About Orbis

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Introductory Offer
If taking out subs by July 31:  complimentary copy of July/August Kudos
(runs right up to mid September, and beyond in some cases)

Or, two back issues of Orbis for a fiver; reduced to half price.

1 issue (UK; post free): £5
(Overseas; airmail: £6/€10/$15)

1 year UK (post free): £17 (4 copies)
(Overseas; airmail: £24/€25/$46)

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Just buy 1 poetry magazine, and what do you get for your money…

Any publication should be read cover to cover
because it’s the best way to improve your chances of getting published.
(And once your work appears, in most cases it also helps of course if
you, your better half, Mum and Dad and best friend, each purchase a copy).

With Orbis, each writer is eligible for the Readers Award: £50
(plus £50 divided between the runners-up)

Poems are also submitted to the Forward Prize (UK)
and the Pushcart Prize (USA).

And all contributors receive proofs and critiques:

‘This is the poem I meant to write. Thank you so much.’ (UK)

‘I’m so impressed by the painstaking care you’ve devoted to my poem; your suggestions are the sort of thing a good workshop session would provide.’ (Ireland)

‘Your editorial expertise has been invaluable for improving my work’ (New York)

‘Wow – I thought it was all finished but you have made it so much better.’ (New Zealand)

Orbis International Literary Journal:
84 pages of news, reviews, views, letters, features, prose
and quite a lot of poetry.

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Publishers:  please do not send review copies to me

Also, press releases preferred in first instance,
for the attention of the Associate Editor/Orbis Reviews Editor,
Nessa O’Mahony
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Requirements
Besides poems - and occasionally upbeat doesn’t come amiss, Orbis welcomes prose, 500 to 1000 words, suggestions for cover artwork and features, eg the Past Master Section, or indeed, Past Mistress. 500 to 1000 words; ideas in first instance, not completed articles: subjects for discussion, technical, topical etc:

‘ No wonder poetry sales are so small when little respect is shown to the reader, with editors encouraging people who are exponents of their own vanity’.

Guidelines
Submissions by post: four poems; two prose pieces, 500 to1000 words
Please enclose SAE with ALL correspondence. Overseas: 2 IRCs; 3 if work is to be returned

Via email, Overseas only: two poems or one piece of prose in body. No attachments

Please note, although priority and hopefully a swift response is given to first time enquiries, usually within a month, subsequently, replies can take longer due to the volume of mail.
Subscribers usually receive an answer re submissions in 3 months at the latest, ie with the following issue of the magazine.

When work is returned with an invite for further submissions, please do not interpret ‘in due course’ as by return of post.
And with email, it does not mean send more within the next half hour either.

If work is already being held on file, further submissions cannot be considered. Work on file is generally retained for a maximum of six months only.

After publication, contributors are requested to wait about 12 months before sending more poems.

Subs: cheques payable to Carole Baldock; post to

17 Greenhow Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 5EL

Subs pa: £15 for four copies.
Overseas: £20; €30 or $40; 46 dollars, airmail

Single issue: £4. Overseas: £5; €10 or $12, all including post and packing: $14, airmail

From #147, subs will have to be increased – for the first time in decades…

£17 pa; £23 OS: $46; €30. Single issue: £6; $15; €10