Submissions guidelines

The submission window for our Fall 2026 print issue, Conjunctions:86, Rights of Passage and Conjunctions Online will open on Friday, June 5th, and close a full month later at midnight on Friday, July 5th. All submissions will also be considered for our weekly online magazine, which is not subject to thematic restrictions.

How to Submit

Submissions will be accepted electronically via Submittable twice a year, during our fall and winter reading periods. Please check back here or follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky or subscribe to our newsletter for the earliest information about our reading periods for each issue.

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 We do not publish academic essays or book reviews.

All submissions must be in English and previously unpublished.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.

All work submitted to Conjunctions must be written entirely by a human author. Generative AI tools may not be used to write, draft or outline submitted content, with rare exception made for pieces that engage with the tool in an intentional, artistic, and transparent manner. While basic spell-checking and grammar tools are acceptable, any submission found to be partially or wholly generated by artificial intelligence will be rejected. Any use of AI in the creation of a piece must be disclosed in your submission.

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.

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Fee

For writers with disabilities or other medical problems that are causing serious financial hardships, or similar hardships due to unemployment or other exigencies, Conjunctions is pleased to waive our $4 fee for work submitted through Submittable. Please note that this modest fee helps us pay for processing and operating costs.