One of the UK's longest-running independent magazines, Pennine Platform is A5 format, perfect bound, and publishes 60 pages of new poetry twice yearly, with readers from the Pennine region of northern England and beyond.

Subscribers and contributors may know the area first hand, or have yet to visit. A Pennine flavour to submissions is therefore welcome but by no means essential: more important are resonance, relevance, precision, clarity and originality.

The magazine aims for a broad cultural mix from writers of all ages and backgrounds, especially those who see the platform more as an outward-looking vantage point than a stage. The editors are committed to print format alongside new digital and spoken word opportunities.

Guidelines at pennineplatform.com

Deadline: Monday 28 February 2022