Submission Guide

A guide to writing for Tanka Town

Photo by David Klein on Unsplash

GUIDELINES

Tanka Town shares original Tanka, Haiku, and Haibun poetry.

Please read this guide carefully for instructions on submitting your poetry to Tanka Town.

This guide is subject to change.

• All work must adhere to Medium’s Rules and Curation Guidelines.
• Work should be well-written with spelling and grammar checked prior to submission.
• Poetry must be single-spaced.
• For consistency, please capitalize the first letter of each word in the main title.
• Only previously unpublished work will be shared.
• Only one submission per person per day.
• Poems should be tagged with poetry and either haiku or tanka or haibun before submitting.
• Submissions should include a relevant image with the copyright owner of the image attributed. Writers must have permission to use the image.
• An editor may leave a comment and/or recommend changes to submissions before accepting.
• Editors also reserve the right to make changes to submissions.
• Please allow several days for editors to review submissions.