Submissions for Journal Sixteen open!
Our theme: Sabotage
So fun to say.
It thumps like a shoe dropped into the gears. It smolders like a slow fuse lit under the floorboards.
For Journal Sixteen, we are looking for sabotage.Sweet or bitter. Large or small. It might be a quiet refusal, a deliberate misstep, or a coded message. It might be a love letter thrown away by a jealous friend. It might be the body rebelling against itself, a system collapsing from within, a character who undermines their own desires. It might be the artist’s hand trembling on purpose, the poem that undoes its own logic, the narrative that eats its tail.
As always, we invite you to interpret this theme liberally—bend it, twist it, betray it. Sabotage it, if you must.
Send us your beautiful wreckage, your quiet detonations, your elaborate ruses, and your betrayals of self. We’ll be listening for the sound of gears grinding, the machinery silenced.
Muleskinner Journal Sixteen will close on December 15.
Our submission guidelines are here. Do your worst. It’s Sabotage!
What we look for…
Muleskinner Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following guidelines for your submission. Submit in only one category. Send no more than one submission per issue.
Poetry: Any length or form. (1-3 pieces)
Flash or Micro Fiction: max. 1000 words each (1-3 pieces)
Short Story/excerpts from longer (previously unpublished) work: (max. 6000 words) Please include word count on first page
Creative Nonfiction: (max. 3000 words) Please include word count on first page
Manuscript Guidelines…
We accept unsolicited general submissions for free, through Submittable.
We have a Tip Jar. It’s voluntary. But’s it’s there to help us offset costs and build toward paying our writers. Someday. Soon.
Submissions should be in .doc or .docx format and the file should be titled: Last Name_Title or Last Name_Poems.
Prose submissions should be sent in Times New Roman or similar, 12pt font, double-spaced, always, with numbered pages.
For prose, include the word count at the top of the first page.
Simultaneous submissions are fine — we’re writers too, after all — but let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Include a short, third-person bio - we want to know who you are, and include any social media handles you would like us to share.
No more than one submission per issue.
Feel free to inquire about the status of your submission if you haven’t heard back after a month. We try to be quick.
No re-submissions of the same work unless a revision was specifically requested.
And finally, when you send us a submission, we will add you to our mailing list. This will never be shared with anyone. You can unsubscribe at any time. We ask that you stay on our mailing list as a way of staying with the community we are building. We won’t send you too much, and we won’t send you advertising. If you do unsubscribe, you may always resubscribe yourself, but we will not auto-subscribe you again, no matter how many times you send us your work to consider. In short, we respect your Inbox.
We look for writing of all kinds that uses skill, wit, and determination to deliver the goods. We accept and publish poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction, short scripts, excerpts from longer works, memoir, criticism, craft essays, artwork, journalism, and shopping lists.
We don’t care who you are, as long as you are the author of what you submit.
And, we hate to have to say this, but please respect yourself, your readers, and other writers, and do not do that silly and shameful AI thing.
Submit your work here.
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