Call for Submissions from Undergraduate and Graduate Students: Mistake House

 

Submissions for Issue 10 are open through March 20, 2024. 

Mistake House Magazine welcomes submissions of fiction and poetry by student writers actively enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs around the world.

We juxtapose the works of student writers with those of established professionals, whose profiles appear by invitation in our Soap Bubble Set section.

Editorial Mission and Calls for Fiction and Poetry

In our May 2020 issue, Mistake House Magazine rolled out a new tag line: a space between ordinary and odd.

The times we live in ask writers and readers, as Audre Lorde said, to “learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.” Since its inaugural 2015 issue, Mistake House Magazine has been committed to publishing inventive, compassionate, and insightful creative writing and art. Simply, we offer an open invitation to send us work with heart and work that tells us something fresh about the ordinary and odd world we think we know.

We welcome variety in subject, form, and perspective, including all modes of literary writing from domestic realism to speculative fiction to experimental poetry and beyond.

Submitting writers should want their work to contribute to a larger dialogue in the world. Mistake House Magazine seeks to participate in the literary community’s urgent efforts to draw on moral courage to write about pressing issues in the world today. We believe that writing honestly about current human issues is a way to be involved and make a positive impact.

Works in Translation

While we publish all works in English, we welcome the opportunity to publish global submissions and will accept work in any language. However, since we do not have an editorial staff to handle translation into English, we ask that submissions in languages other than English be accompanied by an English translation. If accepted, Mistake House will publish both versions, the original and the author’s English translation, side by side.

A Call for Photography

Mistake House Magazine also considers submissions of original photography by students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs. In photographic submissions, too, we are particularly interested work expressive of documentary poetics. Submitted photographs should speak to our editorial mission and to the “space between ordinary and odd” in which we currently find ourselves.

Three Editor’s Prizes of $100 are offered annually: one for fiction, one for poetry, and one for photography. Prizes will be announced upon publication on May 1, 2024.

We look forward to reading and seeing your work.

More information and submission portal on our website.