Guidelines for Submission:

1. Please submit all manuscripts as Word Documents through our Submittable page. You will be prompted to create a free user account that will allow you to submit your manuscript and monitor its status.

2. Please submit manuscripts as a single file and include a title page (without a name). We ask that your name be removed from the manuscript for blind reading.

3. To be eligible for publication, you must be enrolled in as a graduate or undergraduate student (at any institution) during the 2026 Spring semester.

4. Prose manuscripts should be 20,000-60,000 words.

5. Poetry manuscripts should be between 50-125 pages.

6. Submissions will close September 15th 2026.

*University of Alabama employees are ineligible for publication

Send us a short story or creative nonfiction up to 4,000 words or up to 3 flash pieces (each of which should not exceed 1,000 words). Please choose a standard font and don’t do anything crazy with formatting unless it’s central to the experience of the piece. Novel excerpts are fine so long as they can stand on their own.
If you’re sending multiple pieces, submit all of your work in a single file, use clear page breaks between pieces, and clearly identify each title in the title area of Submittable (Title A/Title B/Title C).
Make sure to tell us if you're submitting fiction or creative nonfiction in the cover letter.
Please double space your submission and wait a month before resubmitting.

*We don't accept work from anyone with current University of Alabama affiliation