -ist, derogatory, or pornographic material. This is determined by the judgment of the editors. By all means, push the envelope, but do so in a tasteful manner.
By submitting you attest that the work is your own. Anonymous submissions are not allowed; however, pen names are acceptable. You grant Gyroscope Review first-time North American publication rights for your submission. All other rights to material published in the Gyroscope Review are retained by the individual authors, photographers, and artists. All published work is archived online. You agree that any subsequent publication, print or on the web, must acknowledge Gyroscope Review as the original publisher. Please include a bio in third person of 100 words or less with your submission. Bios longer than this will be edited down to 100 words. Use the name you’d like to be published under.
Gyroscope Review is open to poetry in all genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Rhyming poetry is a hard sell unless well done. We are open to traditional forms, but keep them contemporary. Poems about writing poems are generally a pass unless it brings something new to the table.
We publish quarterly. Note - Gyroscope Review is not a paying market at this time. We do not send contributors' print copies, but free PDFs are available from our website. Print and Kindle eBook editions are available on Amazon.
Our Fall 2024 Issue is the annual Crone Power Issue. Submissions will be limited to poets over the age of 50 who identify as female. For this special issue, we seek work that examines what it means to be a woman over 50. We're honoring our older (but still awesome) female poets with an issue of their very own. Send us your honest poems, the ones about the heartache and glory of being an older female, dealing with life, the universe, and everything. Let us tell your stories.
IF YOU ARE NOT A WOMAN OR WOMAN-IDENTIFYING POET OVER 50, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT AT THIS TIME. Regular submissions from all poets will resume for our Winter 2025 issue starting October 1, 2024. All submissions to Gyroscope Review must be made via our submissions manager, Submittable. We do not accept submissions via post or email.
No more than four poems from any one author per reading period will be considered. If there are 5 poems in a document, the fifth poem will be ignored and need therapy.
There are no length restrictions on individual poems. Formats we accept: .rtf, .doc, .docx. Do not add any headers, footers, or page numbers. Stick to standard fonts like Times New Roman. Put up to four poems in one document; please make sure each poem is on a separate page and use page breaks between poems.
We do not accept previously published material at this time. This includes publication in print, Facebook, poetry sites, and personal blogs. Translations must be the author's own work and contain English and foreign language versions. Please do not submit if you are not open to being edited. We work with you on edits. No racist, or any other -ist, derogatory, or pornographic material. This is determined by the judgment of the editors. By all means, push the envelope, but do so in a tasteful manner. By submitting you attest that the work is your own and not created by AI. Anonymous submissions are not allowed; pen names are acceptable.
If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the first North American serial rights, in both digital and print formats. Gyroscope Review retains the right to use the accepted work in future anthologies as well as in the online archives. All rights revert to the author after publication by Gyroscope Review. All accepted work will be archived on the website in a PDF. Please include a bio written in third person of up to 100 words. Bios longer than this will be edited down to 100 words at the editor's discretion.
Gyroscope Review is open to poetry in all genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. We publish quarterly. Note – Gyroscope Review is not a paying market at this time. We do not provide contributors printed copies, but free online PDF issues are always available on our website. Paperbacks and Kindle eBooks are available for purchase through Amazon as well as anthologies. Past issues can also be found on Biblio.
Gyroscope Press is geared toward publishing female-identifying poets over the age of 50. Both emerging and established poets are welcome, although poets without a book or chapbook may be given preference.
Submissions are limited to give each chapbook the attention it deserves. Our preference is fine, contemporary poetry, but we'll look at other forms and ideas.
Guidelines: Chapbook length: 30 - 48 poems
Cover letter: Book title, description of the chapbook. Short paragraphs on what motivated you to write this book, why you would like Gyroscope Press to publish your chapbook, and an author bio in 3rd person listing your previously published poems/books and any awards—if you don't have any, that's fine, too. Let us know if this is a simultaneous submission.
Some work may be previously published, but the bulk of the work (1/2) should be unpublished.
Chapbook in one document, 30 to 48 poems plus TOC, Acknowledgements, Bio, etc. Accepted file formats: WORD (.doc or docx) or RTF (rich text format). PDFs to read are acceptable, but we will require a Word doc for publication. Please send your chapbook in a standard font like Times New Roman, 12 point. Do not underline or capitalize titles. If you work on a regular document size of 8.5 x 11, you should reformat the pages to 9 x 6 with 1-inch margins to see how your poems work in the size format we publish.
Simultaneous submissions are permissible; please notify Gyroscope Press immediately if a manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Our response time is usually within 2 months. If chosen for publication, we offer a perfect-bound paperback with a matte or glossy cover, cover creation services, 15 free author copies, the ability to buy more copies at half price, and a percentage of royalties (15%) as well as a page on the Gyroscope Review/Press website.