Submissions

We are open for submissions for…

Poems for Protest. The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize

Poems for Protest

We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest”

Send us 1-5 poems in the body of an email to roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com and send us a short bio. Simultaneous submissions are fine but no previously published poems.

Submissions will close on 10th January 2026. Please only send us one set of poems each submission round.

We are especially interested in shedding light on Palestine and the horrific treatment of its people. But, as always, we want a range of poems that reflect on today. There is so much hatred in the world and we do not wish to read right wing hatred. If this offends you then we are most definitely not the right press to send your work to.

“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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