Submit

We accept submissions to the journal from June 1, to January 15, at noon EST.  We greatly prefer online submissions—some submission categories require it. Please see the following pages for full submission guidelines:

To submit to the journal, excluding the Fall Longform Issue, please see our guidelines here.

To submit longform, longer works of fiction and nonfiction published in our Fall issues, see the guidelines here.

To submit a Look2 essay to the journal, see the guidelines here.

To submit to the Emerging Writer’s Contest, for writers who have never published or self-published a book, see the guidelines here. The 2024 contest judges are Dantiel W. Moniz (Fiction), Porsha Olayiwola (Poetry), and Augusten Burroughs (Nonfiction).