TERMS AND GUIDELINES

1. Submission is free of charge.
2. Works completed within the 3 months prior to the submission deadline are strongly encouraged.
3. All entries must be received by 11:59PM AEST on October 31 2026.
4. Entrants may only submit once per category and may not be edited after submission
5. We reserve the right to change the amount of pieces that will be in the final issue, consider the placements as an estimate.
6. The Evening Heron staff will have final say of which works are included in the issue. Decisions are final and cannot be altered once an issue is considered ‘printed’.
7. There is a baseline $10 AUD honorarium for work that is published in the issue. This amount may increase depending on the donations made in the issue’s submission period.
8. All entries must either use the provided email template or complete the online form. You must follow the appropriate template depending on the category you are submitting for.
9. All work must be the entrant’s original work. Any work that is found to be plagiarised will be removed from the issue and archives.
10. Generative AI must not have been used in the creation of the submitted works. This includes but is not limited to: generating work from a prompt and editing work using AI.
11. All work must be primarily written in English, though may include other languages.
12. You may submit work that has been published in other publications and journals.
13. Successful entrants will be contacted some time following the submission period deadline.
14. Submissions must be in the form of a pdf, docx, or any other editable text format. Refrain from sending images, unless your work is considered experimental.
15. If submitting more than one poem, please combine them in a single file. Entrants may not submit more than 5 poems.