Submission Guidelines:

• You can submit your poems to editors@wordsaladpoetrymagazine.com



• When submitting poetry for publication, via email, please use for the subject of the email, "Word Salad Poetry Submissions."



• Please, if you attach your poems in an email, please put all poems and cover letter into one file.  We would prefer that to getting 3, 4 and 5 different files attache for each submission.  Just put all 3 to 6 poems in one file. 



• You can upload a file in rich text format (RTF), PDF or Open Office format ODT - preferably rich text format.   Note, most word processors, such as MS Word will let you save your file as rich text format, rtf.  An rtf (rich text format) file can be read by any word processor and that's why we prefer this most!



• We will accept from 3 to 6 submissions at any one time. You may submit further poems again in 30 days.




• We must have a valid email address and name/pen name or we cannot use your poetry submission(s).



• Please also read the poems written by the staff and the other poems posted here on this site to get an idea as to the kind of poems we publish.
• We would ask that you include your name in the file name if you are submitting your poems as an attachment and it is preferable to remove spaces in the file name.   So, for example, if I was submitting a set of poems, I'd name the file BruceWhealtonPoetrySubmissionWordSalad.rtf or I  could use BruceWhealtonSubmission.rtf



• We won't be very, very picky, if you don't follow each and every guideline to the letter.  The prior bullet point is just a suggestion that makes it easier for me to keep track of submissions and who submitted what.

About Bruce Whealton

Bruce Whealton attended the Georgia Institute of Technology and received his Bachelors Degree in Electrical/computer Engineering in 1989. Bruce went on to receive his Masters in Social Work from the University of South Carolina in 1996.

Bruce Whealton began to think of himself as a poet beginning back in 1992, when he shared his poetry at a poetry reading for the first time.  This was at the Coastline Convention Center overlooking the Cape Fear River, in Wilmington, NC.  He began Word Salad as an online poetry magazine in 1995.

Bruce has combined his interest in technical matters with his creativity as expressed in efforts such as this poetry magazine, his own poetry, and as a Web Developer and Web Designer.  Bruce Whealton is the owner of Future Wave Designs a successful web development, web design and consulting company in Carrboro, North Carolina, near Chapel Hill, NC in the Triangle Area of North Carolina - the Research Triangle area.

Recently, Bruce collaborated with Scott Urban on an ebook collection of poems entitled "Puncture Wounds," focusing on vampires and vampirism.  Details can be found on this site by clicking on the menu option on the left for "Puncture Wounds."  

Bruce also has seen his poems published in