White Lotus is a classy 5.5" x 8.5" chapbook style biannual magazine featuring haiku, senryu, tanka and haiga. Two issues will be offered yearly: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer of corresponding seasonal themed haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga released in August and February respectively.

Subscription Rates: $15.00/year US; $20.00/year International; Single Copy: $10.00. Make checks payable to "Shadow Poetry" or order online.

Submissions: White Lotus accepts high quality submissions of these forms: haiku, senryu, tanka and haiga. Taiga, sumi-e and haiku related articles and/or book reviews are welcome. Since this is a small press operation, White Lotus does not pay for submissions should they appear within an issue or give contributors free copies. All monies from subscriptions go toward the production of the magazine and shipping costs. Magazine subscriptions may be purchased on the above "Subscriptions" link, or the exact issue be purchase on the "Order Back Issues" once it is made available.

Submission Deadlines:

June 30 - Fall/Winter Issue
December 31 - Spring/Summer Issue

Send up to ten pieces per poet for review by mail, email to whitelotus@shadowpoetry.com or via the submission form below. Name of the poet, address, and email address (if applicable) must accompany all submissions, no exceptions. No simultaneous submissions, please.

All work, if accepted, must be the original work(s) of the poet/author/artist and previously unpublished. No previously web published poetry. White Lotus will have first-time publishing rights to all accepted material until after the release of the said issue when copyrights will revert back to the original author/artist so that he/she may republish the same material elsewhere. We also reserve the right to republish any work that has been accepted into a White Lotus magazine for any furture White Lotus or Shadow Poetry publication without prior notification. Again, contributor copies will not be given or supplied to any poet, author and/or artist appearing within these publications. Neither Shadow Poetry nor the White Lotus will ever take or sell the copyrights to anyone’s works.

Acceptance letters will be sent to all poets and authors appearing within an issue at least three weeks before the magazine is scheduled for release.

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