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     Welcome to Drunken Boat’s online submissions system. We accept submissions ONLY via this system. We do not read literary submissions sent to the editor’s address. We do not read submissions sent via snail mail. The exception is made for artwork or other media which the online system cannot support. Those can be sent to the editor@drunkenboat.com address.

Please read the following guidelines:

  • General: Please submit literary work as a Word .doc (Not .docx), ,rtf or pdf. We cannot read submissions in other formats.


  • Poetry: No more than three poems per submission. No more than two submissions per year. We are not accepting submissions in poetry at this time. Please check back later.


  • Fiction & Nonfiction: Fiction submissions are temporarily closed No more than 5000 words, unless you first query the genre editor via the above editor’s address.


  • You can expect a reply in about 3-4 months. We regret that, due to the volume of submissions, we are unable to give personalized criticism.

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Drunken Boat is looking for short shorts, very short or flash fiction pieces that meditate on the often paradoxical relationship between freedom and belonging. Writers might, for example, consider how consumer culture, dislocation or displacement, migration, interpersonal relationships, familial pulls, cultural and ethnic identification limits or expands ones notions of belonging and home. Folio will be included in Drunken Boat #12. Maximum 1000 words. Deadline: May 15th, 2010.

    Make sure to add editor AT drunkenboat.com to your Contacts or "Safe List" to ensure that our response will reach your Inbox.
     * = required field
    * first name:
    * last name:
    * email:
    company:
    * address 1:
    address 2:
    * city:
    * state: (required if U.S. address)
    * zip: (required if U.S. address)
    * country:
    phone:
    * password:
    (6 characters, letters and numbers only)
    mailing list:
    writer name:
    (if different from above)
    * submission title:
    * genre:
    * file:
    (488.77 KB max)
    comments:
    (3000 characters max)
     

    Submission Manager
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    ©2010 Devin Emke