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We accept submissions from September 15 to November 15th.
REVOLUTE is a literary magazine of the Randolph College MFA. Submissions are accepted each year from September 15th through November 15th.
If "no open calls for submissions" appears during our submissions period, this means we have capped submissions. Check back, as we may reopen...
General Guidelines
Revolute reads poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and microreview submissions during one submission period each fall. We encourage submissions from marginalized voices. We do not tolerate that promotes racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or harmful stereotypes and viewpoints.
For prose, send 1 story (or flash fiction) or 1 essay per submission, up to 6,000 words. For poetry, send up to 3 poems. We also welcome poetry comics, photo poems, video poems, erasures, etc. For micro book reviews, please send 1 review of 300 words or less. We welcome reviews of new and underappreciated work.
Revolute pays $50 per accepted work of fiction, nonfiction, micro book review and per acceptance of up to three poems.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please notify on Submittable immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Graduates of Randolph MFA may submit five years after graduating from the program. For Microreviews, there is no wait period.
Previously published work will not be considered. Contributors retain all rights but are asked to acknowledge Revolute as first publisher if the work appears in books, anthologies, or elsewhere. Please submit once per reading period. Response times will vary between 1-3 months.
Feel free to email:
revolute (at) randolphcollege (dot) edu (Change (at) to @ and (dot) to . )
with any questions. We are a seasonal MFA publication, so response times vary, especially over the summer.
Thank you for sharing your work with us!
- The Revolute Team
Submit your work here.
We’re open for submission in all genres until September 30th. We’re so excited to kick off the fall with your words and artwork.
We accept previously unpublished poetry, fiction, flash, and nonfiction. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know right away if your work is accepted elsewhere. You can include a cover letter full of amusing tidbits about you or of fascinating trivia you learned from a podcast recently, but we are not interested in reading a list of the journals your work has appeared in. What is important to us is that you are sending us writing that feels urgent and necessary, work that is ready to go out for a stroll in the world. As a journal, we are committed to publishing diverse voices of all kinds.
We know how nerve-wracking it can be to check your inbox every morning, hoping to hear back from a journal, so we do our best to make our turnaround time as quick as possible. We will try to respond to every submission within two months, if not sooner. Please do not send more than one submission in any genre until you have heard back from us.
Unfortunately, we will sometimes need to charge for submissions. We are a small volunteer staff with a limited budget, and this charge will cover only our costs for running Submittable. However, we want to ensure that submitting to Peatsmoke remains accessible to all. We will provide as many free submission periods as we can throughout the year. If you are submitting during a paid submission period and are unable to pay the $3 submission fee, please send us an email at:
letting us know, and we will waive your submission fee. Also, we offer free submissions for marginalized writers, as it is so important to us to support the words of those who have been traditionally underrepresented in the writing community.
Big News: We are now paying contributors!
We pay $10/per piece. We wish it were more, and hopefully it will be in the future. We would love to pay a million dollars/piece, since that is how much we feel you’re worth. We will also give your work a forever home on our website, sing your praises, and always love you! We nominate for prizes and anthologies, including Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. If published with us, we ask that you give Peatsmoke First North American Serial Rights and electronic media rights to your work. The copyright reverts back to the author upon publication, but we ask that Peatsmoke be acknowledged if the work is subsequently published in book form or reprinted in another venue.
We aren't looking for particular styles or types of writing, but here are some things we consider when reading:
Fiction
We’re into fiction that explores the human condition with empathy and curiosity. We love reading fully realized characters who are pushed and challenged, and clear, carefully-crafted sentences that bring them to life. Speculative and experimental work is absolutely welcome here.
Important: One story per submission between 1,001-7,000 words.
Flash
We love flash with strong sentence-level writing and compelling images that hold a moment and explode it, taking us to unexpected depths in a small space. We're excited to receive both flash fiction and flash CNF. If it's important to you that we know the genre you're submitting, please drop us a note in your cover letter to tell us. Realism, speculative, and experimental work, or a mix of all of these, is very welcome. Feel free to get weird — we’re here for it.
Important: An individual flash should be no longer than 1000 words. You may include up to 3 pieces in your submission.
Poetry
Nothing excites us more than a stellar combination of image and sound. We’re interested in how the two collide and inform each other and the work they’re doing. Images that have energy are the best images. Sounds and forms that follow content are the best sounds and forms. We want to be able to understand what’s going on in your poem by the weight and lilt of it in our mouths. We read everything aloud. We pay attention to line breaks. If we’ve seen it before, we don’t want to publish it. Please send up to three poems of any length.
Nonfiction
We aren't looking for particular styles or types of writing, but here are some things we consider when reading: We love nonfiction pieces we can’t classify. We most admire essays that (like poetry) emphasize image, that show the process of discovery. Please send only one piece at a time between 1,500-7,000 words. If you have flash CNF, please submit it in our Flash category.
Artwork
Peatsmoke features artists in each issue, with art paired with each story and poem and displayed prominently on our main page. We are into any kind of 2-D art that appears well on a website, with the exception of comics. Send us your collage, your photography, your paintings, your drawings, your woodcuts, your etchings, your linotypes, your sand art — whatever it is, we'd love to check it out. For our consideration, please give us a submission of 5-10 images. Please send only one submission at a time, and wait until you have received a response before submitting again.
Sometimes it can take months, even up to a year, before we accept or decline, a submission, especially if we like your work. We pair art and writing, so finding a match can take time, but we realize the long wait can be frustrating. If you want an update, feel free to send our art editor, Shagufta, a message after it has been three months since you submitted. If you would like to have your submission opened for editing to replace art that was accepted elsewhere, let us know at any time.
Submit your work here.
Submissions Open: September 15 - October 15
Award: $500 first place prize and publication in CutBank 106. Two runners-up will be awarded $50 and publication in CutBank 106. All other submissions will be considered with submissions for the print edition of CutBank.
Guest Judge: Sherrie Flick will judge the 2026 contest. Sherrie is the author of six books, including the short story collection I Have Not Considered Consequences (Autumn House Press, 2025). She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and Senior Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Her work has been performed at Symphony Space for NPR’s Selected Shorts and has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Flash Fiction Forward. An essay from her debut essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press) was listed as notable in The Best American Essays 2023. Her most recent awards include a Creative Development Grant from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
What We're Looking For: Interesting, compelling fiction and nonfiction prose in 750 words or fewer. Lyric essays, prose poems, short essays, vignettes, hybrid work — send us your best, most dazzling short form prose.
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions will be accepted through the Submittable submission manager. Print or email submissions will not be considered. Please include a brief cover letter, biography and contact information in the form provided. Please do not include identifying information in the body of your submission.
Submissions must be previously unpublished.
Simultaneous submissions are certainly welcome, provided that you withdraw your CutBank submission immediately via Submittable if it is accepted elsewhere.
Submissions should be double spaced, no more than 750 words.
Multiple submissions are allowed with separate entry fees. Please include only one 750-word piece or multiple micro pieces totaling no more than 750 words per submission.
Submission fee of $7 includes consideration for CutBank's $500 flash prose prize and publication in the annual winter/spring issue of CutBank. Two runners-up will be awarded $50 and publication in the winter/spring issue of CutBank. All other submissions will be considered with submissions for the print edition of CutBank literary magazine.
Mission Statement: Established in 2013, We are primarily looking for unpublished works, though we may consider previously published works (please have the rights to re-publish this, if you are not sure, contact the publisher). By submitting, you agree to give us the First Electronic Rights to print this as an online serial magazine. All rights revert to the author upon publication.
As a contributor to the East Jasmine Review, you will be given the electronic publication in .epub, .mobi, and .pdf to view your work. We ask that you refrain from distributing your work to others.
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Submit online here: eastjasminereview.submittable.com/submit
Fiction
For Reckoning’s next special issue, we are asking for environmental justice flash fiction of 1000 words or less. While we’ll take 1-1200 words, we strongly prefer things in the 500-1000 range. Outside of flash, what we specifically want are weird stories, dark stories, horror stories . . . and yet stories with some bit of hope to them, even if that hope is simply, We will persist, we will exist, we will endure. You can’t make the world a better place, after all, if you aren’t there to do the work.
We want you to take big swings. We want you to push boundaries of expectations and language. Okay, let me be real: I’m the editor, one Andrew Kozma. I like weird. I like dark. I like things I don’t know I like until I like them. Go back and read my story for Reckoning 3. Is that hopeful? I don’t know. I know it’s a blood sacrifice. What I’m saying is that I want your dirty, I want your rough, I want your jagged. I want your environmental justice in a box just waiting to be read to know if it’s alive or dead.
Payment: .15/word (US)
No reprints for this issue, please. Previously unpublished work only. Anything submitted to the special issue will also be considered for our regular issue, so please don’t resubmit. And we’re still accepting only one piece at a time per author. Once you’ve heard back, feel free to submit again!
Reading List for Inspiration:
You might start with the flash fiction that we’ve already published.
“Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]” by Emma Burnett in manywor(l)ds, which plays with form in an interesting way.
“I’M NOT TRYING TO SELL YOU ANYTHING AND I’M NOT TRYING TO SCAM YOU” by Jack Klausner in ergot. which isn’t really ecological, but the momentum and the dread and the weirdness of the situation are what I want.
Submissions for our flash fiction issue open now and will remain open until October 31, 2026.
Please review all our usual submission guidelines, then submit your work via our Moksha portal!
Shadow Falls Review is run by creative writing graduate students at the University of St. Thomas. We seek innovative poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art from August 20-January 20.
General Guidelines
We are open for submissions August 20-January 20. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but please only submit once per genre per submission period (except for visual art).
We do not accept previously published work. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable so long as you notify us and withdraw your piece if it is accepted elsewhere. If an individual piece in your submission must be withdrawn, please email us.
Submissions are accepted only through Subfolio. Submissions sent via mail or email will be discarded.
Please include your name, email address, and a word count at the top of the first page. Please use page numbers, and include a short cover letter with a third-person bio (no more than 150 words).
All writing submission files should be either DOCX or PDF.
Shadow Falls Review is committed to uplifting the work of underrepresented voices: writers of color, Indigenous writers, LGBTQ+ writers, and writers with disabilities are all encouraged to submit.
Your submissions will be reviewed with sensitivity and care by graduate students in the Creative Writing and Publishing program at the University of St. Thomas. We're looking for work that demonstrates intentionality, revision, and voice. We are accepting pieces which invoke emotions within the reader, leaving them with a lasting impression even after their eyes leave the page.
Shadow Falls Review does not accept any piece in which LLMs, image generation, or any other form of generative AI were used at any point in the creative process.
Contributors are given two copies of the issue in which their work appears. SFR will also promote and market their work as much as possible.
Shadow Falls Review acquires First North American Serial Rights. Rights revert to the author upon publication in our printed journal, but we ask that we are acknowledged should the piece be published elsewhere.
Submissions from current St. Thomas students or from alumni of the last five years are ineligible. We ask all contributors to wait at least two years before submitting again.
Response times vary, but if you have not heard from us by April 1 feel free to reach out at:
Submission portal and specific genre guidelines here.
