Call for Submissions: Projected Letters

Submissions accepted year-round.

Projected Letters is a literary magazine publishing content from a variety of genres and countries. We are looking for new short stories, poetry, essays, and nonfiction pieces of any genre. Please check out our site and submit your work - we respond to every email we get. 

Call for Submissions: The First Line

Deadline: August 1, 2018

The first line for the fall issue is: “The window was open just enough to let in the cool night air.”

Submissions are due August 1, 2018.

Stories and poems should be between 300 and 5,000 words. We pay between $25 and $50 for fiction, $10 for poetry, and $25 for essays.

See our website for more information.

Call for Nonfiction Submissions: The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review

The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review welcomes nonfiction submissions! We are open to a variety of subjects, including the following: thoughts about and experiences with current politics, in the US or beyond; cultural critiques; feminist critiques; science writing; medical writing; nature writing; interviews; literary journalism; essays; experimental nonfiction; etc. Please tell us your story. It's important to us that we share a story that needs to be read.

We're interested in submissions from a multitude of voices on a multitude of subjects. Our world is vast and varied, and we want our stories to reflect that world. Please share your humor, intellect, and critical and moving thoughts about the world and humanity with Eckleburg.

Word count: < 8,000

Payment: none
Publicity through social media: yes

Submit to us here.
Please make sure that you include your contact information in the document you submit to us.

We look forward to reading your nonfiction submissions!

********
Ms. Vipra Ghimire
Nonfiction Editor

The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review 

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Call for Submissions: Rune Bear Weekly

Rune Bear Weekly is looking for 300-Word Submissions

Rune Bear is a new digital literary magazine devoted to the Strange, Surreal, Supernatural, and Speculative.

We are looking for stories in concentrate, although with a little pulp, too. 300 words or less.

Unfortunately we do not pay our authors, but we don't steal their money, either. No submission fees! Pieces are published Thursdays for [insert arbitrary reason involving Thor].

Simply type up your piece and send it to:

runebearmagATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Your subject line should be the word: “WEEKLY.” Include a short bio in third person (unfortunately, we cannot post links in the bio). Make sure you attach your story as a .doc or .docx. No simultaneous submissions.

We hold non-exclusive rights to publication, but please do not publish the piece elsewhere for six months. Advertise your publication on your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, parent’s fridge, etc.

More at our website.

Writing Competition: Booth's Summer Pop-Up Contest

Booth Prize

All creative nonfiction submissions considered for Booth's Summer Pop-Up Contest. First place prize is $750 plus publication in Booth. 2nd place is $250 plus publication.

Deadline extended to July 15. Final judge is Brian Oliu.

Find full submission guidelines here.

Entry fee is $15 and includes a one-year subscription to Booth, Butler University's graduate writing program literary journal.

Contest winner announced in August.

Writing Competition: Diode Editions Chapbook Contest

Diode Editions Chapbook Contest

• Open to all poets over the age of 18 who write in English.

• Length: 22–38 pages (front matter is not included in page count).

• We will consider translations, and we welcome collaborations.

• Entries will be accepted between April 15 and August 15, 2019

•  Entry Fee: $15.00 

A winner will be announced by August 30, 2018 (We may publish more than one book) 

The winning book(s) will be published by March 1, 2019, and will be launched at the 2019 AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon

Winners will receive $250.00, 25 author copies, and select poems from the book will appear in Diode Poetry Journal. If the winner(s) can attend AWP, they will have an opportunity to participate in an off-site reading, and also in signing sessions at the Diode Editions booth.

For complete guidelines, go here. 

Call for Submissions and Writing Competition: Sequestrum

Sequestrum is open for submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry until 7/15. For complete guidelines, go here.

Our New Writer Awards are also open for emerging voices.

About Sequestrum:

We average 2,500+ readers a month, keep our archives open at pay-what-you-can subscriptions, are a paying market, and pair all our publications with stunning visual arts created by outside artists or our staff. Our contributors range from award-winning novelists and poets (with other works featured in publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Glimmer Train, The Kenyon Review, many other university periodicals, and Best American Anthologies) to emerging voices and first-time writers. 

We're proud of our little plot on the literary landscape and the writers and artists we share it with. Come see why.

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Call for Submissions: Fifth Wednesday Journal

A special challenge to American writers Not of Mexican-heritage

Write an essay in response to the following question:

If you were forced to flee your country (the United States) for any reason, including the safety and well being of yourself and members of your family, where would you go? In which country would you seek refuge and/or asylum? Please consider what you would be leaving behind. (relatives, friends, job, language, culture, religion, home and community, etc.) What challenges would you face, depending on your destination; how might you go about dealing with difficulties of integration into the new environment?

We will publish the best essays in the fall issue of Fifth Wednesday Journal.

Deadline: August 15, 2018

Submit your work here.

Thanks so much,
Gro Flatebo

Writing Competition: Howling Bird Press

Howling Bird Press invites submissions to its 2019 book prize in fiction. The press welcomes novel and short story manuscripts from established and emerging authors. The competition is open to all writers in English living in the U.S., whether published or unpublished.

 

The author of the winning manuscript receives a $1,000 cash award, book publication, and national distribution. 

 

Manuscripts should be submitted online only, accompanied by a $25 entry fee. Multiple and simultaneous submissions are allowed.

 

The deadline is July 31, 2018.

 

Please read full guidelines and submit here.

Writing Competition on Theme of Recovery: Memoir Magazine

Memoir Magazine RECOVERY Essay Contest

Deadline: June 30, 2018. Now accepting nonfiction submissions of 3,000 words or less on the theme of Recovery.

All kinds of addiction and trauma require recovery. For example, one might seek assistance to recover from alcohol, sex addiction or PTSD.

Tell us your healing story.

$250 1st prize, $150 2nd Prize $100 3rd Prize and all submissions considered for publication.

$12 reading fee. Open to all writers. Emerging writers and underrepresented voices are encouraged to submit!

COMPLETE GUIDELINES:

• Submissions are now open until midnight on June 30, 2018

• 100 word min. 3000 word max

• NonFiction only.

• Open to all writers. Emerging writers and underrepresented voices are encouraged to submit!

• $12 to enter

• Previously published work is welcome!

• One story per submission

• Multiple and simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us if your story is accepted elsewhere

• International submissions welcome

• All contest entries are automatically submitted for standard nonfiction publication with editors of Memoir Magazine

Writing Competition: Big Muddy's Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest

Big Muddy's Wilda Hearne Flash Fiction Contest

Deadline: October 1, annually.

Reading Fee: $15 (Through our Submittable page. Please contact us at:

upressATsemoDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

to make alternate arrangements).

Award: $500 and publication in an issue of Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. Manuscripts submitted to the contest will be read and judged anonymously.

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions must not be previously published.

• Submit a maximum of 500 words, double-spaced.

• Your name and contact information must not appear anywhere else on the manuscript.

• Failure to follow these guidelines may disqualify entry.

• Submit through our Submittable page!

Chapbook Competition: Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition

Fool For Poetry Chapbook Competition

Deadline: June 30, 2018

Win €1000, publication, 50 copies of your chapbook, accommodation with full meals and a reading spot at the Cork International Poetry Festival, Ireland. Two chapbooks will be published and made available globally through Amazon outlets. At least one must be written by a debutant.

Previous winners have progressed to be selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and Saboteur Best Poetry Pamphlet Prize.

There is an entrance fee of €25 for each manuscript. Entrants may enter more than one manuscript. 

Full details here.

Call for Submissions: Zizzle

Submissions accepted year-round.

Zizzle is a new international literary magazine for young readers (age 9 to 14). For our inaugural online issue, we are looking for literary fiction that will surprise, move, and amuse young imaginative minds. We like stories that dive deep into meaning and resist banality.

Word Limit: 500 - 1,200.

Payment: $100 for flash fiction.

Submission: Free. 

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Call for Submissions: The Flexible Persona

Deadline: Rolling

The Flexible Persona, a literary magazine based in Troy, NY, seeks fiction and poetry for its Fall 2018 print issue (Vol. 03 No. 02) and online. We pay for both print and online publication. We publish writers from around the English-speaking world.

Please visit the site to read current and past pieces or to order an issue. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. 

Call for Submission: Fiction Southeast

Submissions accepted year-round.

Fiction Southeast seeks articles about writing, interviews, and essays from MFA students as well as emerging and established writers. 

More information on our website. 

Fellowship: 8th Annual Poets on the Coast

Fellowship Application Open for Poets on the Coast: Weekend Writing Retreat for Women

The 8th Annual Poets on the Coast: Weekend Writing Retreat for Women will take place September 7th - 9th in La Conner, Washington 90 minutes outside of Seattle.

One full fellowship is available for the weekend which includes classes with Kelli Russell Agodon, Claudia Castro Luna, and Susan Rich. 

Send three poems and a brief statement on why Poets on the Coast? Why Now?

For complete details go to the Poets on the Coast website.

Deadline: July 6, 2018

Writing Competitions: Gulf Coast

Announcing our summer contests: Submit your best short prose and translations.

Submissions are now open for the 2018 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose and the Gulf Coast Prize in Translation! Each entry comes with a year-long subscription to Gulf Coast and a chance to win $1,000.

This year's judges are Laura van den Berg (Barthelme) and Ilya Kaminsky (Translation). Check out our Submittable page for full guidelines.

Entry Fee: $18.00

Deadline: September 15, 2018 

Attention Art Writers: Don't miss your chance to enter the Second Annual Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing. The contest awards $3,000 and publication in Gulf Coast to the winner. Two runners up will receive $1,000 each. The contest will open soon, so please keep an eye on our website for judging and submission details. 

Call for Submissions: Angry Old Man Magazine

Deadline: June 29, 2018
Angry Old Man Magazine seeks "visual art" submissions for Issue #4. AOM is an experimental mag showcasing experimental work. In this issue, vispo (visual poetry) will be a major component of AOM. Work that combines visual/textual elements will be considered first.

Writing Competition: Iron Horse Literary Review PhotoFinish

The IHLR PhotoFinish

Looking for a place to submit work over the summer?
Participate in the Iron Horse PhotoFinish: Take a look at our annual photo prompt, and write a piece of flash in response: 500 words of prose or 15 lines of poetry. For more information or to read our past PhotoFinish issues, visit our website. 

Submit via Submittable.
 
Fee: $5.

Deadline: July 2.

Winner receives $250 and is published, along with nine finalists, in our annual PhotoFinish e-issue, released in full-color at midnight on New Year's Eve.

Call for Submissions: Murr-ma

Murr-ma is seeking your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visuals, and audiovisuals around the theme of “Echoes,” for its premiere issue.

The deadline is June 22.

Please visit the website for specific submission guidelines.

Murr-ma is an interdisciplinary online journal for creative thinkers. We aim to bring together the work of writers, artists, and other creators whose work hinges on the intersection between creative and theoretical thought and practice. We’re highly interested in discovering new writers.

Fiction Competition: Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine

Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine

No entry fee. First place story $100. 2nd-6th $20.

For theme and contest guidelines visit our website.

Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine publishes 120-200 poems and short prose pieces annually.

We judge each piece on its merit rather than author biographical information

Deadline: June 16, 2018

Writing Residency: Sundress Academy for the Arts

Sundress Academy for the Arts Open for Summer/Fall Residencies

The Sundress Academy for the Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is now accepting applications for short-term writers residencies during the fall residency period for our Writers Coop. These residencies are designed to give writers and artists time and space to complete their creative projects in a quiet and productive environment.

Open weeks for the summer and fall include June 18-24; July 30-August 5; August 6-12; August 27 - September 2; September 3 - 9; September 24 - 30; Oct 1 - 7; October 29 - November 4; November 19 - 25; November 26 - December 2; December 3 - 9; December 10 - 16; December 17 - 23; and December 24 – 30.

SAFTA is located on a working farm that rests on a 45-acre wooded plot in a Tennessee "holler" perfect for hiking, camping, and nature walks. Located less than a half-hour from downtown Knoxville, an exciting and creative city of 200,00 in the foothill of the Great Smoky Mountains, SAFTA is an ideal location for those looking for a rural get-away with access to urban amenities.

The SAFTA Writers Coop is a 10x10' dry cabin approximately a fourth of a mile from the SAFTA farmhouse. This tiny house is furnished with a twin bed, a desk, a wood-burning stove, a deck that looks over the pasture and pond, as well as a personal detached outhouse. While the cabin has neither electricity nor running water, residents will have full access to the amenities at farmhouse as well as solitude from other residents to write in the rolling hills of East Tennessee.

Each residency costs $150/week and includes your own private dry cabin as well as 24-hour access to the farmhouse amenities.

Applications for this residency are free and rolling. Apply today to get preferred dates.

Find out more at our website.

Writing Competition: Adrift Short Story Competition

Driftwood Press is excited to announce open submissions for the Adrift Short Story Competition! We are looking for short stories that keep us up at night with their well-crafted sentences and thoughtfully constructed plots and characters. David Jauss (Black Maps, Glossolalia, former editor of Crazyhorse) joins us as this year’s guest judge.

Visit our website for complete guidelines.

Submission Period - May 15 - July 15 

Guidelines – 6K word limit

Awards - $300, publication, interview, 10 author copies 

Entry Fee: $10.00

Call for Submissions on Theme of Food: Crab Orchard Review Online

Submissions for our next special issue are open now through July 30! Crab Orchard Review Online 

 

Deadline: July 30, 2018 (or if we receive 5,000 submissions) Special Issue: A World of Flavors: Writers on Food

 

Knock us out with your writing about any of the fantastic (or awful) flavors that a world full of food contains. Let us taste with you the love, jealousy, anguish, ecstasy, and other things that can be communicated by food. Surprise and delight us!

Submit here.

Writing Competition on the Theme of Sex: Creative Nonfiction Magazine

Let's Talk About Sex- Creative Nonfiction call for submission

Submit here.

Deadline: July 16, 2018

For the spring 2019 issue of Creative Nonfiction magazine, we’re looking for true stories about doing it. Whether you’re straight, gay, or other; alone, in a couple, or in a crowd; doing it for the first time or the last, or not doing it at all, we want to hear your story.

As always, we’re interested in stories that are more than mere anecdotes, and we love work that incorporates an element of research and/or makes a connection to a larger story or theme. We welcome personal stories as well as profiles, and above all, we are looking for narratives—true stories, rich with scene, character, detail, and a distinctive voice—that offer a fresh interpretation or unique insight into the theme.

Please note: for this issue, we are interested primarily (and perhaps even exclusively) in stories of consensual and/or victimless sex. Also note, we are not seeking erotica. No photos, please.

Creative Nonfiction editors will award $1,000 for Best Essay and $500 for runner-up. All essays will be considered for publication in a special issue of the magazine to be published in spring 2019.

Guidelines: Essays must be previously unpublished and no longer than 4,000 words. There is a $20 reading fee, though current subscribers may submit for free!* You can also submit and become a subscriber, extend your subscription, or give a gift subscription by submitting $25 to include a 4-issue subscription to Creative Nonfiction (US addresses only). Multiple entries are welcome ($20/essay) as are entries from outside the United States (though due to shipping costs we cannot offer the subscription deal). All proceeds will go to prize pools and printing costs.

Please check out our webpage for more details.

Call for Submissions: Psychopomp Magazine

Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly devoted to innovative and genre-bending prose, is now open to free submissions until August 15th.

 

We pay our contributors 2 cents a word up to $100 and a minimum of $5. Please read a previous issue to get a sense of what we like.

 

Submit here.

Call for Readings: Woman Made Gallery Literary Series

Call for Poetry Reading: Woman Made Gallery Literary Series
Theme: The Unquiet Mind
Event Date: Sunday, July 15, 2018/ 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 14, 12:01 a.m.
Place: 2150 S Canalport Ave, 4A-3, Chicago, IL

In her memoir, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison explores mood and madness, the terror and turmoil of living with mental illness. We are looking for work from the perspective of those with unquiet minds, their loved ones and professional healers – work that encompasses the experience of living and wrestling with all manner of inner demons, treatment, relationships, social stigma and more.

This reading is open to women and non-binary poets. Send us your best.

Selections will be made with an eye to assembling a program that represents a diversity of poets, styles, and approaches to the theme.

Selected poets MUST be available to read in person.. Please send 4 – 6 poems on the theme ALONG WITH a 50 to 75 word bio, IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to:

treehouse523ATsbcglobalDOTnet (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Submissions must be received by June 14, 12:01 a.m. We will make every effort to inform those chosen of our decision by June 19. Although we can't afford to pay readers, this is a great opportunity to sell books and read with other talented people in a very special environment.

If you know of someone whose work might fit here, please spread the word!

Read more about poetry events at Woman Made Gallery here.

Call for Submissions: Riddled With Arrows Literary Journal

Riddled with Arrows Literary Journal is now open to submissions. 

For our Summer 2018 issue, "Riddled with Arrows 2.2: The Invisible World", we are seeking writing-related fiction and metafiction, ars poetica, essays, visual art and non-classifiable written objects that reveal the unseen. Think automatic writing, runes, prophets, magic scrolls, disappearing ink, smoke signals, treasure maps, messages on steamed mirrors. We are particularly interested in the interplay of light and shadow and the myriad ways that writing illuminates our world(s).

Remember: Riddled with Arrows exclusively publishes meta-fiction/poetry and writing about writing. Works that skimp on the meta- or writing-related part will be rejected. Not sure what we mean by “meta” or “writing-related”? Read past issues for examples of writers who got it write right.

We are a paying market. Visit our guidelines page for more details.

Deadline June 17, 2018.

Call for Proposals: Lit Youngstrown Fall Literary Festival Sep. 21-22, 2018

Fall Literary Festival Call for Proposals

Lit Youngstown, in Northeast Ohio, seeks proposals for the Fall Literary Festival September 21-22, 2018. Deadline: June 30

The festival will feature a stellar faculty of visiting writers across styles and genres. Acclaimed fiction writer Lesley Nneka Arimah will deliver the keynote. Readings, craft talks and workshops will be delivered by Nin Andrews, Ohio Poet Laureate Dave Lucas, Craig Paulenich and Judith Vollmer (poetry), Jeanne Dutton (YA), John Kerstetter (creative non-fiction) and Jacqueline Lipton (fiction, copyright law). The Festival will also include a small book fair and ekphrastic workshop at the Butler Institute of American Art.

The Fall Literary Festival seeks proposals for creative readings, or individual/panel talks on craft, editing, best practices, pedagogy, literary criticism, outreach and other aspects of the literary arts.

More information and registration is available here or by emailing:

LitYoungstownATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

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Karen Schubert, Director
Lit Youngstown, a literary arts nonprofit for writers, readers & storytellers

Call for Submissions: Ladybug & Babybug Magazines

Ladybug & Babybug Magazines Seek Submissions on "My Friend"

Deadline: June 15, 2018

Ladybug (for ages 3-6) and Babybug (for babies and toddlers) are looking for short stories, poetry, action rhymes, riddles, and songs about friendship. How do young children make friends, and what roles can friends play in their lives? Does a friend have to be another child? When reading submissions, we look for playfulness, humor, and a sense of wonder. Works by and about people of color, LGBTQAI+ people, people with disabilities, and other marginalized peoples are especially welcome.

Submit your work here.

Writing Competition: 2018 Peter Meinke Prize for Poetry Chapbook

YellowJacket Press announces the 2018 Peter Meinke Prize for a poetry chapbook and expands the Florida contest to a national competition.

Since its inception in 2005, YellowJacket Press (YJP) has become known for supporting the state’s most vibrant poets and poetry as a labor of love. Recognized as Florida’s premier publisher of poetry chapbook manuscripts, we publish superior quality poetry in simple, yet beautiful, individually designed chapbooks.. YJP currently publishes 2-6 books a year and sponsors readings statewide for its poets. Based in Tampa, Florida, YellowJacket Press is a non-profit, independent literary press and a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).

YJP established the Peter Meinke Prize in 2011. Long considered a Florida treasure, Peter Meinke, Poet Laureate of Florida, has mentored and supported thousands of poets as director of the Writing Workshop at Eckerd College for over 20 years, through graduate workshops and through community-based writing programs. He is the author of over a dozen poetry, fiction, and nonfiction books, including The Contracted World: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press) and The Shape of Poetry (The Writer, Inc.). In 2009, Meinke was appointed the first ever Poet Laureate of St.. Petersburg. He was appointed Florida’s Poet Laureate in 2015. The contest honors Meinke’s enduring work and generous contributions to the writers and literary landscape of Florida. For more information about Peter Meinke, see his website.

Previous winners of the Peter Meinke Prize include Melissa Carroll for The Karma Machine; J.D. Scott for Night Errands; George Bishop for Following Myself Home; and Aliesa Zoecklein for At Each Moment, Air. Until this year, the contest was only open to Florida poets. Now it is open to any U.S. citizen.

GUIDELINES:
Poetry manuscripts should include 18-20 pages of poetry, title page, table of contents, and acknowledgments and be no longer than 24 pages total. Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript.

We are a small, volunteer staff and thus must limit the amount of submissions we can consider. Submissions are open between June 15 and June 30 midnight or until we reach 200 submissions. All submissions are through Submittable. Mailed and emailed submissions will not be considered. Members of the YJP Advisory Board will judge the manuscripts anonymously. 

The contest fee is $12. The winner of this year’s contest will be announced by Sept. 10, 2018, and will receive $500, 50 copies of the book, and will be invited to read with other YJP poets in October at the Other Words Conference in Tampa. All entrants may request a copy of the winning book.

The mission of YellowJacket Press is to support emerging and established poets in Florida (and now the U.S.) with an annual chapbook contest, chapbook publications, and public readings. YellowJacket Press creates a means for poets to share and promote their work, and nurtures a sense of community among poets and audiences across the state.

For more information about YellowJacket Press or the chapbook contest check the website or contact:

 yellowjacketpressATgmailDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )

Writing Competition: The 2018 Orison Anthology Awards

The 2018 Orison Anthology Awards are open for submissons! Winners in poetry, fiction, & nonfiction each receive $500 & publication in The Orison Anthology, an annual collection of the finest spiritually engaged writing from a broad and inclusive range of perspectives.

Past & upcoming contributors to The Orison Anthology include Anne Carson, Carl Phillips, Jane Hirshfield, Justin Torres, Vandana Khanna, Alison Gopnik, Paisley Rekdal, Kaveh Akbar, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Christian Wiman, Li-Young Lee, & many others.

2018 Judges: Zeina Hashem Beck (poetry), Richard Yañez (fiction), & Gayle Brandeis (nonfiction)

Deadline: August 1

Entry fee: $15 ($10 to add a back issue of the anthology) Enter today!

Call for Submissions About Illness: Quiet Storm

Quiet Storm Literary Magazine will be open for submissions starting June 1, 2018. Deadline is August 1, 2018. Submission requirements are as follows:

Fiction: Fiction should be whatever you define it as. We have no requirements in terms of style, format, or syntax. Breaking from the ordinary is encouraged; in other words, send us your ill-fitting pieces about illness. All fiction submissions must be 3,000 words or less. We welcome flash and micro fiction as well. Please include no more than three flash or micro flash pieces per entry.

Nonfiction: Nonfiction should tell us a true story, a deep story, in a creative way. We have no requirements in terms of style, format, or syntax, though we will not accept research or biography works at this time. All nonfiction submissions must be 3,000 words or less. We welcome flash nonfiction as well; please include no more than three flash pieces per entry.

Poetry: Poems should be intense and condensed. We want to feel everything we can in a small space. While we are open to prose poems, emphasis will be placed on pieces in some form of verse. We do, however, encourage creative use of space and breaks. All individual poetry submissions should be three pages or less in length. We welcome up to three poetry submissions at one time; please submit them within the same document.

Art and Hybrid: Consider this the place for your zany darlings. We want art, multimedia, cartoons, sculptures, and just about anything unique you can think of in this space. As this is open to interpretation, please be mindful of our requirements in length and quality. Please upload up to three images per entry, and please limit text-based content to 3,000 words.

Please attach all submissions as separate documents in .rtf, .doc, .docx, or .pdf format. Do not include submissions as text or images in the body of an e-mail. However, please do include a brief cover letter and third person biographical statement. The subject line of your e-mail should include your name, the title of your work, and the current issue.

Quiet Storm also accepts pitches or polished pieces for inclusion in our "On Our Shelves" section. All reviews, discussions, and thought pieces in this section must be related to full-length, published works focusing on illness. Please include your name and the title of the work being discussed in the subject line of your e-mail. In the body, please include a brief cover letter and third person biographical statement.

We do not accept postal submissions nor do we utilize submission platforms at this time. Please send all submissions to:

submissionsATquietstormlitmagDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
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Quiet Storm accepts only previously unpublished material. Published work includes any material posted to Internet publications such as major social media platforms, personal blogs, websites, and other journals. We are open to simultaneous submissions but request withdrawal of your submission upon acceptance elsewhere.
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We unfortunately cannot pay our writers at this time, though we do hope to change that in the future as we gain momentum.
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Quiet Storm reserves first North American publication rights and non-exclusive electronic reprint rights.