We are closed to all submissions until May 27
Short Fiction/Prose: 1000 to 4000 words. One story/prose piece only.
Flash Fiction/Prose: 100 to 1000 words apiece. One to three pieces.
Poetry: Three to Five poems. Prose poetry and hybrid form welcome.
Mixed-genre: Two to four flash prose pieces and poems that revolve around the same theme or imagery.
For fiction/prose, we are partial to surrealist dreamscapes. Realist fiction is welcome if it’s dark and quirky. Experimental and genre-blurring works are sought. For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative.
Art/Text: One to three flash prose pieces or poems, based on or paired with artwork by the writer or a visual artist.
Artwork: Two to five pieces of visual poetry, asemic writing or other post-literate variety. Preferences will be given to images that work as a series. Collaborations are welcome.
Prose and poetry must be entirely unpublished. Artwork may be previously posted on the artist’s web site or blog. Editor may solicit reprints of artworks.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Include a 50-word, third person author/artist bio. Longer bios will be subject to editing.
Please read our back issues (Prose; Poetry; Artwork/Art&Text) to get a sense of our editorial drift. For more on what we’re looking for, read the editor’s interview here.
If your work has been featured in A-Minor, please wait at least six months before submitting again.
If your submission has been declined, please wait at least one month before submitting again.
A-Minor requires First North American Serial Rights and all archival rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work appears elsewhere in print or online, please give due credit to A-Minor.
A-Minor nominates for most major prizes.
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Your guidelines say “Please submit to one category at a time, and put ALL stories or poems in ONE file.” Does that mean one category per submission period or simply one email per category?
Hi Deborah – it means submitters should wait for a response before sending something else (to the same or another category).
Thanks Nicolette! That clarifies nicely.
do you accept prose translations? (with translation rights/author’s permission)
……you meant “too” when you were labeling the idiots out there. Not “to.”
Asking questions are truly fastidious thing if you are not understanding something completely,
except this piece of writing offers fastidious understanding even.
The cover letter: is it okay to include my name?
Hi, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam feedback?
If so how do you reduce it, any plugin or anything you can suggest?
I get so much lately it’s driving me crazy so any help is very much appreciated.
In fact when someone doesn’t understand afterward its up to other people that they will help, so here it happens.
selma needs an english lesson or two (perhaps three)
How about any erotica or literotica?