Journal Submissions

No, Dear comes out each fall and spring, accompanied by issue release readings for the featured poets.

Submissions open through August 15

Guest editor: Caits Meissner

Fall 2026 Theme: BRIDGE

Open to all NYC poets

We can't wait to read your work!

Guidelines:

*Send up to 3 pages of previously unpublished poems as a docx to nodearmagazine@gmail.com (One poem max per page; If you have formatting needs that require a pdf, please send a pdf & a docx).

*We encourage poets for whom this will be your first publication to submit. Please let us know if this would be your first publication.

*Include your neighborhood in your cover letter.

*If you’re open to revision suggestions, let us know. Every once in a while, we love a poem and have a thought about how it could be stronger in the context of the issue.

*NYC poets only!

Chapbook Submissions

ANALOG(UE): call for 2027 chapbook series

Open only to No, Dear poets (Issues 1-35) and their nominees.

What’s lost when physical signals are rendered as fixed and discrete values? For No, Dear’s 2027 chapbook series, a collection of debut works by NYC poets*, we’re looking for cycles of poems that engage with the analog(ue): the protean, the polyvocal, the perpetual, the tactile. Send us your homophones and homographs, your odd proportions and unlikely connections.  

*We consider NYC poets as those who a) live in NYC, b) were born in NYC, or c) have strong connections to NYC. However, if you're a No, Dear poet nominating another poet for submission, that nominee must currently live in NYC.

Submissions open to No, Dear poets & their nominees, August 1-31

If you’re submitting your own chapbook manuscript, and have not yet published a book or chapbook, send 15-30 pages as a .docx or .pdf here. Brief, contextualizing cover letters are welcome.

If you are a poet who has appeared in No, Dear and would like to nominate another poet to submit a first chapbook manuscript, email nodearmagazine@gmail.com with the name of your nominee (and anything else you want to share about them) and send your nominee encouragement and the link to submit.

Series Editors: Elaina Friedman, Arden Levine & danilo machado

Poets will be notified if their manuscripts are selected in the fall.

We don’t charge reading fees, but your donations and chapbook purchases are welcome and essential to supporting this series!