We are always grateful for the opportunity to read your work. You may upload one or more submissions here, and then please fill out the form below to complete your submission. Each submission should be designated to a single submission category. If we accept the piece, but feel it would be better suited in one of the other categories, then we will discuss this with you at time of acceptance. Please note: We do not accept work that includes machine-generated text.

How to Send Us Your Work: We accept submissions only through our electronic submission system below. We do not accept submissions through postal services or email. Your manuscript must be in one of the following file forms: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf, .txt. Submissions can be on any theme and must be previously unpublished, unless otherwise solicited.

Technical Difficulties: If you have any questions or encounter technical difficulties, please Contact Us.

Formatting Your Manuscript: All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, with at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced. Poetry should be single-spaced. The author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address should be typed at the top of the first page. Contributors are asked to include a brief biographical note with their submissions.

Timing: Submissions may be sent to us at any time, year-round.

Simultaneous Submissions: We accept simultaneous submissions, since we feel that it’s unreasonable to expect writers to give a magazine an exclusive look at a work unless the magazine can respond within two to three weeks. We want writers to have every possible opportunity for success, so we’re willing to risk losing a piece we want when someone at another magazine may have done their reading before we have, and in that case we’ll be sorry to lose the piece but happy for the writer.

Response Time: Our response time varies from four to twelve weeks.

Payment to Authors: Currently, we are unable to pay writers for the crucial work they do. However, we aim to pay in the future.

Word Count Guidelines:
SHORT SHORT STORY manuscripts must be at least 500 and no more than 2,000 words in length.

MANUSCRIPTS OF 2,000 to 15,000 WORDS can include short stories, essays, and other complete short works of nonfiction, and excerpts from longer works of fiction and nonfiction.

POETRY submissions may contain up to five poems. The poems should be contained in a single file. Your submission should give a strong sense of your style and range. We accept submissions of all poetic forms and genres but do not accept translations.

PHOTO ESSAYS should contain between five and twenty images, each photo with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. Captions or text must be included within the file that contains the images. Photographs must be contained in a single .doc or .pdf, and the entire file must be no bigger than 50mb.