These waters are eclectic, baby, sometimes irreverent and odd, but mom loves us anyway—Mother Nature, that is. And we love her. That’s why everything we publish at Skipjack Review shares a reeling concern for the world around us.
Send us your truths. Send us your untruths. Send us your tales of victory. Send us your tales of whoa—like that time you flipped your canoe, lost all your gear, and spent a night roughing it and wondering if you could fight off a pack of coyotes with a rock. (Whoa!) We’re interested in writing and art that slays real-world red herrings in our day-to-day lives. If it pokes holes in preconceived notions, bursts bubbles, offers insight, or makes light where, otherwise, darkness might prevail, we want it to—and we want it, too!
Skipjack Review invites submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, graphic narratives, translations, and hybrid works year-round. We publish three issues annually: two free, online issues, and one print anthology. We are now a paying market, although our pockets are still pretty shallow. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know if work submitted this way is accepted elsewhere. Submissions accepted via Submittable.
Guidelines
Prose
Fiction and creative nonfiction should be limited to one standalone short story, essay, or hybrid work, double-spaced, up to 5,000 words in length. Skipjack Review primarily publishes literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, but we love breaking this rule for cli-fi and slipstream stories and experimental works that blur genre conventions. Please include a word count at the top of your submission or in your cover letter.
Poetry
Writers are encouraged to submit up to 5 poems per submission, max ten pages. While we prefer modern poetry forms, we are open to anything, even, on occasion, eccentric limericks, sonnets, and haikus.
Visual Art and Graphic Narratives
All visual art, graphic narratives, comics, etc. should stand alone as a complete story or thought. Alternatively, we also consider suites of small-ish doodles and art, up to five pieces per submission. Please submit comics as a PDF. You may submit any combination of black and white or full color. We may ask for a higher resolution upon acceptance.
Simultaneous/Multiple Submissions
We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions but ask that you promptly inform us if your work is accepted elsewhere. We won’t be mad; we’ll be happy for you. However, please wait at least three months after receiving a response before submitting again. Additionally, please do not send another submission if you already have an active submission.
Works we do not consider:
- Congrats! But we do not accept previously published work at this time. This includes blogs, social media, etc.
- Please do not submit book-length works at this time.
- Nature is scary, but we will only entertain a specific brand of spooky: getting lost on a hike through Mark Twain National Forest, poetry or prose detailing animal calls at night, the terrors of climate change, etc. Skipjack does not publish outright horror.
- We don’t accept works with copyrighted materials of any kind. As an independent journal, we do not have the funding to pay for copyrighted material.
- Nature is beautiful and fun, but we do not accept erotica or fan fiction either.
Other Considerations:
- Please use standard formatting, more or less
- If your work warrants a trigger warning, please provide one
- We try to respond to submissions within three months, but if you haven’t heard from us after six months feel free to drop us a line at:
- Because Submittable charges us a small fee for each submission we receive, please wait three months after receiving a response before submitting again unless submitting a tip jar or feedback submission.
Acceptances
Accepted works will appear in Skipjack Review and/or on the Skipjack Review website and will be considered for The Dead Herring Prize . Additionally, we nominate contributors for Best-of Net, the Pushcart Prize, and, when possible, other such honors.
Payments
We pay .01 cent/word, minimum $5, via PayPal or Venmo. Additionally, The Dead Herring Prize is awarded annually to one contributor from the previous year whose work slays real-world red herrings in our day-to-day lives. All accepted stories, poems, prose, comics, notes, doodles, whispers, and whimsy published by Skipjack Review during the calendar year are considered for this $100 prize.
The Fine Print
Skipjack Review obtains exclusive first serial rights in English to publish your work in our literary magazine in print, online, and/or electronic versions, as well as promotional, nonexclusive anthology and archival rights. All applicable rights revert back to you following publication, and at all times you retain the copyright to your work. Skipjack Review reserves the right to remove content from issues following publication.
Skipjack’s Purpose
We are a journal about environment in every sense of the word. Beginning at birth, each of us is bound to our environment. From pollution of the earth to pollution of the mind to server farm statistics to gardening on Mars… We’d publish a modernized rendition of War and Peace, follow that up with a pretty haiku about flowers, and the next minute release some weird sci-fi in the vein of Flowers for Algernon—so long as at the heart of each is a deep concern for the world around us. For a deeper dive into the kind of writing and art we publish, check out our archives.
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