Lamp Lit publishes quarterly at the moment, though we would love to publish more frequently, and hope to do so as we pick up steam. We are looking for work we love, and that expands the capacity of our hearts. If you like, you can read our previous issues to see what we’ve chosen in the past, but we also eagerly look forward to reading work that looks nothing like what we’ve published before.
Submitting to Lamp Lit is free and we don’t have plans to change that. We accept submissions of poetry, flash fiction, personal essays, short stories of any genre and cover/other art for our issues.
We accept previously uncurated work, meaning that if you published it on your own website or social media in the past, that’s fine, but please do not submit work that has been accepted or published by another journal.
We also accept simultaneous submissions, but do tell us if your submission is being submitted elsewhere, so we can jump on your pieces if we love them. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere, and accept our hearty felicitations! If we do accept your work, please withdraw the piece from consideration by other publications.
We reserve first serial publishing rights, and the right to reprint or use quotes or excerpts for promotional use. All other rights revert back to you on publication.
We do not, at this time, pay contributors — this is a labor of love.
We will nominate for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
We do not accept submissions that denigrate other people of any description on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, religion or ability. Please do not send us anything gross. Submissions of this kind will be summarily deleted without response.
We do not accept work produced by AI. Please do not send any to us. Let’s not outsource our creativity to our tech bro overlords.
Submissions are accepted via email only at:
lampliteditors@gmail.com
Find us, or track your submissions on Chill Subs.
A cover letter is nice and we do hope you will say hello when you submit, but please don’t stress about it. What we really need is your short, third person bio and the titles of your pieces in the body of your email (separated by commas, please, not bullet points). Without a bio, your submission is incomplete. There’s no need to get fancy, just tell us who you are and where to find your work/socials so we can big it up when we publish.
You will receive a response from us within 3 months of your submission, and very likely much sooner. If you have not heard from us within three months, please feel free to request an update, and please keep it to the same email chain, that way everything is together, nice and tidy, and we won’t lose our minds searching the inbox.
More information here.
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