CREATIVE NONFICTION submissions will be considered by our new editor, Jean-Luc Bouchard! They should be under 8,000 words. Flash is welcome. We love writing that stretches our imagination and ways of thinking, surprises, makes us laugh,  is formally interesting or challenging, defies genre, explores the confusing or uncomfortable, introduces us to new writers, thinks globally, has a distinctive voice, cares about the world, and does not assume white people are literature’s default characters.     

We’ll only consider one submission per author at a time; no multiple submissions in different genres, please! We'll also consider only one submission per reading period. In other words, if you submit a piece of nonfiction and it isn't accepted, please wait until our next reading period to submit a new piece unless you've been specifically invited to resubmit. Submitted work should be previously unpublished in English. Work simultaneously submitted elsewhere will be considered, but we ask that you withdraw the work immediately if it is accepted (and congratulations, by the way!).