Sunday, August 29, 2021

Call for Submissions: Freshwater Literary Journal

 

Freshwater Literary Journal is a student-coordinated professional literary journal produced at Asnuntuck Community College since 2000, seeking submissions from the public. We consider poetry, short stories, personal essays, and creative nonfiction, and we publish a wide variety of literary work from students and professional writers across the globe.

Dates and Deadlines

Submission Period: August 15, 2021, to February 15, 2022. Acceptances and rejections will be sent on a rolling basis, no later than the end of March 2022. The new edition will be published in May 2022.

Submission Guidelines

Freshwater accepts submissions of poetry, short stories, personal essays, and creative nonfiction. We seek to publish a wide variety of literary work from people of all backgrounds. We look for new experimental takes on old mediums, as well as more traditional approaches.

To submit, email your entire submission in one attachment. Make sure to include your name in the attachment.

No cover letter needed, but send a brief, one-paragraph, third-person bio with mailing address in the body of the e-mail.

Poetry: Three poems maximum, up to 40 lines each.

Prose: (fiction or nonfiction): One or multiple pieces up to 1,500 words total.

Send to:

Freshwater@acc.commnet.edu. (No snail-mail submissions, please.)

No previously published material. Simultaneous submissions permissible if you notify us immediately of acceptance elsewhere. Payment is one contributor copy.

Read the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 editions of Freshwater online here.

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