If you’re drawn to poetry that risks something—work that’s strange, gorgeous, and willing to push back against the systems we live in—South Broadway Press is a space you’ll want to know. Based in Denver, the press has grown over the last eight years from local events into a vibrant home for poets who write toward connection, disruption, and imaginative possibility. Editor-in-Chief Brice Maiurro shares how the press evolved, what they’re seeking now, and why love, dissent, and “good trouble” remain at the center of their mission.

South Broadway Press is currently open for submissions to their 2026 Autumn Online Edition, accepting poetry with no fee, and a deadline of August 27, 2026. Submissions are via Google Form, and simultaneous submissions are welcome. Average response time is about two months.

Full interview below, along with all submission details for poets ready to send their weird, gorgeous, revolutionary work.

HOPKINSON: Tell me a little bit about South Broadway Press. 

MAIURRO: South Broadway Press is a poetry press based in Denver, Colorado. Over the last eight years, we’ve grown very organically from hosting local events into now having published hundreds of poets online and through our print single-author collections and anthologies. We are interested in weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry.

Our mission is to provide a platform through poetry, writing, and the arts for ideas that offer alternatives to the harmful systems and ideologies that we historically have and continue to live among. We are interested in work that points us towards symbiosis with not just other humans, but with all beings in this moment, all beings past, and those future beings that will be impacted by the choices we collectively make today. We focus our attention on love as a guiding force. Not a love that only reactively supports those who have been afflicted by oppression, but a love that is willing to disrupt, disobey, and proactively prevent and redirect the potential forthcoming affliction around us. A love that is resolute in its boundaries for itself and others. A love that takes the form of dissent, resistance, and in the words of John Lewis, a love that is willing to “get into good trouble”.

HOPKINSON: How/why was South Broadway Press originally started? 

MAIURRO: South Broadway Press was originally South Broadway Ghost Society, a journal that took anonymous submissions. That was a wonderful chapter, but we quickly learned that something is lost when you separate the body and that part of the identity from the poet themselves, so we shifted to being more of a traditional journal.

HOPKINSON: Who is your target reader audience? 

MAIURRO: We love that our contributors also often become our audience. We publish poetry knowing those poets who’ve loved and supported our work over the years are most likely to read. We also publish a lot of work in hopes of bringing in someone who hasn’t had poetry as a major part of their life. Finally, we are interested in connecting with readers who understand what Palestinean American writer Noor Hindi meant when she said “Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying”. People who want brave poems that look at the ugly truths of what is happening in our world.

HOPKINSON: What type of work are you looking for in submissions? 

MAIURRO: We like what we like, but we’ve found that the aforementioned “weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry” has been a good compass for poets submitting to us. We are not opposed to any style. We’ve published formal poetry and free verse. We like work that takes unexpected turns. We like reading something and feeling like it’s the first time we thought about something in that way.

HOPKINSON: What do you wish you’d see submitted, but rarely comes in? 

MAIURRO: Super solid, super short poems, maybe 5-15 lines. We seem to get a lot of one-pagers, which is great, but we’d love to publish some concise gems.

HOPKINSON: What are some of your favorite lit mags/journals?

MAIURRO: Oh, wonderful question. We love Beyond The Veil Press for the work with queer authors and disability justice. We love Twenty Bellows as our fellow Colorado indie press. They host an incredible conference each fall, and publish gorgeous and intentional anthologies. Spit Poet Zine does amazing work within the inspiring ethos of zines. They stay true to the underground and centering what matters the most.

HOPKINSON: What is your favorite part of being on staff with the South Broadway Press?

MAIURRO: As the Founding Editor and Editor-In-Chief, I would say watching how this little seed has blossomed over the last eight years. We have an incredible team of editors in place whose diverse backgrounds ranging from Poet Laureates to LCSW therapists bring so much to the table. I cannot appreciate enough having the right people in place who care, who communicate, and who have become such dear friends.

HOPKINSON: Where can we send submissions? 

MAIURRO: The evergreen answer is our submissions page at http://www.southbroadwaypress.org will always have our submission details. For our current call, you can visit this link.

HOPKINSON: If someone has a question, how can they contact you? 

MAIURRO: We have a contact page on our site with details there!

HOPKINSON: Is there anything exciting coming up you’d like to mention? 

MAIURRO: I would love to encourage folks to join our monthly newsletter! We will always keep you up to date with calls for submissions, future events, and other press news there!

Click here to read submission guidelines.

• SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 27, 2026
• THEME(S): No theme. We love weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry.
• FORMAT: Online
• SUBMISSION FEE: None
• PAYMENT: No payment
• ISSUE FREQUENCY: We do an autumn edition online every year.
• AVERAGE RESPONSE TIME: 2 months
• SUBMISSION METHOD: Google Form
• SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Yes
• FORMS: Poetry
• LISTINGS: Chill Subs, CLMP
• SOCIAL MEDIA: Bluesky, Instagram, Substack

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