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An online journal for new poetry. Edited by @matthewphmc.
Berlin, Germany
Joined June 2022
Submission call for issue one of berlin lit, a journal for new poetry in English. Two cool things about us: we’re based in Berlin, and we pay our poets.
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Thanks to everyone who has reposted and hearted the posts about submissions being open. It makes a huge difference and is much appreciated. So here’s one more post. Still open for submissions until 20th September. Send poems.
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berlin lit is open for poetry submissions for issue five until 20th September. Details here:.
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Keep those poems coming in! Berlin Lit is open to submissions for issue two until November 12. Contributors will be paid per published poem. Check out the details here.
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berlin lit will be open for poetry submissions from 15 March to 10 April. More info and submissions guidelines here:
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Keep those poems coming! Still open for poetry submissions until 20th September.
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Berlin Lit will be open to submissions for issue two from the 15th of October to the 12th of November. Check out the guidelines here: and issue one at
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Only one week left to submit to Berlin Lit for issue two. The submissions window closes on the 12th of November. Contributors receive 20 euros per published poem. Treat yourself by checking out the stunning poetry in issue one.
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Issue one of berlin lit is online. Thanks to everyone who submitted. Thanks to the contributors. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way. Thanks to all the lit mags that inspired and helped promote this lit mag. So grateful to the incredible poets featured in this issue.
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Open for poetry submissions until May 15. Link below for more details. Can’t wait to read your poems! .
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Only one day left to submit! Berlin Lit will be open to submissions for issue two until the 12th of November, 11:59pm Berlin time.
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Issue six features four poems by Elisa Gabbert. This is ‘Poem with a line from Antigone’
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Unlike crime. berlin lit pays…. contributors…. 20 euros per published poem.
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Theres still time! Open for poetry submissions for issue 6 until tomorrow night (11:59 pm, January 16).
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A huge thanks to everyone who has submitted their poetry for issue one of berlin lit. It’s been an overwhelming and inspiring few weeks. Submissions are open until August 21. We can’t wait to read your poems!.
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Submissions close at midnight tonight (Berlin time) for issue four. Get those poems in!.
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Unlike shops in Berlin on a Sunday, we’re open…to poetry submissions…from now until the 8th of February.
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The current issue features stunning work by Bianca Stone @biancastone .This is ‘B&W’, from the sequence ‘The Black House Poems’.
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Unlike Berlin beer gardens in winter, we‘re open… to poetry submissions… until February 8.
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‘This morning a woman on the display screens at Best Buy asked why can’t I be talented?’ by Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr
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The current issue features five poems.by Cynthia Cruz. This is ‘Fragment’, which can also be read here:.
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Last day to submit to berlin lit for issue three. Here’s a link to the submissions page. Get those poems in!.
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Getting ready to launch issue one very soon. So excited to be publishing such fantastic poetry.
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Unlike the Berlin tax office. berlin lit is open. to work which is open. to interpretation. until February 8.
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One of three poems by Shane McCrae @akasomeguy in issue seven, ‘Blank Verse Sonnet on America Is Listening’.
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October 3 is the Day of German Unity (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), and it’s a public holiday. Seems like the perfect time to launch a Berlin-based journal for poetry in English. At midnight tonight [00:00 CET] berlin lit goes live.
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Only 2 days left! We’re accepting poetry submissions until Sunday, August 21, 23:59 [CET].
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‘but how’m I meant to focus on my growth.if constantly diverted by a mystery slosh.’. from ‘Tributaries’ by Liam Bates @liambatespoet .
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We, and by that I mean us, deny all.in the same way a river denies the weight of. a dying salmon. from ‘The Heart Pushes Out, The Heart Rests’, by Stuart McPherson @theeabsentee .
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Issue two features four poems by Berlin-based poet and novelist Susan Finlay. Here’s one of them: ‘Katzenzungen’.
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‘if this is how we drift apart .from ourselves .distinct at first then fading .don’t think lessness but dissolving back .into solution’. from ‘Mist Fugue’ by Philip Gross @philipgrossuk .
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‘Send me’ by Bill Greenwell. Which brings to mind the fact that berlin lit is open for poetry submissions until 10 April.
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Poet and novelist Alice Miller and berlin lit editor Matthew McDonald discuss poetry, music and the creative process. Featuring poems by @lukekennard @libglib @markleidner @stewartasanders and Joseph von Eichendorff. Hosted by Breandáin O’Shea.
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One of three gems by Suzanne Verrall in issue two of berlin lit.
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This poem by @crispinbest perfectly captures the feeling of being open for submissions again at Berlin Lit. It’s also here
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‘think about BICYCLES.their mechanisms & textures their character & potential.if you have a bicycle go & touch it all over’. Struggling to get in the mood for writing poems? Try ‘Mingling Ritual’ by @CalebParkin for some inspiration.
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As everyone’s talking about where to go next, it seems like a good moment to consider this poem by @markleidner.
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‘Yes you are losing your mind but you are .losing your mind while being .fitted for a bespoke suit in the drawing room’. from The Lamb, by Luke Kennard.
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‘You were once told that .you don’t miss a person. You miss the period they represent. What they were trying to say was.we’re over ·· ‘. from ‘Hapiness’ by Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi . You can read the full poem here: .
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The first submissions for issue one are rolling in! We couldn’t be more excited.
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Other trees, what did we name them?.The imaginary ledger of things .you point at and say, Wow. from ‘Texas Noir’ by William Stanier
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Berlin Lit is an online Journal for new poetry. Submissions open until August 21 for issue one. See for more details. We can’t wait to read your poems!.
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pluck you from you. littlecormorant, blackswan, whitefacedheron,. death can feed. so many solitudes. from ‘Altar-bread’ by Jonathan Dunk. Read the full poem here:.
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from ‘Waxworks’, by Lavinia Singer @lcosinger. This stunning poem is best read on a computer or laptop. You’ll see why.
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From ‘Friends’ by Jared White. You can read the full poem in issue four.
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‘It is always a strange time to be a body’. From ‘A King’, by Alice Miller.
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‘You wish people would open up more. I think wait you can’t unsee that stuff.’. from ‘Brother’, by Chris Andrews.
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‘Maybe the fortune teller is a beautiful liar.’. from ‘Bellwether’, a poem by Matthew Burnside @MatthewBurnsid7 .
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‘to green add green.before it’s unremarkably all gone.like water into deeper water falling’. John Glenday. You can read the rest of this stunning poem here
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‘welcome to a century of complete misery’. from the wonderful and wonderfully strange ‘your character is very good but it can also be very bad’ by Charlie Baylis @charliebaylis6 .
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‘It’s safe to say that a great painter of .seascapes also has to be.a great painter of the sky’. from Pink Lotus, by Timothy Donnelly.
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