Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. A place can surprise and delight and despair. In short, we’re expecting stories and poetry which couldn’t exist outside its “place.” Point to your passion on a map, and we’ll follow. Deadline: 9/15.

Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter.

Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/theme-place

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.

Whether that place is rural or urban, natural or constructed, real or imagined makes little difference. A place can haunt us. It can inspire us. A place can surprise and delight and despair. In short, we’re expecting stories and poetry which couldn’t exist outside its “place.” Point to your passion on a map, and we’ll follow. Deadline: 9/15.

 
Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/theme-place

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.

Families are an endless source of material. We want buried secrets. We want generational stories. We want stories of betrayal and belonging, of fractures and survival, of losing hope and redemption. At this point in literature, a “normal” family might be the strangest story of all. We want that too. We want your most ambitious writing in its most imaginative form. Whether that’s realism or fantasy, slipstream or traditional, we want to read it. Deadline: 9/15.

Please identify your work as fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter.

Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/theme-family

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.

Families are an endless source of material. We want buried secrets. We want generational stories. We want stories of betrayal and belonging, of fractures and survival, of losing hope and redemption. At this point in literature, a “normal” family might be the strangest story of all. We want that too. We want your most ambitious writing in its most imaginative form. Whether that’s realism or fantasy, slipstream or traditional, we want to read it. Deadline: 9/15.

Full guidelines here: https://www.sequestrum.org/theme-family

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.

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.

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.