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Titles and Publication Schedule

July 2001, #1, joanne burns, people like that
August 2001, #2, Peter Boyle, November in Madrid
Septmber 2001, #3, Lauren Williams, Eloquent
October 2001, #4, Mal Morgan, Ma Non Troppo
November 2001, #5, Andy Kissane, Glass Dreams
December 2001, #6, Judith Beveridge, How To Love Bats
February 2002, #7, Jean Kent, The Spaghetti Maker
March 2002, #8, Roland Leach, Darwin’s Pistols
April 2002, #9, Judy Johnson, Light and Skin
May 2002, #10, Geoff Page, My Mother’s God
June 2002, #11, Jan Owen, Eating Durian
July 2002, #12, Michael Sharkey, History
August 2002, #13, Michelle Taylor, Renovating
September 2002, #14, Peter Goldsworthy, Tattered Joys
October 2002, #15, Jordie Albiston, My Secret Life
November 2002, #16, Alex Skovron, Chess
December 2002, #17, M. T. C. Cronin, The Confetti Stone
February 2003, #18, Andrew Burke, Knock On Wood
March 2003, #19, Rhyll McMaster, The Elegant Rabbit
April 2003, #20, Geoffrey Lehmann, Baking at Night
May 2003, #21, Bronwyn Lea, The Wooden Cat
June 2003, #22, Steve Evans, Useful Translations
July 2003, #23, Caroline Caddy, God’s Fish
August 2003, #24, Ian McBryde, Ambulance
September 2003, #25, Janice Bostok, First Light
October 2003, #26, Peter Bakowski, Some Beliefs of Mine
November 2003, #27, Jennifer Compton, Brick
December 2003, #28, Andrew Lansdown, Communion
February 2004, #28, J. S. Harry, If...and the Moveable Ground
March 2004, #30, Thomas Shapcott, Music Circus
April 2004, #31, Kathryn Lomer, Ifs & Ands
May 2004, #32, Alan Gould, Tightrope Walker
June 2004, #33, Rosemary Dobson, Folding the Sheets
July 2004, #34, John West, Modest Lives
August 2004, #35, Rebecca Edwards, Draw a Lion
September 2004, #36, Craig Powell, The Poem as a Place
October 2004, #37, Jennifer Harrison, Changzhuo’s Bees
November 2004, #38, Kevin Hart, The Last Day
December 2004, #39, Jill Jones, Where the Sea Burns
February 2005, #40, Robert Bolton, Three Laws of Succession
March 2005, #41, Louise Oxley, Sitting with Cézanne
April 2005, #42, Kevin Gillam, shouting, drowning
May 2005, #43, Dorothy Porter, Little Hoodlum
June 2005, #44, Sam Wagan Watson, three-legged dogs
July 2005, #45, Heather Cam, Border Crossing
August 2005, #46, David Rowbotham, The Brown Island
September 2005, #47, Adrienne Eberhard, Phosphorescence
October 2005, #48, Peter Porter, In Enkidu’s Nose
November 2005, #49, Vera Newsom, A Psalm of Rejoicing
December 2005, #50, Kevin Murray, The Blackbird Crisis
February 2006, #51, Gina Mercer, Night Breathing
March 2006, #52, David Musgrave, Watermark
April 2006, #53, Barbara Temperton, At Cavesham
May 2006, #54, Kevin Brophy, Forty years on a bicycle
June 2006, #55, Deb Westbury, Reading the Signs
July 2006, #56, Brook Emery, At a Slight Angle
August 2006, #57, Fay Zwicky, Afloat
September 2006, #58, Andrew Taylor, Regret About the Wolves
October 2006, #59, Cate Kennedy, Crucible
November 2006, #60, Mike Ladd, Shacklife
December 2006, #61, Susan Kruss, Monet’s Garden
February 2007, #62, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Thing Itself
March 2007, #63, Robyn Rowland, This Road
April 2007, #64, Philip Salom, The Family Fig Trees
May 2007, #65, Anna Kerdijk-Nicholson, What was lost
June 2007, #66, Michael Sariban, The Riddle of Perfection
July 2007, #67, Anne Edgeworth, Purdie's Meditation
August 2007, #68, David Malouf, Guide to the Perplexed
Sepember 2007, #69, Judith Rodriguez, Manatee
October 2007, #70, Bruce Beaver, The Flautist in the Laundry
November 2007, #71, Lee Knowles, Lucretia
December 2007, #72, Richard Deutsch, Floating the Woman
February 2008, #73, Jane Williams, Some Towns
March 2008, #74, Francis Webb, Legionary Ants
April 2008, #75, Catherine Bateson, The Horses
May 2008, #76, Norman Talbot, Asks the Storyteller
June 2008, #77, Diane Fahey, Winter Solstice
July 2008, #78,Martin Langford, The Mirror of the Ear
August 2008,#79, Sarah Day, Sky Writing
September 2008, #80, Srephen Lawrence, The Culture of Trains
October 2008, #81, Judith Bishop, Alice Missing in Wonderland
November 2008, #82, Stephen Edgar, The Secret Life of Books
December 2008, #83, Jane Gibian, small adjustments
February 2009, #84, Graham Catt, The Inverted World
March 2009, #85, Judith Wright, Grace
April 2009, #86, Andrew Sant, Days of Incompletion
May 2009, #87, Margaret Bradstock, How Like the Past
June 2009, #88, John Watson, River Syllabics
July 2009, #89, Nicolette Stasko, A Single Ascension
August 2009, #90, Aidan Coleman, Sun in Winter
September 2009, #91, Jeri Kroll, Felis domestica
October 2009, #92, Garth Madsen, Adventure Holiday... 
November 2009, #93, Carol Jenkins, Night Croquet
December 2009, #94, Evan Jones, The Politic Body
February 2009, #95, Antigone Kefala, Wayfarers
March 2009, #96, Roland Robinson, Would I Might Find My Country
April 2009, #97, TBD
May 2009, #98,Gary Catalano, The King of Clarity

... and many more.

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Contributors’ guidelines are below. An issue listed as 'TBD' isn’t necessarily vacant — we may well be negotiating with someone. And we do reserve the right to juggle the schedule for upcoming months as circumstances dictate. Please contact us if you’d like to be considered for an upcoming issue. As always, it's a good idea to query before submitting.

Obviously, eleven poets a year isn’t enough. Still, we’re always willing to look at new material. If you think your poetry might be suitable and you’re not keen to wait in line, we also have a successful line of chapbooks.  Click here to see our submission and publication guidelines.

Wagtail is a magazine of contemporary poetry, published eleven times per year. Each issue is sixteen pages long, and is intended to provide readers with a solid introduction to the best work a single poet. Most (but not necessarily all) of the content has been previously published. Therefore, potential contributors should have a substantial body of work already in the literature. It is not strictly necessary to have published your work in book form, but it helps. Another objective of the magazine is to encourage sale of poetry books by familiarising readers with the best, most accessible Australian poetry. Each contributor’s books, chapbooks, and pamphlets are listed on the back cover, along with information on price and availability. A sample of contract is available for inspection below. Accessibility is important; Wagtail aims to attract intelligent readers who are not necessarily familiar with contemporary poetics. The magazine is also used in schools, and selections will be made with that important market in mind. As always, the best way to find out what sort of material Wagtail publishes is to subscribe to the magazine. Single copies are available for just $4 each, postage and GST included.

Contributors are paid a 15% royalty on every copy sold. Wagtail requires only One-Time Non-Exclusive Serial Print Rights; these rights are retained for a minimum of thirty-six months after first publication. The magazine is produced using print-on-demand technology, and back issues need to remain available so that late subscribers can order issues they’ve missed and other markets can access the backlist. Only the collection used by Wagtail is copyright: all other rights remain with the author, including but not limited to broadcast, newspaper, anthology, book, and electronic rights, and the right to publish individual works in other print serials.

In order to maintain a good gender and geographic balance, issues of Wagtail may be organised twelve months or more before publication. Please do not send unsolicited manuscripts to Picaro Press. If you would like to be considered for a future issue, post us a short letter describing where samples of your work can be found (serials, internet, library, etc).  Poets are encouraged to send books or chapbooks for consideration, especially of they are out of print or unlikely to be available from libraries.  If selected for further consideration, you will be contacted, possibly invited to submit additional material, and consulted about the selections. Please include an SSAE with all correspondence. And thanks in advance for your support!

This contract is made between

The Author: (Name)                                                   and                   The Publisher: Picaro Press
                    (address)                                                                          PO Box 853, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282

hereinafter referred to as the Author and the Publisher respectively.

1. The Author grants permission to the Publisher to use the following works in the magazine Wagtail, a serial publication bearing the ISSN 1444-8424:

[Included poems listed here]

2. The Author assigns to the Publisher One-time Non-exclusive Serial Print Rights for publication of the above-listed works in a single issue of the magazine Wagtail. All other rights remain with the Author, including but not limited to broadcast, newspaper, anthology, book, and electronic rights, and the right to publish individual works in other print serials and on the internet. Copyright to the collection remains with the Publisher.

3. For the rights granted to the Publisher above, the Author will receive a royalty of 15% on every copy sold, except as described below. The Publisher’s recommended retail selling price is presently between $2 and $3 per copy depending on the type of sale. The Publisher reserves the right to increase or decrease the recommended retail price from time to time at the Publisher’s sole discretion. The Author’s royalties will be paid annually on or about the end of the fiscal year except that, should the total amount owing to the Author at the end of any tax year be less than $20, payment may be held over until the end of the next fiscal year, or until requested in writing by the author.

4. The Publisher will supply to the Author five free copies of that issue of the magazine in which the Author’s works appear. The Author may purchase unlimited copies at $2.40 each for resale or any other use at the Author's discretion. No royalties will be paid on copies purchased by the Author at a discounted price. The price of copies sold to the author shall not increase for at least 12 months from the date on which this agreement is signed, after which period it may be changed at the Publisher's sole discretion.

5. The Author warrants to the Publisher that the above-listed works are each an original work, that the Author is the sole proprietor of each work, that none of the above-listed works infringe on any existing copyright, and that they contain nothing which, to the knowledge of the Author, is libellous or defamatory.

6. The Publisher will carry out such steps and make such imprints as are required to protect the Author’s copyright, including the notice specified in the Universal Copyright Convention.

7. The Publisher will provide proofs of that issue of Wagtail magazine containing the Author’s work to the Author prior to publication, and the Author will correct and return the proofs within 30 days. No changes to any work will be made without the Author’s consent.

8. The Publisher will retain the right to publish that issue of Wagtail magazine in which the Author’s work appears for a period of thirty-six months from the date of first publication. Thereafter the Author may unilaterally terminate this agreement by written application to the Publisher asking that this Agreement be terminated. If at that time the Publisher has less than fifty copies in stock, the Publisher will retain the right to sell all remaining copies at the Publisher’s sole discretion.

9. This agreement will automatically terminate in the event that a) any monies due under this Agreement to the Author are not paid by the Publisher within sixty days of a written demand for payment from the Author, or b) the Publisher fails to publish the Author's works in an issue of Wagtail magazine within 18 months of the date upon which this agreement is signed.

10. The Publisher will retain the right to use extracts from the Author’s works, not to exceed ‘fair dealing’ as defined in the Copyright Act, for the purpose of promoting Wagtail magazine and Picaro Press.

11. The Author and Publisher agree that the law applicable to this Agreement will be the law in force in New South Wales as at the date on which this Agreement is signed.

12. This Agreement constitutes the whole and complete understanding between the Author and the Publisher, and no waiver or modification of any provisions will be valid unless made in writing and signed by both the Author and the Publisher.

The parties acknowledge that they each have read and understood this contract before execution.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the hands of the said parties:

For the Publisher Picaro Press:

Signature: _______________________ Date: _____________
                Rob Riel

For the Author:

Signature: _______________________ Date: _____________
                (Author)