Thank you for considering Kopi Break as a home for your poetry! Please take note of the following guidelines when submitting:
Kopi Break publishes work written by those affiliated with Singapore and the Singaporean diaspora. We are especially excited to platform voices that are traditionally underrepresented in Singaporean publishing.
Please send us one to three poems in a .doc or .docx file attached to an email. Accepted pieces are published on our website and promoted to our email newsletter and Instagram following.
We do not accept poems that have been previously published in other journals, but we do consider poems that you have posted on your personal social media. Upon acceptance, we request that you delete the poem from public domain.
We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your work has been placed elsewhere—and congratulations!
In your cover letter, please include your name, a sentence explaining your affiliation with Singapore, a short biography, and a note on whether the work is a simultaneous submission.
We endeavour to respond to all submissions within one month. We don’t accept revisions to accepted poems, so please ensure that the draft you submit is final.
We ask for worldwide non-exclusive first publishing rights, with a credit to Kopi Break in subsequent publications. We pay $10 SGD per poem.
Starting June 2024, we close submissions quarterly. To be considered for our January-March 2025 line-up, submit your poems by December 15, 2024.
