Issue 17 reading period opens January 1, 2024 and closes February 10, 2024. We're hoping to select only 10 pieces for this online issue, so do send us your very best work, not your "seconds," or first drafts. Thank you!
Theme: NATURE
Once we reach our submission limit for the reading month, we won't open again until the beginning of the next reading month. The categories will close at that time. Check back at the beginning of the following reading month. We have rolling submission periods.
Issue 17: NATURE
In these uncertain times, nature can be a healing balm, a beautiful distraction, and a way through, a path.
Send us your best work having to do with nature. Lyrical pieces are highly sought after.
Nonfiction: up to 5000 words.
Prose poetry: any number of lines, up to 2 pieces.
Fiction: up to 1000 words.
Artwork: up to 3 pieces.
No reprints, please. And we'd prefer if it was your own work rather than something generated by a computer program. You know how silly that looks for a writer, right?
Response time will vary from 1 day to 6 or 8 weeks, rarely longer. Please don't check on a submission if you haven't heard back from us, until at least 2 months since you submitted it, though we doubt very much if it'll take that long. And yes, we do read what is sent -- but often early on we'll determine that a work simply isn't for us, and hence the quick turnaround. Usually the longer we keep it, the more likely we're considering it, but then occasionally we'll decide to grab it immediately, so length of time in-progress isn't really an indication of anything.
Send only once per this reading period. Second submissions will be declined. Only ONE submission in this reading period, not one per genre. ONE total.
We will likely publish pieces staggered over 2 or 3 months, but then we might publish them all at once. Who knows? Be patient. And it really doesn't help to ask us "when will this be published," because often we just don't know. Our schedules differ and we're busy people too, and we'd rather not have to deal with emails that ask questions we don't know the answers to.
Please send! We can't wait to read your beautiful nature-themed work.
Miscellaneous Facts
Accepted contributors will be required to sign an author's agreement. Any writer from any country in the world is welcome to submit work in English. This will be an online-only issue. Select work may be included in a future print anthology. Submissions may be nominated for various literary acknowledgments.
Submit your work here.
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