Submission Guidelines

Please read and FOLLOW our guidelines carefully (this means you need to read this entire page—all 350 words). Note that submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be discarded and will not receive a response.

We do not accept attachments, ok? We have our reasons; just don't send them.

Your submission must be accompanied by a brief cover letter (nothing fancy, no worries) and a bio of less than 50 words (we do not need to know every publication in which your work has appeared). Your bio, cover letter and submission should be contained in one email. Send up to five poems or up to two prose pieces under 2,000 words each; please note we don't accept unsolicited book reviews or interviews. We do accept simultaneous submissions but do not accept multiple submissions (that means, please send ONE submission and wait for a response before sending another).

IMPORTANT: Paste your submission into the body of an email and send to editors@crankymag.org. Write either Poetry Submission or Fiction Submission in the subject line. As stated above, we do not accept attachments; the editors will verify formatting upon acceptance. Please do not send previously published (either online or in print) work. We do NOT accept hard copy submissions and will not read them—if you have a compelling reason why you want to mail your submission, please send us an email first.

We entreat you: be your own best friend and do not send a cute synopsis of your story or poems.

Our current payment is in the (meager) form of one copy of the issue in which your work appears. We buy first rights as well as the rights to use your name and the accepted work (whole or part) on our website. Beyond this use, and following publication, rights revert to the author. We ask that Cranky Literary Journal be acknowledged in any subsequent publication of the work.

The best advice we can give to potential contributors: read through an issue or two to get a sense of what we like. Pretty simple, huh?

 

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