Sequestrum publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts on a rolling basis.
The best way to familiarize yourself with our tastes is to read what we’ve published. Sequestrum offers pay-what-you-can subscriptions, where as little as $2.50 gets you access to everything we’ve published and allows you to make free submissions.
Visit our Submission Page for complete general guidelines, and check the website for updated theme calls.
General Sequestrum policies are here. We update submission status using the email address provided and may provide other updates regarding deadlines, journal updates, etc. Please note that Submittable uses its own privacy policy. Many literary journals use Submittable to process submissions, but we always recommend you review privacy policies as needed.
Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter.
Submissions should generally not exceed 10,000 words. If you have a great piece which you think is a good fit and exceeds these guidelines, send it. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
Submissions should be no more than thirty-five (35) lines; up to four (4) poems per submission. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter.
It seems the world is increasingly jaded about heroes. Some of it’s for good reason. They are multibillion dollar franchises and the centers of controversies and the collectors of social media followings. And despite this, we think there’s still something to heroics in the modern age. For this call, we want your lost heroes, your disappointments, your antihero darlings, but we also want your mother’s quiet patience, your small neighborhood victory, your saving of yourself. Also, don’t we all want somebody who saves the goddamn world in the end? That’s all. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best. Deadline 9/15.
Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-heroes
Submissions should generally not exceed 12,000 words. If you have a great piece which you think is a good fit and exceeds these guidelines, send it. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
It seems the world is increasingly jaded about heroes. Some of it’s for good reason. They are multibillion dollar franchises and the centers of controversies and the collectors of social media followings. And despite this, we think there’s still something to heroics in the modern age. For this call, we want your lost heroes, your disappointments, your antihero darlings, but we also want your mother’s quiet patience, your small neighborhood victory, your saving of yourself. Also, don’t we all want somebody who saves the goddamn world in the end? That’s all. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best. Deadline 9/15.
Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-heroes
Submissions should be no more than thirty-five (35) lines; up to four (4) poems per submission.
Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter.
“No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Frost
We’ve always been drawn to writing which favors curiosity. The best writing occupies the space between constants, favors variability, and leaves the prescriptive behind. In a way all those works are doing some similar. Exploring the unknown. We want work which dares to take new paths, challenge perspectives, or lands off the map altogether. We want tense, imaginative, literary-quality writing that dares explore new spaces. That’s all. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best. Deadline 9/15.
https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-the-unknown
Submissions should generally not exceed 12,000 words. If you have a great piece which you think is a good fit and exceeds these guidelines, send it. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
“No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” – Frost
We’ve always been drawn to writing which favors curiosity. The best writing occupies the space between constants, favors variability, and leaves the prescriptive behind. In a way all those works are doing some similar. Exploring the unknown. We want work which dares to take new paths, challenge perspectives, or lands off the map altogether. We want tense, imaginative, literary-quality writing that dares explore new spaces. That’s all. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best. Deadline 9/15.
Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-the-unknown
Submissions should be no more than thirty-five (35) lines; up to four (4) poems per submission.
Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter.
We live in an increasingly visual world, and writing is no exception. Graphic novels. Erasures. Photographic essays. Comics. Visual poetry. Cross-genre. There are probably entire categories of visual writing that we’ve never heard of. We want those too. We’re after literary-quality writing with a visual component. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or some combination thereof. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best. Deadline 9/15.
https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-visual-narrative
Submissions should generally not exceed 12,000 words. If you have a great piece which you think is a good fit and exceeds these guidelines, send it. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
We live in an increasingly visual world, and writing is no exception. Graphic novels. Erasures. Photographic essays. Comics. Visual poetry. Cross-genre. There are probably entire categories of visual writing that we’ve never heard of. We want those too. We’re after literary-quality writing with a visual component. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or some combination thereof. As always, wow us. Thrill us. Never bore us. We’re eager to read your best. Deadline 9/15.
Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/themed-submissions-visual-narrative
Submissions should be no more than thirty-five (35) lines; up to four (4) poems per submission.
Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
This link is for Sequestrum subscribers only. Learn how to become a subscriber here.
Prose Guidelines:
Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter. If this is a themed submission, please indicate it as such. Submissions should generally not exceed 10,000 words. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
Subscriber Submissions Guidelines:
- Subscribers are allowed one free submission pending at any given time, across all genres. We will notify you once we have reached a decision on your work via Submittable. By submitting only your best, most polished work, writers help ensure our response times remain reasonable.
- Submissions will be considered for general or themed publication at our usual paying rates.
- Below the cover letter, enter the email/login name associated with your membership so we can to confirm status as a current subscriber.
- All submissions must follow our general guidelines.
This link is for Sequestrum subscribers only. Learn how to become a subscriber here.
Poetry Guidelines:
Submissions should be no more than thirty-five (35) lines; up to four (4) poems per submission. If this is a themed submission, please indicate it as such. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Include a brief bio in your cover letter to be used as a contributor bio in the event of publication. Your name should not appear anywhere on your manuscript. No previously-published material.
Subscriber Submissions Guidelines:
- Subscribers are allowed one free submission pending at any given time, across all genres. We will notify you once we have reached a decision on your work via Submittable. By submitting only your best, most polished work, writers help ensure our response times remain reasonable.
- Submissions will be considered for general or themed publication at our usual paying rates.
- Below the cover letter, enter the email/login name associated with your membership so we can to confirm status as a current subscriber.
- All submissions must follow our general guidelines.
Submissions are considered for stand-alone publications (graphic narratives) or as issue cover art. Artists retain all rights to their works. Response time for artwork can be longer. Featured pieces of new, upcoming, and established artists reach a large, supportive audience.