Guidelines for Contributors

(Last update, May 16, 2026)

Email for submissions:
journalcoldmoon(at)gmail(dot)com

Editors: Timothy Daly, Oana Cercel.

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You may submit a single email per reading period containing 1-5 poems (e.g. haiku, senryu, tanka) or one haibun, tanka prose, or haiga.

Submissions are currently closed until further notice.

Poems must be uncurated, original (no AI), not under consideration elsewhere, and in English. We encourage translations alongside, but the quality of the English version will determine publication. 

No e-mail attachments will be opened. Please send to: journalcoldmoon(at)gmail(dot)com.

All writing styles welcomed. We are happy to receive your artwork, particularly haiga sketches and black-and-white photographs.

Both acceptance and rejection notices are sent. 

You will never see anything here that suggests racism, violence or prejudice.

All rights revert back to the poet upon publication. However, we will be featuring selected work on CMJ social media. See, for example, our Instagram, Facebook & TikTok! So by submitting, you give us tacit permission to share accepted work on different social media platforms including Instagram, X, BlueSky, YouTube and TikTok (as part of video readings and other adaptations). Moreover, authors grant us the non-exclusive right to publish their work in the journal and in future print and/or digital anthologies, including those for sale. Authors retain all other rights to their work.

We nominate for various annual haiku and poetry awards.