Submission Guidelines
The Dodge seeks fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and translation focused on place and environment. We’re excited by a wide range of forms and approaches, including hybrid and experimental work. We especially seek creative works that imagine a just future for the planet, and among other things, we’re interested in broadening the scope of stories, poems, and essays about nature, animals, and nonhuman life; we hope to see translations across borders, time, and space.
Given our focus on environmental justice, we’re eager to champion emerging and marginalized voices underrepresented in magazine publishing and eco-writing, including writers and artists who are Black, Indigenous, people of color, people who are trans, gender-nonconforming, and LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, women, and others.
A note on writing about animals: We receive a lot of work focused on dogs, cats, and charismatic megafauna. Obviously, these nonhuman animals are important in our human lives, and people write great things about them, many of which we’ve published. But we’re really excited to read about other less explicable creatures as well. Eco-writing as we see it can include minerals, fungi, forests, insects, fire, etc.
Cover Letters
We encourage you to include a short cover letter with your submission with a brief biographical statement (50-200 words). If your submission is selected for publication, your bio will appear beneath your piece on our website. In your cover letter, please also let us know if you have an association with one of our editors, have corresponded with us, or have been previously published in The Dodge. Cover letters are optional for all genres except translation and visual art.
Manuscript Guidelines & Formatting
- Up to 7000 words prose, typed, double-spaced. For fiction and nonfiction, please send a single longer piece or no more than three flash pieces (under 1000 words each) at a time.
- Poetry: Up to five poems in one document. Single-space poetry is fine.
- Translations: up 7000 words prose, typed, double-spaced, or up to eight poems in one document. (Poems can be single-spaced.)
- Visual Art: Submit up to five pieces of visual art.
Please include content notes for any material in your submission for which you think readers may appreciate advance notice. Examples include: violence, sexual assault, racism, suicide, self-harm.
Mail Submissions. We take submissions online through our Submittable.
We only accept hard copy submissions from incarcerated writers and those with accessibility needs:
Simultaneous Submissions. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please withdraw your piece on Submittable promptly if it is accepted elsewhere. (Exceptions may apply to visual art submissions; please contact us at:
with your questions.) If you have submitted multiple works, send a Submittable message to tell us which works you must withdraw. We do not publish previously published work at this time.
Response Times. We aim to respond within six months. If you have not heard from us after six months, feel free to reach out. Once you have submitted work, please wait to receive a response from our editors on that submission before submitting again. Please limit your submissions to once or twice a year. If your work has been published in The Dodge, we ask that you wait twelve months from your date of publication to submit again.
Restrictions. Submissions that do not relate to the magazine’s eco themes will be declined. Readers and editors of the magazine may not submit work, and we do not consider work from the College of Wooster faculty and staff.
We do not consider submissions created with the assistance of generative AI. In our Submittable portal, submitters will be prompted to affirm that no generative AI tools were used in the creation of their work.
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2026
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