SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions are now open on a rolling basis!

We welcome work from black and brown makers in all genres, as well as work that reaches across multiple genres or obscures the boundaries between them. 

The work must be previously unpublished in print or online.

Before submitting, we ask that you take a look at our mission statement in order to get a sense of the journal. 

Please send all submissions to editors@emergentliterary.com with the genre as the subject line. If your work is multimedia or doesn’t exactly fit into one category, list MULTI as your genre. Feel free to include a short note in the body of the email, and your work as an attachment.

We’re cool with simultaneous submissions, just let us know by email if one or all of your pieces are accepted elsewhere! 

We will try our best to get back to you within 6 months. We’re a small team! If you have not received a response by then, you can send us an email, but please wait until then to do so. 

Poetry: Please submit three to five poems, including page breaks between poems and clearly delineated titles. 

Fiction, Creative Nonfiction and other prose (including reviews) Please submit up to 1500 words total, double spaced and in a standard font. We will absolutely review multiple pieces, so long as they come in under 1500 total per submission. We also accept excerpts from longer works that meet that word count!

Photography and Visual Art: Please submit up to four images as an attachment to your email with the title(s) of the work(s) as the file names.

Audio and Video: Please submit up to 7 minutes of video or audio, with audio files attached as .mp3 or mp4.

Recipes: Yes, please! If you have accompanying photographs, please attach them to the email.

We warmly welcome mixed/multimedia work!

We so look forward to engaging with your work.