Submissions
Please review our guidelines below and send us your work by clicking on our SUBMISSION MANAGER. Send your attachment as a Microsoft Doc or Docx. Regarding format: Standard-sized, serif font is preferred. Double-spaced prose, single-spaced poetry.
Please include a cover letter, a brief bio and contact info in the body of the message box as well. We apologize, but we cannot accept emailed submissions at this time.
If you write a variety of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, that's awesome; however, we only accept one piece per writer at a time. So please do not submit a variety of genres. Pick one, make sure it rocks and send it off!
Please, Lord God, follow our guidelines. You will be saving the sanity of many readers and editors.
We are a non-paying market, which really blows chunks, we know. Kindly keep in mind we have no endowment supporting us, funding is provided solely by broke writers, and those broke writers volunteer a lot of time to make Split Lip a desirable venue for your work.
Please send work that has yet to be published.
Please allow us up to twelve weeks to reply to your submission, though we reply much quicker when not backlogged. If twelve weeks have passed without a reply, please contact us at editor@splitlipmagazine.com with questions about your submission. Thank you.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN GENERAL:
Flash/Short Fiction:
Send us your best piece of unpublished literary, mainstream or experimental writing. Please send works containing 500 - 3500 words. Longer pieces may be considered, but less is more with Split Lip. Profanity, sex and such are permitted but we will not publish anything tickling the boundaries of pornography. As much as we like sci-fi, romance, mystery and adventure, please, no genre fiction. Again, send your best. We only publish three or four pieces of fiction per issue. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please contact us if the piece is picked up elsewhere.
Fiction Editor Jon Chaiim McConnell says he wants writing "with a distinct and unique premise. Writing from diverse voices. Writing that's powerful, strange, or playful, and maybe all of the above."
Flash Editor Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice says, "Send me your most potent words. Keep it short. Keep it sweet."
Memoir:
Give us the dirty lowdown. An unpublished dirty lowdown, please. We love memoir that shines a new light on the human condition. There are no limitations in regards to subject matter. Happy and sad endings are fun and all, but we're hoping for redemptive endings. Like our fiction guidelines, we prefer works containing 500 - 2000 words. Also emphasized in fiction, we ask that you please send your best. We only publish one or two memoirs per month. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please contact us if the piece is picked up elsewhere.
Memoir Editor Ray Shea says:
Steve Almond calls nonfiction "a radically subjective account of events that objectively took place."
That radically subjective space is where the magic happens.
Send us the stories you can't stop telling. Send us that thing that happened that you could write six different ways and never run out of ideas. Send us the secret that keeps you up every night. Send us the memory that you've looked at from every angle and then crushed with a rock to see what it's made of. Send us trauma. Send us heartbreak. Send us funny. Send us sweetness. Send us you.
Poetry:
Send up to five unpublished poems of face-melting material. Avoid any peppy and rhyming works. We want new, innovative works by fresh voices. Please avoid submitting what we consider "journal entries," meaning: rants about feelings and how unfair the world is.
Interviews & Reviews:
If you have a new book to discuss, a new album to promote, a new gallery exhibit coming up or you just want to shoot the breeze with one of us for a chat, feel free to submit an idea.
Split Lip Magazine's Publication Rights:
First-time electronic publication rights are really all we ask for. What's a magazine without exclusive content? Anything a writer does with their work after appearing in Split Lip is completely up to them and/or the next publisher they're working with. If you would like to acknowledge Split Lip when your work is published elsewhere (book, chap, another journal), we would be thankful. If you'd rather not, then no worries. Split Lip, as we hope the name implies, rebels against the literary status quo. If a publisher wants more than first-time publication rights and places more rules on everything, then they are on crack. In this time of nothing but non-paying markets, small presses with next to no budget, and expectations placed on the writer to promote their work, we believe publishers shouldn't have much of a say in what a writer does with their art.
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