What is it like to live in your body? We want work that answers this question.

Submission Guidelines

POETRY 

We want your skin, your liver, your islets of Langerhans. We want your joy and your frustration. We want to be surprised by your elegance and stunned by your forthrightness. We want to be impressed with your craft and your commitment. We are much less impressed with grand proclamations than we are by specific vulnerability. To submit:

- Email up to 5 poems (no more than 10 pages) to rogueagentjournalATgmailDOTcom.

- Make your email subject [FIRST INITIAL] [LAST NAME] POETRY SUBMISSION.

- Submit all poems together in one DOC, DOCX, or RTF file.

- Do not submit PDF files. We will reject any PDF submissions as they are not accessible for the blind and visually impaired. 

- If your poem has extremely specialized formatting, send it in one of our accepted file types and make a note in your cover letter that there's specialized formatting for a specific poem so we can ask you for a JPG of the poem if it is accepted.

- In the body of the email, include a cover letter with a short (50 - 75 words) bio and your contact information, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram if you would like us to tag you.

- Do not submit poetry and artwork in the same email. If you are submitting both, send them separately.

Rogue Agent strives to publish a range of poetic styles and forms. The most important things we consider are craft and how well the work fits the theme of our journal. 

Rogue Agent is published monthly with ten poets, one poem apiece.

To get a feel for our journal's theme, we invite you to explore over 80 previous issues, and also the work we have linked to in our section entitled For Inspiration.

PLEASE NOTE: 

Due to an increase in the volume of submissions, we request that you do not submit to Rogue Agent more than twice in one calendar year.

Do not send your poems pasted into the body of your email. 

Do not send a second submission if your first submission is still under consideration.

We consider submissions in one genre at a time. 

We read year round. Response time is 1-3 months. Please do not query before 3 months have elapsed.

If your submission is rejected, please wait at least 2 months before re-submitting. 

If your work is accepted, please wait 4 months before submitting again.

We do not consider poems that have already been published. 

We consider collaborative work. Please provide bios and contact info for both authors in your cover letter.

Translations are considered collaborative work. Please provide bios and contact info for both the author and the translator in your cover letter.

Simultaneous submissions are fine as long as you notify us immediately which poem has been accepted elsewhere. 

At this time, we only consider poetry for publication in Rogue Agent, and we can only pay you in love.

If you agree to publish with Rogue Agent, you grant us first serial rights. You also grant us rights to archive all accepted work on our site, and through media closely associated with our site, including social media. All other rights remain with the author. If your work is published in another collection after its publication here, you should acknowledge Rogue Agent as being the venue in which it first appeared.

artwork

We feature the work of artists who investigate the same question as our poetry: what is it like to live in the body? To that end, we very much want you to submit your illustrations, photographs, collages, paintings, digital art, or video (please link to YouTube or Vimeo; do not send the video file), a bio (approximately 75 words) and an artist statement that clearly describes how your artwork is a fit for our journal: how does it answer the question “what is it like to live in your body?” While we cannot offer you monetary compensation at this time, we can provide you with a wider audience for your work, with a link to your website, Tumblr, or blog in your bio. To show us your artwork that captures the embodied experience:

- Email 3 - 5 high-resolution JPGs to rogueagentjournalATgmailDOTcom.

- Make your email subject [FIRST INITIAL] [LAST NAME] ART SUBMISSION.

- In the body of the email, include a cover letter with the title of each image, an artist's statement about your project, a short (50-75 words) bio, a link to your artist's website, and your contact information, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram if you would like us to tag you.

- You must include the artist's statement for us to consider your work.

- Do not submit poetry and artwork in the same email. If you are submitting both, send them separately.