PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE SUBMITTING.
Fiction and Poetry submissions are CLOSED until September 1st, 2012.
Non-Fiction submissions are welcome.
Please visit our non-fiction guidelines by clicking on the prose guideline link below.
We are looking for creative non-fiction that explores/explodes traditional memoir
and essay forms. Hybrid-texts are always welcome.
CONTESTS
Please visit the following pages for more information about these contests.
Quarterly West's Undergraduate Contest
Quarterly West's Novella Contest
ONLINE SUBMISSIONS
Quarterly West now accepts online submissions only. We will continue to accept simultaneous submissions, though we request that you withdraw manuscripts that have been accepted for publication elsewhere.
Prose (Fiction, Nonfiction, or Flash Fiction) Guidelines
Please do not submit more than one entry per genre at a time.
No previously published work will be considered.
Quarterly West acquires First North American Serial Rights for the work we publish. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If your work is later republished, we request you note its initial publication in Quarterly West.
We ask that former contributors wait at least one year after publication before submitting new work to Quarterly West.
