De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) cannot, at the moment, pay its contributors.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog)’s editors, Cosimo Suglia and Maxime Heim, are the sole deciders if a poem is accepted or not; they are Cerberus.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog)’s editor, Cosimo Suglia and Maxime Heim, reserve the right not to explain the reasons for accepting or rejecting a poem.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) encourages new voices.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) encourages poetry written in Luxembourgish.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) does not accept AI-generated poems.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) will (almost) immediately post the poem to the website after acceptance.
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) will also post your poem on its Instagram account: @schwaarzenhond
De Schwaarzen Hond (Black Dog) has no rights to the poems and only publishes them; if you choose to have them taken down, for whatever reason, we will do that.
GUIDELINES
Please read the Manifesto.
Please send in poems not bigger than one (1) A4-page.
Please use the font Times New Roman, 12pt in size, and 1,0 line spacing.
Please use the DOCX format, not PDF.
Please send your submission including your name, Instagram handle, and poem at: schwaarzenhond@anerwelten.lu
EXAMPLES
Here some examples of poetry we are looking for:
- Else Lasker-Schüler, Die schwarze Bhowanéh
- Stephen Crane, In the Desert
- William Warning Cuney, No Images
- Aram Saroyan, Paradise
- Aram Saroyan, At a Bus Stop