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  Full details  Please submit only once per submission period unless otherwise invited. We do not accept e-mail submissions; all work must be submitted through Submittable . Please send all work in one file. We aim to respond to your work within two months; our average response time is closer to one month. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published works. We do not accept any AI-assisted or AI-generated work. Poetry There are no format restrictions. Limit your submission to 5 poems totaling no more than 10 pages. Fiction Authors should limit submissions to no more than 20 pages  (5500 words). Flash and Micro Series Please send ONE piece of flash fiction or flash nonfiction (1200 words or less) or a connected series of THREE micros (250 to 400 words each). What happened to the nonfiction genre? If your nonfiction is less than 1200 words, submit to the flash...

 Full details  Brevity publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or fewer) essay form. We have featured work from Pulitzer prize winners, NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and Japan. We have also featured numerous previously-unpublished authors, and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career. Over the past year  Brevity  has averaged 10,000 unique visitors per month. Authors are paid a $45 honorarium for featured essays and craft essays.   If you would like to read an interview with our founder and editor-in-chief explaining his view of what makes a piece of flash nonfiction successful, you may do so here at River Teeth . Submissions should be formatted as seen here  (single space, no indentation, one extra space between paragraphs) unless alternate formatting is a specific design ...

 Full details  Submissions and pitches Before sharing your work with us, consider familiarizing yourself with what we’ve published recently . Please only submit work that has not been published in print or appeared in online publications previously in English. We happily accept simultaneous submissions and just ask that you promptly notify us via the messaging system in Submittable if some of your work is accepted elsewhere, or withdraw your submission if the whole of it has been accepted elsewhere. We support you on your journey! Fall Short Fiction Workshop: Open for Applications! Northwest Review is pleased to announce its first fiction workshop. Starting on Tuesday November 14 , accepted writers will meet in the Northwest Review editorial office in downtown Portland at 111 SW 5th Ave for a two hour fiction workshop led by editor in chief S. Tremaine Nelson. The Northwest Review fiction workshop will follow the Columbia University MFA Program model in which wri...

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  Full details  Short:  tell us a story in 3,000 words or less; we are interested in fiction, creative nonfiction, self-contained excerpts, and genre-bending forms. Flash:  a fiction, creative nonfiction, or genre-bending story under 500 words. Poetry:  share one or more poems, prose poems, or multimedia works for a combined count of 500 words or less. Six Words:  a story in six words; you may share up to five stories per submission, but only one will be chosen. Baring the Device:  essays for our Baring the Device column;  click here  to learn more. The Gravity of the Thing  publishes work on a rolling basis throughout its quarterly reading periods. A majority of submissions are read during the months of February, May, August, and November, so you can expect to hear back from us then—for updates, please  subscribe to our newsletter . We only accept previously unpublished work, and a...

Full details SmokeLong publishes flash narratives up to 1000 words. We do not consider poetry. Include a print-ready, third-person bio with your cover letter. We prefer a simple cover letter. Please include no identifying information on your story’s document. Guest Editors read blind and have no access to bios. Please send ONE previously unpublished piece at a time and wait until you hear our decision before sending another. Please allow us up to four weeks to inform you if we have accepted  your work for publication. You will usually hear from us much sooner. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please inform us immediately if your work has been accepted somewhere else for publication. We pay $50/story, upon publication in the quarterly issue. Payment will be issued via PayPal, and the writer may be responsible for any associated fees if applicable. If you choose to make a donation to SmokeLong using the tip jar feature, thank you so much! Your contribution...

Full details Hi. You’re here because you’re a funny person who wants to write satirical nonsense on a website that even search engine bots avoid. You will earn $2.50 USD per article you sell us because money is hard to come by nowadays and we’re generous. We want to harness the funniness within you and use it to create content. That’s capitalism, buster. Read on for guidelines and stuff. Guidelines Submit satirical articles that are between 25 to 300 words in length (or however many words it takes to get the joke(s) across!) PLEASE read the site to first to get a feel for what we do here. We don’t write short stories or rants, we write faux news articles! Again, we don’t publish poetry or short stories. No, seriously. You’re a very good traditional fiction writer, but if you could please read the site a little bit first (even just a teeny, tiny bit), that’d be great It can be about any topic you like but it does – at the very least – need to be somewhat funny ...

Full details each year we select the best of the on-line post to make a print and Kindle anthology.    What we want: We’re looking for thought-provoking and entertaining stories, though ones which might be a tad different from what you normally read in a woman’s magazine. They should be the sort of length that would make easy reading whilst you drink a cup of coffee, even if you linger a while, but without you needing to rent-a-table. So, no more than 3000 words. Shorter stories, flash fiction and drabbles are naturally very welcome. How to submit Send your submission gill@cafelit.co.uk . It should be in the body of the email. Please put “CafeLit Submission” in the subject line. What happens next We’ll read your story. If we like it and plan to publish it we’ll let you know and if we don't like it we'll let you know. If your story fits our imprint and is of publishable quality we will keep it in an archive. If you manage to place your story elsewhere, pleas...

Queer Issue (Fall 2020, #45) This is an open call for our queer issue, which will be published in fall 2020. We are seeking work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from writers who identify as queer, and book reviews of queer books. While we are interested in work that directly relates to gender and sexual identity, we are equally interested in work by queer writers that does not directly address queerness. Our interviews will also feature queer artists. Honoraria are $175 per prose piece, and $50 per poem. Fiction (Spring 2021, #46) Submit fiction pieces up to 5,000 words. Flash fiction welcome. No previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are okay. Honorarium is $175 per piece, regardless of length.  Nonfiction (Spring 2021, #46) Submit nonfiction pieces up to 5,000 words. Flash nonfiction welcome. No previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are okay. Honorarium is $175 per piece, regardless of length.  Poetry (Spring 2021, #4...

These guidelines were updated and page reorganized a bit on Dec. 10, 2018. Please read them carefully before submitting; there’s a lot covered here. Our guidelines were shorter at one time, but we try to address all of the questions ahead of time. We can’t wait to read your work! (Already read our new guidelines? Go to our Submittable page now. ) NOTE: If you’re not already on our mailing list, please consider subscribing so that you’ll always be up to date on submissions announcement including open reading periods, special calls, etc. Looking for a literary magazine that accepts personal essays? Hippocampus Magazine enthusiastically considers unsolicited, previously unpublished creative nonfiction submissions in the following categories: memoir excerpt – a self-contained portion (chapter or selection) of a larger, book-length work – 4,000 words max personal essay – a short narrative reflecting on a particular life experience or observation – 4,000 words max fla...