Submissions

Submissions are open for our Mental Health Poetry anthology.

Send 1-5 poems in the body of an email to roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com. Each poem should not exceed 40 lines. Include a short third person bio. In the subject box of the email please write MENTAL HEALTH. No previously published poems. Simultaneous submissions are fine but please do let us know if your poems get accepted elsewhere.

Submissions open until: 30th May 2026

We are also currently working on putting Poems for Protest and reading for The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize.

“Poems for Protest” will be our newest anthology and will be made available on Amazon internationally. At the moment we can not give free contributor copies but are hoping to do this in the future. In order for us to do the things we want to do at Rough we have to take it slow and steady! The poetry community is a wonderful place and we love putting poetry out into the world. With this considered if you send us messages that are disrespectful then these will be left unanswered.

send your work to roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com

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