Present Tense Zine spans digital platforms, printed works, audio objects and other physical formats, allowing us to share the voices of poets across mediums in ways that honour their work and context.

PTZ is our monthly participatory publishing project, gathering poetic submissions in sonic and digital form. We welcome text-based artworks, “proper” poems, or those with few or no words. We are drawn to work that bears the levity and weight of its own imperative and disintegration.

We want to hear your words in your voice. To submit, please record your poem in a quiet distilled environment and submit it along with a text version.

Selected pieces will be release through a digital and audio compilation, with a printed annual edition of selected works.

We review the first 50 submissions each cycle.

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN > July 1-15