Bones Journal - closed

[Seaview (Marion Clarke)]

Bones - a journal for the short poem

Short poems incl. hai/ku (but don't send tradtional/mainstream haiku, please).
Minimal haibun/gembun with a maximum of 30 words in the prose.
Minimal/ist poetry.
One-line poetry/monostich.
Micropoetry.
Short verse. Max. 15 lines.
NO-SCI-FI
NO CHERITA
NO TANKA
NO "FOUND" POETRY
NO ERASURE/REMIX poetry. It's stealing!
Visual Art only by invitation.
If in doubt, read a few of the previous issues

Published/not published:

Bones does not accept previously published work(s). Bones considers works having been through an editorial process (by someone else than the author him/herself) as published. Works published on social media or private blogs are not considered published.

Bones is not a literary journal, so we don't read or publish essays and academic texts.
Bones doesn't accept work under consideration elsewhere.

All works must original.

We advise any new submitters to read a few issues of the journal to get acquainted with what kind of haiku/writing BONES is all about.

DON'T send your bio. IF you have read any of the previous issues you will see that Bones focuses on the poem rather than the poet. Bones is not interested in where you have been published, of past merits. What counts is the work you submit. (and Bones doesn't care how many cats you have or what dietary plan you cling to).

Keep your submission simple!!!

Avoid all superfluous information in your attached document. Click here to see the "ideal" attached document. Name your attached file with your own name.

Send a maximum of 10 single haiku or poems or minimal haibun/gembun and/or 2 series/sequences of maximum 5 haiku.

Submission Deadlines:

February 1st - February 28th for the April 1st issue
August 1st - August 31st for the October 1st issue


Submissions: submission (at) bonesjournal (dot) com

with "Submission to bones" in the subject line

Please send your works only as ATTACHMENTS and not in the body of the email. Email formatting easily gets lost when transferred into the programs I use to make the journal. I take doc, docx, rtf, odt - please avoid sending "pages" files (Mac) and pdf.

Please make sure that your name and email address is in the attached doucment.

Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Editor

Website:
http://www.bonesjournal.com/submission.html

[Seaview (Marion Clarke)]

Open during August

[Seaview (Marion Clarke)]

Closing soon

[Joshua St. Claire]

Is bones still open? I thought that its previous issue was the last one? Are they on a new website now?

[AlanSummers]

Is bones still open? I thought that its previous issue was the last one? Are they on a new website now?

I was a co-founder years ago with Johannes S H Bjerg (Denmark), along with Sheila Windsor (England), and Johannes, who became sole editor a while back, has laid the wonderful journal to rest with this last message:


This issue, no 26, is the last issue of Bones.
This site will remain on-line till September 1st 2024.
All issues will be transferred to an on-line archive at some point. News of this will be published here.
https://www.bonesjournal.com