Submissions
Submissions are currently CLOSED. Please check back in the next month when we open our submission period for Fall 2012.
We accept the following unpublished unsolicited submissions:
- 3 to 5 poems (ideally 30-35 lines with blank lines counted; maximum 70 lines)
- 1 short story or novel excerpt (maximum around 25 pages)
- 3 pieces of flash fiction
- 1 piece of creative nonfiction (note: we rarely publish nonfiction, so make sure it’s of a very high quality)
- Up to 10 pages of experimental or cross-genre literature (including graphic stories)
- 3 to 10 pieces of visual art, must be a series
Writers may submit once per submission period. The submission periods are:
- September 1 to January 1 for inclusion in the summer issue (released in May)
- March 1 to July 1 for inclusion in the winter issue (released in December)
Once published in our journal, writers may submit again after three years.
Response times vary from four to nine months, depending on where your submission falls in the reading period, but we will usually respond within five months.
Manuscripts and artwork should be mailed and addressed to the proper genre editor, at:
Fourteen Hills
Creative Writing Department
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
All work MUST be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope for notification, in addition to an e-mail and telephone contact. Due to the volume of submissions, manuscripts CANNOT BE RETURNED so please, do not send any originals. We accept simultaneous submissions; however, please be sure to notify us immediately by email should you need to withdraw submissions due to publication elsewhere.
Please note that we began to accept electronic submissions for the first time May 2011 to test out our procedures. The opening and closing of electronic submission periods will conform to the above stated submission periods.
Please please please only send us your strongest unpublished work. Do not send us something you don’t have full confidence in. We publish only the best work we receive. For examples, order a backissue or subscribe to the magazine.
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