The latest season of Wander is looking for submissions from writers with lived experience of seeking refuge or migration & Mincéir/Traveller writers.
Wander podcast creates a space for poets with direct experience of migration/exile and seeking refuge and for those from the Traveller community.
+ five shortlisted poems will receive €150 each
+ publication on Wander 2025 podcast
+ three poems will be selected for a poetry video created by artist Silvio Severino (@loopconspiracy)
Entry Deadline: April 30th
Send a mp3 of your poem with a short bio, your socials and contact details to: wandersubmissions@gmail.com
Please read the rules below.
RULES:
- Mp3 files ONLY. Must be read in your own voice – no AI.
- Poems in other languages are welcome, but if poem is in a language other than English, must have translation also recorded (this can be in someone else’s voice, but again no AI).
- Entries from anywhere in the world.
- No entry free.
- Email a short bio and your contact details along with the mp3 in your submissions.
- Send recording of your poem to: wandersubmissions@gmail.com
- Ensure there’s minimal background noise.
- Submissions of up to six minutes.
- Maximum of three poems.
- Poem can have been previously published, but not previously broadcast on Wander.
- Must be your own original, non-AI generated work.
- Shortlist announced in May.
- For broadcast on Wander podcast 2025.
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With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland for funding this submissions opportunity and their continuing support for Wander.
