Mud Room Mag

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General Guidelines

We are pleased to announce that beginning with our Spring issue, all contributors will be paid 15 dollars! Our submission fee policy is as follows:

• Standard Submissions are free. We try to respond to all free submissions within thirty days. Feel free to query after two months.

• Expedited Submissions are $3. We guarantee a response within two weeks for these submissions.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through Submittable. We will not consider work with sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or ableist content. Your name should appear on you cover letter but not in the submission.

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POETRY GUIDELINES

MudRoom publishes poetry of all types. You can email poetry submissions to mud.room.submissions@gmail.com.

To submit, please send 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX .ODT or PDF file with one poem per page (eight pages maximum).

Indicate POETRY SUBMISSION in your subject line. Submissions without "Poetry Submission" in the subject line will be deleted. You may also include a brief cover letter/third-person bio in the body of your email.

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PROSE gUIDELINES

Mudroom publishes fiction, essays, and essays in translation. You can email prose submissions to mud.room.submissions@gmail.com.

To submit, please send a previously unpublished work no longer than 6,000 words in double spaced 12-point Times New Roman font. All works should be attached in a single .DOC/.DOCX .ODT or PDF file

Please indicate PROSE SUBMISSION in your subject line. Submissions without "Prose Submission" in the subject line will be deleted. You may also include a brief cover letter/third-person bio in the body of your email.

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Expedited Submissions

For expedited submissions, please support us on kofi, and then in the subject line of your submission, add the word EXPEDITED. For poetry submissions, this would look like POETRY SUBMISSION EXPEDITED, and for prose submissions would appear as PROSE SUBMISSION EXPEDITED. All donations go toward paying our contributors.

Please feel free to email us at mud.room.mag@gmail.com if you have any questions.

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Rights

We require First North American Serial Rights.  Following publication, all rights revert to the author, but we ask that MudRoom is credited in subsequent reprints.  In addition, we reserve the right to edit submissions in accordance with the rules of our style guide.