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Call For Submissions

Submissions are now open for Fall 2024. This submission period is open from August 1 to October 15. Please review the full submission guidelines and send your work through DUOSUMA by clicking on the link below. We greatly value the opportunity to read your work and look forward to giving full attention to each and every one of your submissions.

 

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  • General Guidelines

SUBMISSION PERIOD

Our publishing schedule is quarterly – Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. The current submission period is August 1, 2024- October 15, 2024. We aim to respond to submissions as quickly as possible, but our response time can vary depending on the number of the submissions we receive. Please submit once per submission period.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We welcome submissions in poetry, short fiction, and micro-fiction. We only accept previously unpublished work, whether in print or anywhere on the web. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please be sure to withdraw your submission immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Please indicate whether you wish to withdraw a specific piece or entire submission.

Please submit your work in Word or PDF format, remove identifying information from the work, and use standard font type 12p, double-spaced for fiction and micro-fiction and single-spaced for poetry.

We will try our best to preserve the formatting of your work, but it may appear differently depending on the formatting of your work and/or browser.

WE SUPPORT ALL WRITERS

We welcome and encourage submissions from writers of all walks of life, including every nationality, race, religion, gender, and orientation, and those whose perspectives are underrepresented in the literary world.

CONTENT SUITABLE FOR ALL AUDIENCES

Macrame Literary Journal is intended for all audiences. We will not read any submissions containing profanity, excessive violence, explicit content, hate speech and intolerance of any kind.

AI POLICY

We do not accept work created by, or with the assistance of AI. By submitting your work to us, you certify that you are the sole creator of the work.

AUTHOR RIGHTS

Macrame Literary Journal acquires first serial rights, and upon publication, all rights return to the author. If your piece is later republished elsewhere, please mention that it first appeared in Macrame Literary Journal.

Submission For Poetry

We publish poetry of all genres.

  • Please send no more than three poems per submission, and upload them as a single file in Word or PDF format.
  • Please include the title of each poem. For multi-poem submissions, start each poem on a subsequent page.
  • Remove all identifying information about the author from the submission.
  • Provide the author’s name, short bio, and contact information in an appropriate field of the submission platform.

Submission For Fiction

We are looking for excellent short stories of all genres.

  • Please send only one piece per submission, up to 1500 words. Use 12pt font double-spaced.
  • Do not resubmit a story you have sent in the past, even if it has been revised. Please submit once per submission period.
  • Remove all identifying information about the author from the submission.
  • Provide the author’s name, short bio, and contact information in an appropriate field of the submission platform.
  • We may ask you to make minor edits prior to accepting your work for publication.

Submission For Micro-Fiction

We publish micro-fiction that delivers a strong story within the approximately 250-300 word limit.

  • Please send no more than three micro-fiction stories per submission, and upload them as a single file in Word or PDF format, using 12pt font, single-spaced.
  • Please include the title of each story. For multi-story submissions, start each piece on a subsequent page.
  • Remove all identifying information about the author from the submission.
  • Provide the author’s name, short bio, and contact information in an appropriate field of the submission platform.