Forgive us. We were waiting
here, in the thickening ice. We worked a long time. Now
we try to give what we found, a little basket
hiding behind each back, full of the young shoots.
They are so green. Mercifully green. We say so. Yes,
they are alive, we say. We, too. We are still sick.
Submissions
Submitting to Conjunctions
PRINT ISSUE
We are currently in between reading periods for our bi-annual print issue. The reading period for our spring issue, Conjunctions:78, Fear Itself, will begin on October 25th. Please follow the guidelines below to send us work for consideration.
ONLINE MAGAZINE
Submissions are open for our weekly online magazine, which we read for year-round and is not subject to thematic restrictions.
HOW TO SUBMIT
To submit via mail, please send your manuscript to our editorial office (address below) with a brief cover letter including your name, address, and email. In order to receive a response, you must include a self-addressed envelope stamped with sufficient postage for our reply and for return of your manuscript (if requested). Do not send submissions by any delivery method that requires a signature.
| Address mail submissions to: | Bradford Morrow, Editor |
| Conjunctions | |
| 21 E 10th Street, #3E | |
| New York, NY 10003 |
While we can’t predict exactly when an issue will close to new work, we typically read into August for our fall issues and into February for our spring issues.
To submit electronically, please see our Submittable page. Submissions via Submittable will reopen on October 25th and close on November 15th.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
Conjunctions publishes short- and long-form fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and hybrid texts. We do not publish academic essays or book reviews.
All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished. We will consider works in translation for which the translator has secured the rights.
Although we have no official restrictions regarding word count, most of the manuscripts we select for publication are under eight thousand words long. For poetry submissions, we suggest sending half a dozen poems, depending on length.
We strongly suggest that writers new to Conjunctions read our recent issues to acquaint themselves with our publications. Subscriptions are available here.
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