Lockjaw Magazine is an online journal publishing experimental and literary poetry and prose. We’re open for submissions for our sixth issue from October 15-November 30.
Full Submission Guidelines (PLEASE READ THEM)
We offer personalized feedback to any submitter who opts to receive it. You must request personalized feedback when you send in your submission. If you don’t opt in up front, we will send you a standard response should we end up declining your work.
We are particularly interested in reading work from marginalized writers (gender and sexual minority writers, writers of color, immigrant writers, low-income writers, and others).
Please don’t give us a detailed cover letter. We don’t consider previous publications in evaluating your work (though we’re very proud of you) and, as a general tip, please don’t explain your piece to us before we have a chance to read it. We’re good with “Dear Editors, here’s my submission, I’d love to receive feedback/a standard response is fine, thank you for your time.” That’s it!
We do not publish nonfiction. A few of you try every time. We’ll send it right back.
Neither of your Volume VI editors are men (Xtina: she/they; Keri: they/their). We notice it when you don’t.
We generally take three to ten weeks to respond. We offer one-week expedited responses throughout our reading period if you provide proof of donation to a charitable organization (we love LGBTQ+ orgs, RAINN, RAICES, your local public library, and groups promoting literacy access, among others).
We pay $10 to each contributor upon publication. It’s not much, but it’s what we’ve got..
Please send all submissions to:
submissionsATlockjawmagazineDOTcom (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
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