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 Please send your best unpublished chapbooks, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, graphic narratives, and comic strips.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:

1-2 weeks.

$8.00

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. 

$3.00
$3.00

Amount: One short story, a novel excerpt, or up to three flash pieces (combine into one document). 

Word Count: Up to 15,000 words. 

$3.00
$3.00

Amount: Up to five poems (combine into one document).

$3.00
$3.00

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.
 

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