Many thanks to Geoffrey Philp for spreading the word: midnight on February 12, 2017, is the deadline for the Elbow Room Competition sponsored by Commonwealth Writers:

Description: Elbow Room is open to submissions of visual art, poetry, short stories and music. Submissions will be considered for publication in 2017. The submissions deadline is Midnight GMT February 12th 2017.

Elbow Room does not have any specific theme for submissions.

Please email all submissions and any questions to: elbowroomsubmissions@gmail.com. (Please remember that you are submitting your work to real people, it makes a huge difference receiving politely worded submissions!)

All submissions need to include brief artist’s bio.

Please include your name on all work.

Please send your work as an attachment.

If sending multiple files we have found WeTransfer works best: www.wetransfer.com.

Please only send .doc, .docx, .jpeg or .tiff files.

For more details of eligibility and guidelines on how to submit, follow this link.

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