Poems and Devotionals that Speak to the Soul
Submission Guidelines
Flowers of the Field is open to writers of many faiths, but we especially welcome poems and devotionals from a Christian perspective. We lean toward works where communication is clear rather than obscure. As a good friend recently said, we prefer to see into the car rather than strain to see the occupants through dark-tinted windows. Cleverness through obfuscation seems less than clever. Please read our About page to gain insight into our purpose and mission.
1. Submit up to three poems and/or one devotional, each as a separate document in a separate email. The submissions' email is cswanson@flowers-of-the-field.com.
2. Each submission must be pasted into the body of the email. We do not accept attachments. Include in the subject line of the email the title of the work and the form of the poem, if the submission is a poem.
3. We do not impose a line length on poems, but we do restrict devotionals to 300 words or less.
4. Submissions must show awareness of the stated theme for each submission call.
5. Please do not submit a bio. We will ask for biographical information if we accept your work.
6. We do not accept simultaneous submissions, nor do we accept reprints. If we choose to feature work already published, such work will be solicited by the editors. Published work includes work that has appeared in any form of electronic media, such as Facebook or a personal blog. It also includes any work that has appeared in print.
7. We do not limit how often a writer’s work may appear in our journal.
8. Flowers of the Field assumes First Electronic/Online Rights, including the right to archive, reprint, or include in an anthology. All other rights remain with the author.
9. Should your work appear in our pages, please credit Flowers of the Field in future publications.
10. We reject manuscripts that do not follow our guidelines. Please be careful and thorough.
11. There is no charge to submit. We also do not offer pay.
Originality:
Any work submitted to Flowers of the Field must be the creation of the author. We do not accept work that has been created, in whole or in part, through the help of Artificial Intelligence. Plagiarized or previously published (or curated) work will fail to qualify. Should we discover after we have accepted a submission, that the work fails to meet these standards, we will pull the work from the journal.