Bayou Magazine

General Submission Information

Please submit via the Submittable link to the submitright:
  • We do not accept e-mail submissions.
  • We do not accept previously published work. This includes material that has appeared online in any form, including personal blogs.
  • We accept simultaneous submissions provided you promptly withdraw your work if it is accepted elsewhere.
  • All work should be in a 12 point standard font. Please include a cover page with title, author, and complete contact information.
  • We will only consider one submission per author at a time.
  • We review submissions from September 1- May 1, with a response time of 1 to 5 months.
  • If after 5 months you have not received a response from us, feel free to contact us by email at bayoumagazine@gmail.com, and we will be happy to check on the status of your submission.
  • We do not accept submissions from those who are current or former students or faculty of the University of New Orleans.

Fiction

Update: We are pleased to announce that Bayou Magazine will pay authors for all fiction manuscripts submitted and published after February 1, 2017. Payment for fiction is $50 for published manuscripts of 3000 words or more and $25 for those less than 3000 words.
We accept:
  • submissions of 7,500 words or less, double spaced, 12pt Times New Roman
  • flash fiction and short-shorts are welcome, but only 1 piece per submission
  • all types of fiction except gothic, horror, and juvenile fiction
  • We are unable to provide refunds for Submittable submissions. Please review your manuscript carefully before uploading.
If we reject a submission, we ask that you wait 3 months from the date of that rejection before submitting again. More frequent submissions will be declined.

Nonfiction

We will consider submissions of 7,500 words or less. We are looking for literary nonfiction, creative personal essays, literary journalism, environmental writing and travel writing. No scholarly articles, please.

Poetry

We will consider no more than 5 poems at a time. Please include all 5 poems in one submission.

Visual Art

Bayou Magazine accepts images of fine art in all media to feature on our cover, the trim size for which is 6″ w x 9″ h. Image Specifications: 300dpi and a minimum of 1800 pixels wide. Submit up to 5 .tiff or .jpg files that can be reproduced at 1,800 pixels wide. Submissions that do not meet the specifications will be rejected without review. Payment for accepted art is $50. As with our writing submissions, we do not accept art submissions from those who are current or former students or faculty of the University of New Orleans.

Submit by Mail:

We greatly prefer submissions via Submittable, but you may mail submissions to:
Bayou Magazine
c/o Submissions Manager
Department of English
University of New Orleans
2000 Lakeshore Drive
New Orleans, LA 70148
Manuscripts will not be returned and response times are much longer for paper submissions. We do not email results for paper submissions. Notification of results will be sent only if an SASE is included.

Publication Rights and Payment

After publication in Bayou Magazine, all rights revert to the author. Payment is two contributor’s copies unless otherwise specified by genre. All work published in Bayou Magazine is considered for Pushcart Prize nominations. All prose is sent annually to Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories for consideration.
We do not accept submissions from those who are current or former students or faculty of the University of New Orleans.

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