Do you have a book, collection, or anthology forthcoming from an independent press? Send us an excerpt! We want to share sections from upcoming works in advance of their full release to drum up excitement about new indie books. We're seeking both poetry and prose.

Please include information about your upcoming book, the publisher, and expected release date in your cover letter. PLEASE, do not send the whole ms. Send us one or two stories or essays, or up to three poems--all as yet unpublished. *Please add the pub date to the title.*

We are looking for nonfiction in any form (essay, lists, diary entries, notes) that details the invasion of Ukraine. We seek the immediate and the personal, as exemplified as Sergey Gerasimov's March 5 segment from his "fast book of evidence." You're welcome to send drafts and queries. 

If you have a bit to spare.... We're all volunteers and every so often we use our own money to pay for odds and ends like postage to send a book to a review editor or copies of pieces to Best Americans.  You may think we're chutzpahdik to put out our virtual tip jar, since we ask you to pay a bit to submit in some categories. That helps cover our Submittable subscription. Otherwise we'd be drowning in envelopes, as in the old days. And we know how it's annoying to pay for what might turn out to be a rejection. Who told you to choose this life anyway? As Saroyan wrote:

Iowa said, “I just got in from Salinas. No work in the lettuce fields. Going north now, to Portland; …”

I wanted to tell him how it was with me: rejected story from Scribner’s, rejected essay from The Yale Review, no money for decent cigarettes, worn shoes, old shirts, but I was afraid to make something of my own troubles. A writer’s troubles are always boring, a bit unreal. People are apt to feel, Well, who asked you to write in the first place? A man must pretend not to be a writer. 

I said, “Good luck, north”… Fine boy, hope he isn’t dead, hope he hasn’t frozen, mighty cold these days.”

We publish art with each work of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and welcome all sorts of media. We also publish portfolios of an artist's work (including photographers). Please query with a link to your web site or attachments.

Please query. We believe that the best interviews are done in person, to allow for liveliness and spontaneity. Second-best is via telephone or Skype. We appreciate your providing us, with your interview, a photo of the person, taken by you or the subject's PR empire. We appreciate it even more if the interview is timely; see Cara Suglich's interview with George Saunders about his winning of the Booker Prize. When you query, please let us know your relationship, if any, to the subject. Yes, you can submit your work here and elsewhere simultaneously, but please let us know as soon as possible if your work has been accepted for publication. 

We welcome translations of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama  (including excerpts from novels or from full-length plays). Please submit the original text along with your translation. If we wish to publish the translation, we'll need  written permission from the writer.

If you're submitting a re-translation, please provide a note explaining why you think a new translation is warranted.

Yes, you can submit your work here and elsewhere simultaneously, but please let us know as soon as possible if your work has been accepted for publication. 

This portal is here to receive REQUESTED revisions. Please do not send anything else this way. Thanks for your forbearance.

STOP now if you're thinking of sending something besides the above.