How to get Poetry Published

The Research and Consultancy Committee of the ELC, UTAS-Ibri, hosted a webinar titled How to get Poetry Published on December 16. Dr Zola Gonzalez introduced the audiences to different ways of getting poetry published in international research journals of repute(both paid and unpaid). She demonstrated submitting poems to Griffel, a journal of international repute. Dr Zola shared an interesting observation and said that when a poem is submitted for publication, its just not just for publishing but also to people, biases, preferences, readers, screeners and editors who project themselves as gatekeepers by establishing their values when it comes to poetry and other forms of writing. She also shared the latest norms of publishing poetry. The session was interesting to those who had a penchant for poetry.

Profile

Dr Zola Gonzalez-Macarambon is a writer and teacher from Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Her works are published in various national and international publications, including Gasher (USA), Poets Choice (India), Loch Raven Review (USA), Cordite (Australia), Peril (Australia), Asian Cha (Singapore), among others.  In 2021 she received the Pandemic Writers Grant from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (the USA. She received the Ninja Arts Grant for ‘Sendong’, a suite of poems ranked 1st by judges of the Hawker Prize for Poetry 2019. She has a PhD in Communications from Monash University (Australia), an institution ranking among the world’s top 100.