New queer poetry is in an exciting place.

We want to represent all that’s thrilling about the new wave of LGBTQ+ poets. If you’re a poet, even if you’ve never been published before, we want to read your work.

Our current publishing opportunities are below. Please read them carefully and make sure you stick to the guidelines as much as possible so that we can accept your work.

Submission guidelines

With our anthology submissions, please send a single Word or pdf document containing your work, with a small additional paragraph about yourself. We judge the poems blind, so try to keep your name off the actual document if possible. Don’t worry too much about what to say in the paragraph. We just want to know a little bit about you, how you identify, if you’ve been published elsewhere, and what your work is like. Please don’t include any graphics or images in the bio or in your submission.

We’re based in London, but publish poets from all over the world. Submission is free and, with our anthologies, you retain your copyright. We know how difficult it is to get published, so we’re happy for you to submit elsewhere simultaneously. We don’t publish work that has already been published online or in print.

Our anthologies

We publish our anthology of the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets around 3 times a year and we want to include you! Our submissions window is rolling, but the deadline for Issue 18 is 9am, London time on 15th September 2025. We confirm receipt of your submission after the deadline has passed, so you can expect us to confirm by September 29th. You’ll hear back from us by early December at the latest with a decision. We contact all poets, whatever our decision.

To be considered, email up to five previously unpublished poems in a single pdf or Word document, with a small paragraph about yourself to hello@14poems.com. Please do not include graphics or images. At this time, we are unable to accept translation work. We pay £30 for each poem published.

Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral

We’re thrilled to announce a new book, coming in 2027 and edited by Caleb Nichols. Home on the Range: Poems of the Queer Pastoral will collect together exciting contemporary poets  writing about queerness and nature, helping create a new canon of LGBTQ+ writers in a genre that has traditionally been off-limits to them. 

The book will celebrate and complicate a poetics of queer nature, from redefining the boundaries between the urban, the rural, and the wilderness, to rendering the ways in which queer people make their homes in the pastoral traditions which have so often excluded them. Send us your strangest, sexiest, thirstiest, poems that, broadly speaking, fit with or interrogate the theme of queer pastoral. One example of this is Richard Scott’s poem, ‘Pastoral’, from his excellent collection Soho, but many other possibilities abound. 

The book will be edited by Caleb Nichols and released via fourteen poems in early 2027. We will have an open call for all queer poets that feel moved by the themes, whether published or new to writing. The submission window will run by September 15th until December 15th and we will be accepting a maximum of 3 poems per submission. Please check back on September 15th for the link to submit. No poems can be considered until September 15th.

Can’t wait to read your poems!

About Caleb Nichols
Caleb Nichols is the Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo, California. Their poetry has been published on both sides of the Atlantic in places like the New England Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Poetry Wales. An emerging voice in queer poetry, they earned a PhD in Creative Writing from Bangor University in North Wales. Their books, published by Bottlecap Press, Broken Sleep, and Gasher Press, have been lauded by leading queer voices, including Eduardo C. Corral who called their pamphlet Chan Says & Other Songs “marvelously queer.” Caleb teaches English at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, where he also owns and operates the pop-up bookshop, SLO Bookbike.

Solo pamphlets

Every year we publish a batch of poetry pamphlets that we’re excited for you to read. Previous books include the PBS Spring Choice from Ellora Sutton, as well as poetry from Remi Graves, David Nash, Thomas Stewart, Cleo Henry, Mícheál McCann, Georgie Henley, kevanté ac cash, Luís Costa, and Dale Booton.

The submission window for the 2024/25 batch is now closed. We expect to reopen it in the late autumn of 2025. Sign up to our newsletter to find out when we’re open for new submissions!