Great news: Knockout is currently closed to submissions, as we're catching up on previous submissions and reading for the 2012 Reginald Shepherd Poetry Prize. Please note that we have changed our submission policy. When we open up for submissions, it will be posted here. Please note: We will no longer accept postal submissions. Instead, we will only accept submissions through our online submission manager, Submishmash.

To our knowledge, we've responded to all of the submissions we received in our Google accounts. If there was an outstanding issue or we didn't respond, please don't hesitate to contact us at knockoutpoetry AT gmail.com. (In retrospect, Google mail is not the best way to keep track of submissions.) We're damn confident that the new system will help us stay organized and make our response times faster.

You can access our submission manager here.

Other than that, our submission policy is pretty similar. As always, we're looking for quality work in pretty much any form. We like formal poetry and free verse, prose poems and short shorts, and pretty much everything in between. We're primarily looking for poetry, but we're open to short non-fiction and fiction pieces too (three pages, tops). As always, Knockout is as GLBT-friendly as ever.

• Submissions are free.
• No previously published work (even if it occurred online).
• Please send only 3-5 poems, and only send one batch of work at a time.
• Please don't submit more than three times a year.
• Simultaneous submissions are just fine, but let us know pronto if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• Payment is publication, and one copy of the issue.