Wet Grain is a magazine for poetry and essays on matters of land-use, provenance, and ownership. It is edited by Patrick Romero McCafferty & Nasim Luczaj.

Since 2020, the magazine has included the work of emerging poets alongside a Nobel Prize nominee, & recipients of awards including the Pulitzer, the Forward, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the German Book Prize, the Somerset Maugham, and the Eric Gregory. The magazine was founded in 2020. Past issues have been guested-edited by Sylee Gore (Issue 4), Leo Boix & Nat Teitler FRSL (Issue 5: Latinx).

Submissions for Issue Nine, edited by Patrick Romero McCafferty and Nasim Luczaj, are open. We welcome poems, essays, or essay pitches on matters of land-use, ownership, and provenance.

Submissions are open until 25th October 2026.

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General Guidelines:

Please send up to five pages of poetry as a .doc or .docx via email to submissions [at] wetgrainpoetry.co.uk with your name in the title of the document. If your work is visual or contains formatting these formats don’t accommodate, feel free to send a pdf.

Essay submissions should not exceed 3000 words. Again, please send us your essay in an editable document.

We welcome submissions in translation provided permission has been obtained to publish the original.

We no longer accept simultaneous submissions.

If you haven’t already, we encourage prospective contributors to familiarise themselves with the poetry we publish by buying a copy of a previous issue.

We also consider pitches of essays and will occassionally publish reviews of recent collections. If you are sending us a pitch please outline why you think it would be a good fit for the magazine in your cover letter along with a sample of your prose.

We encourage and actively seek work by poets from underrepresented and marginalised backgrounds.

We pay £50 per poem, £70 in the case of translation, & £100 per thousand words of prose upon publication.