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We read submissions of poetry during the month of August. Please send a friendly number of poems in one MS Word attachment before August 31, 2009. Introduce yourself to us in the body of the email and feel free to include a list of previous publications, if any.

For issue 13 we are particularly interested in Recovery Projects, which are brief essays celebrating a single book that you feel people should be reading but are not reading. The recovery should be about 1000 words, about a book that is at least 20 years old & out of print, but all those are flexible. The only real requirement is that the recovery inspires a reader to want to track down that book and read it as soon as possible. Please write us to pitch a Recovery Project.

Send poems or recoveries to octopusmagazine@gmail.com

All rights revert to the authors upon publication in Octopus, and the works can then be subsequently published, though we ask that Octopus get its props as the place of initial publication. We'll accept simultaneous submissions; just let us know if it is accepted elsewhere. We do not consider previously published work.