AQ2025 Course Descriptions! + 7 New Calls for Submissions + FINAL REMINDER: Spring English Conference & Celebration Tomorrow

Updated on May 15, 2025 By Ex Libris Comments Off on AQ2025 Course Descriptions! + 7 New Calls for Submissions + FINAL REMINDER: Spring English Conference & Celebration Tomorrow

Good afternoon, everyone! Today, have one reminder and two announcements.

The big day is almost here: TOMORROW, at 10:00 AM, our Spring English Conference & Celebration begins! Click here for full details, the schedule of events, and directions/parking info for visitors. We hope to see you (and your friends and family) there!

We’d also like to announce that, as of today, almost all of the Autumn Quarter 2025 course descriptions have been uploaded to the descriptions list; you can find these as a subtab under the “Classes” tab.

Finally, we’ve found seven literary journals that are accepting submissions through the end of May and early June. Scroll down to read the details on each!

(The information below has been copied from each journal’s website.)

1. Tint Journal

Deadline: May 31, 2025, 2:59 PM CST

About:

Tint Journal is the first online literary journal with an explicit focus on writers who produce creative texts in English as their second or non-native language.

By choosing English as their means of communication, these writers provide their English reading audience with an immediate take on their values, ideas, and beliefs. They bridge borders and blend cultures without the third party of the translator and offer the purest and deepest understanding of their fiction and nonfiction worlds. The width and depth of these translingual and transnational transgressions undertaken by ESL writers can be visually grasped by our interactive world map of published writers in Tint Journal. While we understand that the redrawing of national boundaries and language groups has to be seen critically, we want to give our readers, submitters, and other interestees a most accessible way to the world represented in our digital pages. Our published writers are free to state multiple nationalities as the places they’d like to be associated with, or poetically recreate these places in their biographies.

Our mission is to create a platform for emerging and established ESL writers and encourage them to stand behind their non-native English backgrounds. Their language has a uniquely modifying quality that enriches their stories and consequently their readers’ responses to their stories. We think that this quality has been ignored — even shamed — for too long. Through the innovative, tinted lenses of ESL writers, we shine a light on the ways that authors all over the globe can contribute to what we know as literature in English.

Guidelines:

Share your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash and poetry, written in English as your non-native language, as well as your artworks from April 14 to May 31, 2025 (midnight CEST) with us to be considered for our 14th issue on the theme of “Patchwork”!

Perched on the post that ends a washing-line
To sing there, as in flight,
A repertoire of songs that it has heard
– From other birds, and others of its kind –
Which it has recombined
And made its own, especially one
– Thomas Gunn, “Patch Work”

Where do you encounter patches in your life? What is in need of mending; what truly wants to be combined, reorganized, transfixed in the spaces you inhabit and in the scapes you witness? What is integrated, what integrates, and how does the process of enmeshing change pars and totum, the old, the new? What remains, and what is modified?

Patchworks can take many shapes. One of them can be language, as we find it in Thomas Gunn’s poem: A mockingbird’s singing becomes a combination of songs that other birds had sung before, and this reinvention becomes the bird’s song by itself. In writing, and especially in translingual authorship, the author’s many languages and cultural backgrounds might be those patches that are sewn together to form their own unique idiolect. Or, the written piece itself might be a patchwork, a collage, an assemblage of styles, genres, voices, figures. 

If we look beyond the writerly lens, we find patchworks in social structures, be it families, social groups, or workplace environments; we find patchworks in politics, in cultural artefacts, in global organizations, in handicrafts created in living rooms and factories alike. 

We’re not looking for keywords in your texts, and we’re open to finding the theme “Patchwork” as an undercurrent or a central idea in your submissions. What we’re interested in are the different approaches towards this theme from the many regions and voices of our planet, from the patchworks within one individual being to the patchworks that are the governing forms of our human condition.  

  • We accept original fiction and nonfiction creations by ESL writers (= all writers who have learned or acquired the English language after being fluent in another language), including short prose, flash as well as poetry. For text examples, see our current issue or visit our archive.
  • Please submit only previously unpublished pieces. If you have a previously published piece that fits our mission, please contact us via info@tintjournal.com.
  • Translations will not be accepted. Your text has to be an original creation in English. However, the work can feature words or passages in other languages.
  • We only consider submissions that have been exclusively created by human individuals; we do neither consider AI-generated texts nor AI-modified texts.
  • Please only submit one piece per category (short story, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, poetry) at a time.
  • For creative prose (fiction and nonfiction), please submit a piece (short story or personal essay) between 1,000 and 4,000 words.
  • For flash (fiction or nonfiction), please submit a piece that does not exceed 800 words.
  • For poetry submissions, please submit one poem only. If the poem has subsections, mark them clearly in your document. A poem should not exceed four C4, A4 or Letter pages in length.
  • Please name your document [Category*]_[Last Name]_[Title], e.g. Poetry_Miller_The Rose.
  • Provide your submission with a title page, indicating your
    • name,
    • first language/mother tongue(s),
    • second or foreign language(s),
    • nationality (state(s)/region(s) you associate yourself with),
    • category [fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, flash nonfiction, or poetry],
    • title of your piece,
    • word count,
    • contact information (your email address), and
    • day of submission.
  • Put page numbers on all pages following the title page.
  • All submissions should be sent to submissions@tintjournal.com. If this form of submission presents an obstacle to the writer, please contact the journal at info@tintjournal.com.
  • We prefer doc and docx files. In case your submissions requires special formatting, we also accept pdf files.
  • Allow for a time period of up to 20 days between the end of a call and an answer.
  • If your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at info@tintjournal.com.
  • Submit one piece per category at a time only. Feel free to approach us in the future with new work.

Audio File Guidelines:

  • We ask the writers who we publish to record their story, essay or poem at the end of our editing process. This audio recording is published along with their piece on our website.
  • Files should be in mp3, FLAC, WMA, or wav formats.
  • We prefer full-length recordings. However, if the work being read aloud is particularly long, you may choose either a section or the entire piece. If you choose a section only, let us know in advance.
  • Make sure your recording is clear and you are reading at an appropriate rate of speech. Begin by stating the title and your name.
  • For all audio submissions, please send the file via wetransfer.com to submissions@tintjournal.com.

Art submissions:

  • Submit hi-resolution files of your visual art (paintings, illustrations, drawings, photographs, …) to accompany our ESL stories, poems and essays.
  • Please review our call for submissions to find out whether we are looking for submissions responding to a certain theme for the upcoming issue.
  • We only consider submissions that have been exclusively created by human individuals; we do neither consider AI-generated artworks nor AI-modified artworks.
  • Give each artwork a title. The file should be named [Artist’s Last Name]_[Title], e.g. Munch_The Scream.
  • We prefer PNG, JPG or JPEG files.
  • Submit up to three pieces at a time, but feel free to approach us in the future with new work.
  • All submissions should be sent to submissions@tintjournal.com or submitted via Submittable. If this form of submission represents an obstacle to the writer, please contact the journal at info@tintjournal.com.

Submission page: https://tintjournal.com/submit/submission-guidelines

2. Black Fox Literary Magazine: Spring Fox Tales Prize: Mixed Messages

Deadline: May 31, 2025, 10:59 PM

About:

Here at Black Fox, we believe that literature and art have the power to connect people and inspire change. One of our goals is to create a community of readers, writers, and artists who share this belief, and who are dedicated to exploring the world through creativity and imagination. We hope you’ll join us on this journey! We publish both established and new writers. We welcome all fiction, but we especially like fiction from under-represented genres and styles.

Guidelines:

Black Fox is accepting submissions for our Spring 2025 Fox Tales Prize. The theme for this round is “Mixed Messages.” We are open to loose interpretations of the theme in any genre, as always.

As writers, we love working with words, but what happens when they fail us? We are asking writers to explore the chaos, heartbreak, and transformation that can come from misunderstandings, made-up truths, and intentions gone wrong. We’re looking for work about how missed connections can influence outcomes, where silence appears to speak louder than words, or where a simple miscalculation in communication leads to unforeseen consequences. We are always interested in all kinds of work. Whether it’s a humorous mix-up, disastrous failure, or the quiet tension of words left unsaid, the theme of miscommunication should be at the heart of your work.

Please submit your strongest fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, and we will choose one winner that we feel interprets the theme best. The prize is $325 and print publication in the Summer 2025 issue. All submissions are considered for print publication in the Summer 2025 issue. The contest entry fee is $12, and submissions must be submitted before midnight (EST) on June 1, 2025.

Please make sure your manuscript is double-spaced with 12-point font. Submissions should be no more than 5,000 words. For poetry, send up to three poems in the same document. For flash fiction, send up to two stories in the same document. Author’s name and page number should appear in the top right-hand corner of every page. We also ask that you specify the category/genre of your work in the cover letter.

Submission page: https://blackfoxlit.submittable.com/submit

3. The Baltimore Review

Deadline: May 31, 2025, 10:59 PM

About:

The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers.

The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a literary journal publishing short stories and poems, with a mission to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area, from across the U.S., and beyond. Our mission remains just that. However, in our online format, we can now bring that fine writing to the world’s attention, more frequently, and at less cost. We can also explore new ways to bring the world of writers and writing to the reader’s attention.

Guidelines:

What to put in that Cover Letter box: When you submit your work, please include a brief bio to introduce yourself. Generally, a “thank you for considering my work” and a brief bio similar to those on our website is all that’s needed. Note that for contest submissions, that information is concealed.

If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time, online and in print. Please do not submit work that has been accepted for publication elsewhere. All rights revert to the author after publication by The Baltimore Review. All accepted work will be archived on the website.

Simultaneous submissions are absolutely fine. If you need to withdraw your work, or part of your work, from consideration, let us know. Use the Withdraw option if withdrawing the entire submission; send us a message through Submittable if withdrawing part of your submission, e.g., one poem from a group of three.

Once your work has been accepted by a publication, always withdraw it from any other publications right away.

Payment for non-contest submissions is $50 via Amazon gift certificate or $50 through PayPal, if preferred, as well as a copy of the annual print compilation in which the author’s work appears. We hope to continue this as long as funding is available. We also nominate our contributors’ work for every possible prize. Contest prize amounts are announced with each contest. Current prize amount is $400 for the winner in each category.

General Submission Guidelines:

Poetry

  • Submit three poems. No fee. Please submit all poems in one document, not individually. If you later need to withdraw one or two poems, please send us a message through Submittable. No need to email us. No need to withdraw the entire submission. One submission per reading period. 
  • Submit poems for contest at that link (during contest submission periods), not this one.  Thanks.
  • Poems (including prose poems, which we love) should generally be single spaced, titled, with clear stanza breaks. Please proofread your work carefully before submitting. 
  • We recommend that you read some poems from our online issues to get a sense of what we do and do not publish. Not that we’re looking for any specific kind of poem. We like to be surprised. 
  • We look forward to reading your work.

Fiction

  • Submit one short story (really, just one, no more than 5,000 words; shorter is often better, to be honest). Flash fiction, one story only, may also be submitted here. Submit only one story per reading period. No fee.
  • We enjoy a wide range of literary short stories and recommend that you read same sample stories from our online issues to get a sense of what we publish.
  • Submit stories for the contest at that link (during contest submission periods), not this one.  
    Stories should be double spaced, 12-point standard font, one-inch margins, with indented paragraphs. It’s helpful to include the word count on the first page. Pages should be numbered.
  • Please proofread your work carefully before submitting. A couple of typos isn’t a deal breaker, but taking some time to polish your story—checking for spelling, grammar, punctuation, word usage, and other errors—before submitting it to any journal is a good idea. Also be careful not to submit a doc still in track changes mode. When you finish editing your work, accept the changes, eliminate comments, and save the doc.    
  • We sometimes need to cap submissions to keep the numbers manageable. If writers withdraw their work to fix something and then re-submit it, this counts as two submissions in Submittable—which could end up being a problem. A minor typo? Let it go. A major revision? Send the new doc as an attachment to a Submittable message rather than withdrawing and re-submitting. But again, taking time to carefully proofread your work before submitting is best. 
  • No need to tell us what your story is about or include extensive information about yourself. A “thank you for considering this story” and brief bio like others you see on our website is really all you need for the cover note box. 

Creative Nonfiction

  • Submit one creative nonfiction piece (no more than 5,000 words). Shorter works of CNF are often a better fit for us.
  • No fee.
  • A few thoughts on what we’re looking for:
    • For creative nonfiction, we look for the hallmarks described by Philip Gerard in Creative Nonfiction: particularly, an apparent and deeper subject, a well-told story, and the sense that the writer has spent considerable time exploring the subject and making connections outside personal experience—to subjects such as current events and social issues, history, science, politics, religion, the arts—and demonstrating fresh insight. CNF involves telling true stories about people and events using narrative techniques, with a careful attention to language.  It rises above chronological description. The narrator is involved with the subject, and there is evidence of reflection in the work. Although the work usually involves the narrator’s experience and opinions, the story should rise above the personal and speak to a larger truth. Readers want to learn; they also want to feel and care. This category should not be used to submit autobiography, life writing exercises, scholarly articles, research papers, book reviews, opinion pieces, rants, acts of revenge and other works that one of us might regret later, memoir that does not employ CNF techniques, and other work that doesn’t fit this category. There are many markets for them, and no doubt we’ll accept work from time to time that seems to defy our criteria, but this is where we stand right now.
  • Submit CNF for the contest at that link (during contest submission periods), not this one. Work should be double spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins, with indented paragraphs. Pages should be numbered. We appreciate seeing the word count on the first page. 
  • Please be sure to withdraw your work promptly if it is accepted by another publication.

Contest Submission Guidelines (submission fee: $8 per category):

Flash Fiction

  • No theme! Subject matter is entirely up to you. Surprise us.
  • But keep it short. See how much you can accomplish, how much of an impact you can have, with a small number of words. We want to wonder how you abracadabra words into magic. We want to be amazed and maybe a little jealous of how you do that.
  • One writer in the flash fiction category will be awarded a $400 prize and published in the summer issue. All entries are considered for publication with payment at our regular rate ($50).
  • Total word limit for this category is 1,000, same as for flash CNF and prose poem. One, two, or three flash fiction works in one Word doc, but no more than 1,000 words for all stories combined. Seriously. And shorter is often better. We love shorts.

Flash Creative Nonfiction

  • No theme! Subject matter is entirely up to you. Surprise us.
  • But keep it short. See how much you can accomplish, how much of an impact you can have, with a small number of words. We want to wonder how you abracadabra words into magic. We want to be amazed and maybe a little jealous of how you do that.
  • One writer in the flash creative nonfiction category will be awarded a $400 prize and published in the summer issue. All entries are considered for publication with payment at our regular rate ($50).
  • Total word limit for this category is 1,000, same as for flash fiction and prose poem. One, two, or three flash CNF works in one Word doc, but no more than 1,000 words for all works combined. Seriously. And shorter is often better. We love shorts.    

Prose Poem

  • No theme! Subject matter is entirely up to you. Surprise us.
  • But keep it short. See how much you can accomplish, how much of an impact you can have, with a small number of words. We want to wonder how you abracadabra words into magic. We want to be amazed and maybe a little jealous of how you do that.
  • One writer in the prose poem category will be awarded a $400 prize and published in the summer issue. All entries considered for publication with payment at our regular rate ($50).
  • Total word limit for this category is 1,000, same as for flash fiction and flash CNF. One, two, or three prose poems in one Word doc, but no more than 1,000 words for all prose poems combined. Seriously. And shorter is often better. We love shorts.

Submission page: https://baltimorereview.submittable.com/submit

4. Megacity Review

Deadline: May 31, 2025

About:

Megacity Review is a contemporary literary and arts journal committed to amplifying underrepresented voices in urban landscapes. Rooted in Los Angeles, Megacity Review explores the rich, complex experiences of life in cities around the world. Through a blend of storytelling and visual arts, we delve into the intersections of culture, identity, architecture, and social justice.

Guidelines:

Prose Guidelines

  • Theme:  Redemption
  • Word Count:  Up to 3,000 words
  • Format:  Submissions must be in a standard manuscript format (double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman, 1-inch margins) and submitted as a PDF or Word document.
  • Genres:  We accept literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and personal essays.
  • Additional Requirement:  Please include a short bio (50–100 words) with your submission.

 
Art Guidelines

  • Theme:  Open
  • What We’re Looking For:  Street-inspired art, fine art, photography, and other visual media that enchant and captivate.
  • Number of Pieces:  Up to four (4) images per submission.
  • Format:  Digital files (JPEG or PNG) at 300 DPI resolution. Files should not exceed 10 MB each.
  • Additional Requirement:  Please include a short bio (50–100 words) with your submission.

 
Review Submission Fee

  • Prose:  $10 per submission.
  • Art:   $10 per submission (up to four pieces).

Awards
Selected submissions will be featured in an upcoming issue of Megacity Review. Contributors whose work is chosen will receive an honorarium of up to $1,000.

Submission page: [access the submission portal via this page]

5. Escape Pod

Deadline: June 1, 2025

About:

Escape Pod is a science fiction market. We are fairly flexible on what counts as science (superheroes! steampunk! space opera! time travel!) and are interested in exploring the range of the genre. We want stories that center science, technology, future projections, and/or alternate history, and how any or all of these things impact individuals and society.

Escape Pod leans in the direction of escapism, hopepunk and optimism rather than grimdark and gloom. We love to see funny stories, which can include dark humor that doesn’t punch down, and satire that isn’t painfully bleak. Remember that the failure mode of irony is sincerity, so if you’re mocking something, be sure you’re hitting the right target.

We’re not interested in stories that contain sexual assault, rape, child abuse, animal cruelty, gore, or horror. We also do not want to see stories that treat the hardships of marginalized people or groups as thought experiments. While we may have published stories with that type of content in the past, they are not currently a good fit for Escape Pod.

Our primary audience is adult listeners and readers. Strong language and sexual situations are fine, but we are not an erotica market.

We publish our stories in text and audio, but audio is our primary format. Because our audience cannot easily reread or skim, we prefer stories of high clarity and tight pacing. Complex syntax, elaborate structures and typographic novelties (e.g. footnotes) are difficult for us to publish.

Guidelines:

Short stories – original fiction: 1,500-6,000 words (sweet spot: 2000-4000)
Short stories – reprints ONLY: 1,500-7,500 words (sweet spot: any)
Novelettes –  reprints ONLY: 7,500-18,000
These are firm limits.

We publish original and reprint short fiction. We do not accept poetry, serialized fiction, novel excerpts, screenplays, visual art, audio dramas, or non-fiction.

Payment: USD $0.08 per word for original fiction. USD $100 per story for reprint fiction. We cover any transaction fees. We are a SFWA qualifying market for original fiction.

Diversity: Escape Pod welcomes submissions from writers of all backgrounds. We are especially interested in seeing more submissions from people of backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from traditional SF publishing, including, but not limited to: women, people of color, LGBTQIA or non-binary gender people, persons with disabilities, members of religious minorities, and writers from outside the United States. When in doubt, please don’t self-reject. We appreciate you entrusting us with your stories.

If you identify as part of these or other underrepresented groups, we welcome and encourage you to indicate so when you send us your story. We acknowledge the reality of unconscious bias and will make our best efforts to account for it during the editorial review process. Our goal is to publish fiction that reflects the diversity of the human experience.

Cover letters: We prefer a short cover letter that includes only:

  • Your name;
  • Your story’s title and word count;
  • Whether your story is an original or reprint (and if reprint, where and when it was first published);
  • Up to three previous publications, if you have any (optional);
  • Any relevant personal experiences or expertise (including information as requested in our diversity statement above);
  • Your email address.

We don’t need your street address or phone number. We respect your privacy and will only ask for personal information at the contract stage if we choose to purchase your story. We ask for your email address as a backup in case something goes amiss with the submissions form.

We recommend minimizing the amount of time you spend developing your cover letter. We read every story we receive, and our associate editors (first readers) don’t see your cover letter, so we don’t need summaries or pitches.

Anonymous Submissions. No identifying information should appear on your manuscript. We use anonymized submissions for our associate editors (first readers). Only upper-level editors will read your submission form information and cover letter, including any diversity statement. Failure to anonymize the manuscript will not cause us to automatically reject your story, but failure to read and follow our guidelines may affect our decisions.

Manuscript Format: We prefer the use of Standard Manuscript Format or similar, but with all identifying information removed as described above under Anonymous Submissions. In summary:

  • Font – 12 pt Cambria, Courier New, Times New Roman, or similar
  • Spacing – double-spaced paragraphs
  • Emphasis – italics shown as italics
  • Title – centered, no byline
  • Word count – approximate, top of first page, left or right justified
  • Headers – not required; if used, should not include name

Note that these are preferences, not requirements; as long as your submission is close to manuscript format, minor formatting deviations will not affect our decisions.

Content Warnings: If your story includes topics that may be upsetting to some of our readers, please place a brief list of content warnings in the manuscript, before the text, in a location that is clearly set apart from the text (for example, immediately below the wordcount or title). Content warnings are appreciated but not required.

Multiple submissions: you are permitted to submit one (1) original story and one (1) reprint at any given time, thus you may have two (2) stories under active consideration at a time. If you receive a rejection while submissions are still open, you can send another story of the same type. If your story is still being held from a previous period or special call, you are free to submit another story (or stories) this period. 

Simultaneous submissions are permitted; just mention in your cover letter upfront that you’ve submitted your story elsewhere, and let us know if you sell it to another market first. Caveat: The only places we ask you not to simultaneously submit your story are to the other EA podcasts, namely PodCastle, PseudoPod, Cast of Wonders, and CatsCast.

Resubmissions: If we reject a story, please do not submit it again (even if revised) unless we explicitly request a resubmission.

Translations: If first English publication rights remain available, we treat the story as an original; otherwise, as a reprint. If the story is accepted, we will ask the author and translator to decide how to split the payment.

Submission page: https://escapepod.org/guidelines/short-fiction/

6. Mixtape Review

Deadline: TBD (but likely this month)

About:

Our mission is to celebrate the role music plays in our writing: it inspires us, keeps us going, and fills the all-too-often silent room with more than sounds of our frantic typing. As writers ourselves, we have often wished that our readers can hear the music we describe in our writing. This was the initial idea for the Mixtape Review— an experimental magazine where published work is presented with a song chosen by the contributor.

Join us in honoring the creative drive music gives us; contribute to our mixtape with your work + a piece of music.

Guidelines:

  • We publish poetry and prose (fiction, creative nonfiction) from writers of all backgrounds and levels of experience.
  • Please submit through our email, theofficialmixtapereview@gmail.com, and title your email NAME_(PROSE/POETRY). For example, TAYLOR_POETRY.
  • Along with a pdf. or docx. of your work, send us a 3rd person bio under 100 words.
  • Submit your writing with a song. Send us its artist + title.
  • Submissions are free.
  • Simultaneous and/or previously published submissions are allowed; it is the submitter’s responsibility to ensure that previously published work may be republished.
  • ​Any genre is permitted; however, if your work includes potentially triggering or sensitive content, please let us know in your email.
  • Any sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. works and AI-generated or unoriginal works will be immediately rejected.
  • If you were published in a previous issue of ours, you may submit again.
  • Poetry: No form or length requirements.
  • Prose: Submit any form or genre under 2k words.

Submission page: https://theofficialmixtape.wixsite.com/the-mixtape-review/submit

7. Breath & Shadow

Deadline: June 1, 2025

About:

Breath & Shadow is a quarterly publication on disability culture, written and edited by people with disabilities. It features poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, drama, and other writing that examines the human experience of living with disability — in every single issue.

Personhood in the land of disability can and should be presented in its multiplicity. Our journal showcases writing by people with disabilities in all its power, complexity, and breadth. We believe in cross-disability representation — that building a disability culture and aesthetic is enriched by (and indeed, requires) the inclusion of all people with disabilities.

Guidelines:

We review all submissions in the weeks following the deadline and will only contact authors if they have been accepted. If you don’t hear from us, then we have passed on your work for now, but we encourage you to continue submitting with us! Any pieces received after the deadline will qualify for consideration for the following issue.

Please don’t contact us about your submission status. We guarantee you that if you have submitted using this form, we have received it for consideration.

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  • Breath & Shadow only accepts work from people with disabilities. We use the term “disability” broadly to encompass anyone who identifies with it, and we ask for a brief indication of your relationship to disability in the submission process both to provide context for your work and to make sure that Breath and Shadow remains a space by and for the disabled.
     
  • Breath & Shadow accepts writing on any topic for poetry and fiction; these pieces do not have to relate to disability. Links to readings/performances may be included!
     
  • Essays, reviews, articles, and other forms of nonfiction must relate to disability in some way.
     
  • You must include a third-person author biography with your submissions which will be included in the publication. Please add links to any social media or other work.
     
  • We accept submissions from anyone, anywhere, of any age!
     
  • Previously published pieces must include when and where they were published. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. You are welcome to republish your pieces elsewhere after Breath & Shadow, but you must link/reference back to us if you do.
     
  • There is a limit of two (2) submissions per issue, with a 3000 word max per submission.
     
  • Compensation is $40 per Fiction/Nonfiction and $25 per Poem.

Submission page: [access the submission form via this page]