Interests:
We're open to all voices, forms, and styles. Please send your best unpublished chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips.
Simultaneous:
We encourage simultaneous submissions. Please withdraw your piece if accepted elsewhere.
Multiple:
No problem. Send all you like.
Misc:
Contributors receive a free copy and unlimited discounted copies of their issue, a bio and photo in the magazine, and the support of a caring and hardworking editor!
Response:
A week or so.
We take great pride in reading every word and giving each chapbook its due attention. We consider manuscripts of all styles and genres and aren't looking for a particular aesthetic. We give anything a fair chance. Please send your best fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, graphic narrative, or hybrid work. Manuscripts should be roughly 25-100 pages. Each submission comes with a digital gift of your choice: a chapbook, a copy of Palooka, or the editor's award-winning novel.
If Accepted for Publication:
- A perfect-bound book with a glossy or matte color cover
- $200 honorarium
- 20 free copies of your book
- Your own bio/photo page featured on our website
Length: 25-100 pages (flexible).
Cover Letter: Identify the manuscript as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, drama, graphic, or hybrid.
Simultaneous Submissions: Encouraged. Please withdraw your manuscript if accepted elsewhere.
Citations: It's okay if some of the work has been previously published; citations will be included.
Amount: One short story, a novel excerpt, or up to three flash pieces (combine into one document).
Word Count: Up to 15,000 words.
Amount: Up to five poems (combine into one document).
Amount: One essay, a book excerpt, or up to three flash essays (combine into one document).
Word Count: Up to 15,000 words.
Artwork: Up to ten pieces—paintings, sketches, drawings, collage, mixed-media, etc.
Photography: Up to ten photographs.
Amount: One graphic narrative, up to three flash graphic narratives, or five comic strips.