Call for Submissions: Lunch Ticket

Our Projects

• Main Issues are published in June and December, with reading periods from March 1 to March 31 and September 1 to September 30.

We cap submissions at 500 for both poetry and fiction. Once we hit that number the submission window for those two genres will close immediately. 

We are proud to host two prizes in each of our main issues: the Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction and The Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts. Both prizes are open for submissions in February and August.

• Our Amuse-Bouche: Spotlight series is published every other Monday throughout the year, showcasing an individual writer or artist. We review literary submissions in all genres during January and July; the submission period for art is now open year-round and is selected from submissions to the Visual Art category.

Learn more about our curated occasional Amuse-Bouche series, including Writers Read, À La Carte, and Litdish on our “About” page.

• School Lunch: a curated bi-weekly feature offering fiction, poetry, flash prose, personal essay, YA, and creative nonfiction, from writers ranging from ages 13-17.

• Twitter Poetry Contest: a monthly feature of poems collected through our Twitter page @LunchTicket1