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Meet our Editors

Wailing and Gnashing's contributing editor team is an ever growing group of poets with the shared goal of seeking out diverse and interesting poems. They range in disciplines, education, and prestige and are selected by their abilities to give honest, constructive feedback and their driving passion for Poetry.

Chris Atkin is an English Teacher, spoken word poet, and two time Pushcart Prize nominee living in Draper, UT. His work has been published in Last Leaves Magazine, The Rising Phoenix Review, and the Lascaux Review. Chris loves poems that push the boundaries between page and performance, take big risks, and speak to the things that make us human.

Chris Atkin (he/him)

Founder and
Editor in Chief
 

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Andrew Earley (he/him)

Founder and
Contributing Editor
 

Andrew Earley is a poet, spoken word performer, and multidisciplinary artist living in Salt Lake City. He is executive director of Alternative Arts and Music Program Utah, and has dedicated his life to the curating and celebration of  artists and poets. He has 20 years experience in Slam and Performance Poetry, and loves poetry that speaks to political activism and finding the silver linings life leaves buried in struggle. 

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DeAnn Emett (she/her), who mainly goes by De, is a former slam master of Salt City Slam, and served on the board of trustees for the non-profit organization, Wasatch Wordsmiths, as both vice president and president. She was on six consecutive National Poetry Slam teams and also competed in three consecutive Women of the World Poetry Slams. DeAnn is a two-time semi-finalist at NPS and a one-time WoWPS finalist. 

She has been published by Deep Water Literary Journal, Wicked Banshee Press, and Ellipsis Literature and Art. 

DeAnn Emett (she/her)

Contributing Editor
 

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Halee takes crazy good photos and has a cool teacher. She probably will have some notes on this bio for us later...

Halee Horelica 

Staff Photographer
 

Interested in becoming an Editor?

Send us an Email with a short bio and a pitch for why you think you'd be a fantastic addition to our editing team. Including your poetry isn't necessary, but certainly can't hurt.

SUBMISSIONS

Submission Guidelines

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Wailing or Gnashing?

 

   Before submitting your poetry, decide whether your submission qualifies as a wailer or a gnasher, and label each poem in your submission with the category that best fits your work based on the descriptions below:

 

   Wailers are raw, unfiltered, and unrefined. These are the poems that didn’t just leap out of your brain, they clawed their way up and out of you to claim a space on the page and now refuse to be moved. Send us your first drafts, you late night ravings fueled by nothing but rage and monster ultra, your hand written love poems-- their pages still wet with dewy heartache, and any of your other work that needs to exist.

 

   Gnashers have been ground down. These are your poems that have been through the gauntlet, forged in the fires of your google drive and tinkered on by wordsmiths until every nook and cranny has been nitpicked and you are sure its sharpest edges have been honed to perfection. 

 

   If you don’t know which category to submit to, do not fear! Simply do not label your poems and we will decide what category you will be published under upon acceptance. Labeling your poems upon submission will, however, streamline the editorial process and should expedite our response time. 


 

What we accept:

 

  • Submissions of 1-3 poems (no restrictions on length or style, but be warned, we all have ADHD and attention spans to match. That’s all to say, if your poems are especially long they better be especially good!) We do accept work previously published in other journals so long as you maintain the rights to your work. 

  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged! Go get that bread! But if your poem is accepted elsewhere before you hear from us, please let us know if a poem needs to be withdrawn or attributed to the original publisher. Email wailingandgnashing@aamputah.org with (withdrawal/publication notification- name) in the subject line.)

 

We will not accept:

 

  • Any work that has been written in whole or in part by Artificial Intelligence. 

  • We are committed to fostering a creative space that celebrates diversity and promotes respectful expression. Submissions containing hate speech, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or any form of discriminatory or dehumanizing content will not be accepted. We reserve the right to reject work that goes against these values.

 
General Submission Guidelines

 

  • Submit through the form linked at the bottom of this page. 

  • We prefer docx/doc. Only send us a PDF if your formatting is complex enough to require it.

  • Remember to label each poem as either a Wailer or a Gnasher

  • If you submit before you’ve heard back from us, your submission(s) will be ignored.

  • Please include a short cover letter and bio in the body of your submission email.

  • If accepted, please wait 6 months before submitting again.

  • We encourage submissions from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women-identified, Palestinian, emerging, and disabled writers, as well as submissions from educators and any other historically marginalized writers.

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Rights:

 

  • We acquire First North American serial rights, and rights revert to the author upon publication. We ask to be acknowledged in any future reprints.

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Response Time:
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  • We aim to respond within 3 months. If you haven’t heard from us after 4 months, feel free to reach out.

  • Expedited 2 week responses available (info below).

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Payment: 
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  • General submissions are and always will be free.

  • We have options for expedited ($10) and feedback ($30) responses. Please Venmo @aamputah and include your full name in the Venmo note, along with the tag “W&G expedited” or “W&G feedback” (or both if need be!). 

  • We also accept and appreciate any donations to our tip jar. Same Venmo as above! Put “W&G Tip Jar” in your note, we do our best not to let tips effect our judgement, but they do help with our hosting fees!

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Click here for submissions!

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