Ecotone, the literary magazine dedicated to reimagining place, welcomes work from a wide range of voices. We are particularly interested in place-based work by people and from perspectives historically underrepresented in literary publishing and in place-based contexts: writers and artists who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, people who are gender-nonconforming and LGBTQIA+, women, people with low access to wealth, people from rural places, and others. We welcome the work of emerging writers of all ages and walks of life. Please review our complete guidelines before submitting. We strongly encourage writers to read work we’ve published before sending their own. A selection of writing and art from recent issues is featured on our website, where you can also order a copy of the magazine or subscribe.
Spring 2026
We will open to general submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction this spring, and will be reading for upcoming unthemed issues and for the Delight Issue. Given the overwhelming response to our recent reading periods, for our fee-free window we will cap submissions at 250.
Opening Feb. 2: Fee-free submissions (closes after 250 submissions)
Feb. 2–4: General window ($3 fee via Submittable)
Feb. 2–March 2: Current subscribers may submit (no fee)
Valentine’s Day 2026
Happy Valentine’s! For our annual fee-free Valentine’s Day window, we invite submissions of work we love and would like to see more of. This year we’re looking only for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that engage directly with the climate crisis, and for work that responds to our call for the Delight Issue. Please do send us work that directly addresses these things, and don’t send anything else—if you have other work to share, wait for our next reading period. Thanks, Valentines!
If you already submitted during one of our general windows, but have additional work that fits these criteria, feel free to send one additional submission on Valentine’s Day.
This reading period is one day only: February 13.
Prose
We appreciate a wide range of essays, and are especially interested in nonfiction that engages deeply, but not overly seriously, with the sciences—ecology, natural history, and other fields, in both Western and non-Western contexts.
We like to see fiction that is deeply rooted in place, and/or that engages similarly with ecology, natural history, climate crisis, et al.
A prose submission consists of one prose piece (fiction or nonfiction) of no more than thirty double-spaced pages (approx. 10,000 words).
Most work we run is shorter than this upper limit.
We are also interested in shorter prose works (minimum 2,000 words, please).
Poetry
We are especially interested in poetry that engages with the social and natural sciences and/or considers place, ecology, identity, and climate crisis, as well as poetry that uses form, meter, and/or other poetic constraints in innovative and expansive ways. Work in the French repeating forms (rondeaux, ballades, rondelets, and the like) as well as in newer forms (golden shovels, fibs, etc.) is especially encouraged, as is work that employs meters other than iambic.
A poetry submission consists of three (minimum) to five (maximum) poems.
Accepted Work
We are dedicated to supporting our contributors with a thoughtful editorial process.
We use Microsoft Word to send edits. If Word is not a good option for you, we can also work in OpenOffice or Pages.
Contributors receive an honorarium upon publication, with a $100 minimum; two copies of the issue in which their work appears; and a one-year subscription beginning with the subsequent issue.
Thanks for thinking of Ecotone! We look forward to reading your work.
More information and submission link here.
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