"The New Material Ecopoetics" Call for Submissions

For the Fall 2026 issue of Arc Poetry Magazine, we’re looking for poetic responses to resistance movements around the world and explorations of protest through poetry. Send us poems that look at injustices and ongoing violence, or poems that advocate for rest in the face of exhaustion from marginalization. Send us poems that oppose the status quo, withstand attacks and temptations, and refuse to be categorized.

Submissions

Submit your poems by July 15, 2026 to be considered.

Submissions must not exceed 3 poems or 360 lines of poetry.
If you have submitted to Arc’s general call for submission, you may still submit work for this issue. Submitting poems for this issue does not count towards the three poems per calendar year limit.
If you are submitting 2 or 3 poems, you must submit these as separate files. All poems must be sent as individual submissions.

Please email pitches for essays, How Poems Work articles, interviews, or book reviews related to this themed issue. If you have an inquiry about this issue, please contact Managing Editor Chris Johnson at managingeditor@arcpoetry.ca. Arc cannot promise to respond to all inquiries regarding the status of submitted poems before the completion of our reading period.

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Payment & Publication

Arc’s rate for poetry is $50 per print page. Payment is issued upon publication along with one free copy of the issue in which the work appears. With acceptance, Arc secures First Canadian Serial Rights, meaning the poems should not appear in any print or digital publication before the release of the issue in which the work appears. All rights will revert to the author upon publication.

Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone can submit to this themed call, and Arc especially encourages submissions from BIPOC poets and 2SLGBTQ+ poets.

Please send your pitches for prose pieces (essays, interviews, How Poems Work articles, reviews) to Chris Johnson: managingeditor@arcpoetry.ca. Include a brief note of your writing history and a 100-200 word pitch that includes how your prose piece would engage with this issue’s theme.

Please email Arc a pitch (100-200 words) first. We generally publish essays that are between 1500-2000 words, and our standard rate is $50 per print page (approx. 400 words per page). We accept brief book reviews with a preferred word count of 500 words for a flat rate of $80 OR feature reviews at $50 per print page with a discussion of at least two books of poetry, 800-1200 preferred word count.

Please provide content warnings at your own discretion. If you would like us to provide a content warning to go along with your published work, please indicate the content warning after your work’s title.

Arc Poetry Magazine accepts work from international artists.

Arc will notify all submitters of acceptance or rejection after the closing of the submission deadline. Please do not inquire about your work until at least three months after the submission deadline.

Please do not be discouraged! Sometimes it is a matter of subjectivity, other times it is a matter of readiness. Continue to submit to other magazines and to Arc in the future. We hope your work finds a home one day!