Submission Guidelines

 

Crab Apple Literary is currently CLOSED for submissions. 

Our reading periods are:

• October 1st - November 1st (issue in January)

• February 1st - March 1st (issue in May)

• June 1st - July 1st (issue in September)

If you have something that's outside-the-box, different, or just plain strange, send it to crabapplelit@gmail.com.

We accept prose, poetry, art, trashed love letters, grocery lists...you get the idea.

Please read all the guidelines carefully before sending us your work.

Copyright: By submitting to Crab Apple, you grant us First North American Serial Rights and the right to publish your work on our site with full credit given to you as the author. All rights revert to you upon publication but please credit Crab Apple Literary as the first home of your work should it find another one afterwards!

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Fiction/Prose Submissions (note: no nonfiction):

We accept up to two (2) prose submissions, each up to 3000 words. 
All genres and subjects are welcome as long as the material is not sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or otherwise bigoted (free speech does not equal free hate).

We only accept previously unpublished work (that includes if the work has been published online anywhere like social media, blogs, etc.).
Please include all submissions in one doc. or docx. file.
Headers should include the word SUBMISSION and your name.
Please include a short bio (max 100 words) with your email (and provide your preferred social media handle/website link if you would like us to tag you in our posts about your work!).

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Poetry Submissions:

We accept up to three (3) poems, each no longer than fifty lines.
All genres and subjects are welcome as long as the material is not sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or otherwise bigoted (free speech does not equal free hate).

We only accept previously unpublished work (that includes if the work has been published online anywhere like social media, blogs, etc.).

Please include all submissions in one doc. or docx. file.
Header should include the word SUBMISSION and your name.

Please include a short bio (max 100 words) with your email (and provide your preferred social media handle/website link if you would like us to tag you in our posts about your work!).

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NOTE TO POETS:

We currently publish our issue digitally on A4 size pages with 1 inch margins. Our font is 12 point Playfair Display (medium). If you have made specific formatting choices (line breaks, spacing, etc.), please make sure they come across how you envision them with these specifications.

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Art Submissions:

We accept up to ten (10) art pieces in any medium.

All subject matter is fair game as long as the material is not sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or otherwise bigoted (obviously).

Please send us your work in JPG format and make sure they are high-quality pictures. 

Please include a short bio (max 100 words) with your email (and provide your preferred social media handle/website link if you would like us to tag you in our posts about your work!).

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NOTE TO PREVIOUS CONTRIBUTORS:

We love you and adore you and want to see your work every day of our lives. That said.... please wait one submission 'cycle'  before submitting your stuff again so that we can give a fair chance to everyone. So for example, if you were published in Volume 1, Issue 1, please wait till we open subs for Volume 1, Issue 3 before sending in more of your glorious words/art/grocery lists. We're also going to be prioritizing new writers/artists/etc. though we are eternally grateful for you gracing our inboxes again <3

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FINAL NOTE:

We currently nominate for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize because we think your work is to die for and we want the world to see it!

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