A pioneer in the field, Rabbit has celebrated the potential for poetry to explore and interrogate the boundaries of nonfiction writing. Rabbit encourages poets to openly engage with auto/biography, history, politics, economics, mathematics, cultural analysis, science, the environment, and all other aspects of real world experience, recollection and interpretation.
Across its 40-issue history, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry has gathered together and disseminated poems from across the globe that have addressed themes such as Science, Geography, Politics, (Auto)Biography, Belonging, Form, Indigenous, Reportage, Archive, Architecture, Extinction and many more.
Some of the contributors to the journal include Jordie Albiston, Natalie Harkin, Johanna Drucker, Dennis Cooley, Craig Santos Perez, Jaya Savige, Justin Clemens, Jennifer Compton, Jane Hirshfield, Kenneth Goldsmith, Stuart Cooke, Melody Paloma, Lisa Gorton, Duncan Hose, Michael Farrell, Petra White, Cassandra Atherton, Liam Ferney, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, Amy Brown, Alison Whittaker, Anna Jackson, Alex Skovron, Alvin Pang, joanne burns, Robert Sullivan, Ian McBryde, Jeanine Leane, Kate Middleton, Jill Jones, Bonny Cassidy, Patrick Jones, Eileen Myles, Ann Vickery, Lesley Wheeler, Ania Walwicz, Pierre Joris, Peter Boyle, Ken Bolton, Fiona Hile and Pam Brown.
Rabbit Poetry is now moving into a new phase of showcasing exciting new ‘nonfiction poetry’ via the Rabbit Annual.
Across its 40-issue history, Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry has gathered together and disseminated poems from across the globe that have addressed themes such as Science, Geography, Politics, (Auto)Biography, Belonging, Form, Indigenous, Reportage, Archive, Architecture, Extinction and many more. Rabbit Poetry is now moving into a new phase of showcasing exciting new ‘nonfiction poetry’ via the Rabbit Annual.
We are now open for submissions for this first ‘Annual’ of nonfiction poetry. We welcome poems that explore, interrogate and push the boundaries of nonfiction writing, and are interested in reading poetic engagements with auto/biography, documentary, history, politics, economics, mathematics, cultural analysis, science, the environment, and all other aspects of real-world experience, recollection and interpretation.
Your submission must include the following:
· 1-3 unpublished* poems (preferably in word doc, though pdf also acceptable)
· A short bio (50 words max.)
· A short answer to the following Rabbit prompt: Tell us about a nonfiction poem that you return to again and again and why
*We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know as soon as a submitted poem has been accepted elsewhere.
DEADLINE: 11:59pm, June 20, 2025
We are thrilled that our guest co-editors for this first Rabbit Annual are Mark Nowak (US) and Angela Costi (Australia).
Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and Creative Capital foundations. Nowak recently wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022). He is founding director of the Worker Writers School (https://www.instagram.com/workerwritersschool/).
Angela Costi is a poet and writer with a background in social justice, law and community arts. The author of six poetry collections, including Honey & Salt (Five Islands Press, shortlisted Mary Gilmore Prize 2008) and The Heart of the Advocate (Liquid Amber Press, 2025). Her chapbook Adversarial Practice (Cordite Poetry Review) was commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize. She won the University of Canberra’s Health Poetry Prize 2024. In 1995, she received a grant from the National Languages Board to study Ancient Greek drama in Greece. She is known as Αγγελική Κωστή among the Cypriot diaspora, her ancestry.