Call for Submissions: Consequence

 

Submissions are welcome during the spring (January 15 – April 15) and fall (July 15 – October 15) reading periods*, and will be considered for our print publication (Consequence journal), our website (Consequence online), or our blog (Consequence substack). Please note that all subs need to address in some manner the consequences of war or geopolitical violence.

*Translations is open year-round

Curious about the work we typically publish? Check out our substack.

If you have questions, please check out our FAQ page. If you still have questions after reading that, please send us an email via the form at the bottom of this page. Thank you.

Please note that we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to AI-generated work. If your sub is deemed to have been created by AI, even partially, you will be banned from submitting to us.

Pay Rates and Submission Info--

Poetry

• Print: $20 per piece

• Online Feature: $50

• Substack: $30

• We love any and all forms of poetry so no restrictions here.

• Up to three poems per sub

Nonfiction

• Print: 1-4 pp—$30

• 5-10 pp—$40 | 11+ pp—$50

• Online Feature: $50

• Substack: $30

• Interviews, Critical & Personal Essays, Narrative Nonfiction, and everything in-between

• < four thousand words

Translations 

• The same pay scale and guidelines as listed for the corresponding genre (e.g., a translated poem follows the Poetry guidelines)

• Please note: Translations have additional sub requirements, which are listed on our submission platform.

Fiction

• Print: 1-4 pp—$30

• 5-10 pp—$40 | 11+ pp—$50

• Online Feature: $50

• Substack: $30

• Shorts: < five thousand words

• Flash: < a thousand words

• Excerpts: < five thousand words

Reviews

• We pay for reviews, though primarily publish ones we solicit. We’re open to pitches, though, so if you have a review idea for a book, movie, play, etc., that’s related to craft and/or our themes—please reach out to our Reviews Editor here:

reviews@consequenceforum.org

• Fifteen hundreed to three thousand words

Art

• Print: $150 for eight-page spread

• Online Feature: $50

• Substack: $30

• We’re interested in all forms and mediums, though graphic narratives tend to work better online

Submission portal here.