ABOUT US
Founded in 2015, JuxtaProse is an annual online literary journal that publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography from around the world. We pride ourselves on providing a venue where emerging writers can find a voice alongside some of the most respected names in world literature. Recent contributors include Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Dunn, Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis, and previously unpublished writer Emma Binder. JuxtaProse currently reaches over 5,000 readers each month and accepts general submissions year round.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts should be double spaced. Manuscripts should include your contact information in the upper left hand corner of the first page. Our editors make a sincere effort to respond to all submissions within eight to twelve weeks. However, please be aware that JuxtaProse is run by a small volunteer staff and, as such, responses may occasionally take significantly longer. We acquire first North American serial rights upon acceptance. This includes the right to publish your material on our website as well as a future print edition, to be released within one year of the date of your acceptance letter. The author retains all other rights. We do not accept reprints of any kind. Please avoid sending us works in progress, as we will not consider revisions or additional edits once a piece has been submitted to us.
Please note that we no longer accept e-mail submissions. Our old submisssions@juxtaproemagazine.org address is inactive, and any submissions sent to it will remain unread. Instead, all submissions should come via our Submittable page. The small submission fee it charges allows us to provide a modest honorarium to the writers whose work we publish.
FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION
Submit one piece between 500 and 5,000 words. Since we consider multiple genres of writing, each of which have different editorial teams, please format the title of your submission as “GENRE – TITLE OF SUBMISSION” (e.g. “FICTION – MY STORY”). Submissions which do not follow this format may not reach the appropriate editors and may be deleted unread.
With fiction, our emphasis is in literary fiction, however we will consider any work that is of sufficient quality, regardless of genre. However, we are typically not interested in stories written in the second person. With nonfiction, our editors are drawn to a variety of formats, although most drawn to those rooted in personal experience. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please notify us immediately via Submittable’s “Withdraw” option if your work is submitted elsewhere (for poetry, please use the “Note” feature to specify which poems have been accepted elsewhere). It is not necessary to notify us via e-mail. We publish approximately 1% of the fiction submissions we receive, and 3% of the nonfiction submissions.
POETRY
Submit up to five poems. Since we consider multiple genres of writing, please format the title of your submission as the number of poems you are submitting (e.g. “3 POEMS”). Individual poems should be no more than two pages. Please attach each poem as a separate file and include your contact info on the first page of each one.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but if an individual poem is accepted elsewhere please use the “Note” function on submittable to tell us which pieces are and are not available. If all of the poems becomes unavailable, please use the “Withdraw” function to remove the submission from consideration. In either instance, it is not necessary to notify us via e-mail. We publish less than 1% of the poetry submissions we receive.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Except for in rare instances, JuxtaProse no longer accepts art or photography submissions.
CONTESTS
JuxtaProse sponsors annual fiction, creative nonfiction, individual poem, and poetry chapbook contests. Please refer to our contests page for more details.