Submission period for oxygen11: February 2026.
Submissions of poetry must be sent by post to:
Cheryl Howard
PO Box 614
WOODEND VIC 3442
Australia
A stamped self-addressed envelope must be included for return of response.
Nonfiction articles can be sent as attachments within one email to poetry.clh@gmail.com
Photos and art must be emailed as attachments in one email. High quality resolution of 300dpi minimum.
Send two, three or four pieces of work.
All items must be the original work of the submitter and not previously published, nor on offer elsewhere.
For poetry, name and address must be on each page.
Please do not include quotes in poems unless they are no longer under copyright protection.
Responses will be sent out in March.
The magazine will be issued late in April.
The Language of Snow
So many words for snow my tongue turns to ice
in the immigration queue. It is cold. I nurse the English primer rescued from my forgotten desk.
The book does not tell me: before snow disappears it turns to sleet. Slush mixed with mud is sludge,
a degree of difference only but still different. It is important to know.
Fresh snow is welcomed untrammelled by brutish feet picture perfect snow white
but take the snow on a journey mix it with muddy feet and it turns brown.
I feel the heat of questions I cannot answer, a snowdrift swept aside to the gutter brown sludge gathers it melts away.
I do not want to disappear.
Avril Bradley