Euphony welcomes submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and creative non-fiction. Nearly all of our writing comes from outside the University of Chicago community, by first-time and professional authors from around the country and the world—and everything in between.
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should be sent to euphonyjournal@gmail.com.
We no longer accept print submissions. All previous print submissions for which you have not received a response may be resubmitted per the electronic submission guidelines.
- In the subject heading of your email, clearly state the genre of the work (poetry or prose) and your name. This ensures that your work is properly accounted for in our system.
- Depending on the genre of your piece, address your email to Eliot Aguera y Arcas and Kiran Collins (poetry) or Katherine Chen and Juliette Shapiro (prose). Please double check that the editor’s name is spelled correctly. Copying, pasting, and clearing the formatting of a name always works.
- Attach your submission in a file compatible with Microsoft Word or a basic text editor—not in the body of the email—so the formatting of your work is preserved. .doc files are strongly, though not exclusively, preferred to .docx or PDFs.
- Provide a valid email address that is checked regularly so we can contact you on the status of your work: We will use your email address to contact you unless requested otherwise. If you do not have an email address, a phone number is also acceptable.
- Please type your work and number the pages. There are no strict length or genre requirements, though you may wish to familiarize yourself with what we publish; besides our online content, our print issues are available as PDFs here.
- You may include a brief biographical note in your submission (no more than four or five lines) if you would like one to appear in the journal. Notes may be slightly edited for formatting reasons.
- We accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is published elsewhere, please notify us immediately so we can remove your submission from our queue.
Accepted contributors will receive two complimentary copies of the issue by mail. Alternatively, your piece may be selected to appear exclusively on our website; we will notify you in this case for your permission. The print issue is permanently archived online, but both print and online rights revert to authors upon publication. If you wish to reprint something that has previously appeared in Euphony Journal (either in print or online), we ask that you credit the author and Euphony Journal as its first publication.
FAQ
Q: When can I expect to hear back about my submission?
Our reading period is from October to June, though you may send submissions year-round. We aim to respond to submissions within three months of receiving them (for submissions not sent during our reading period, this means three months pending the start of our review.). We appreciate your patience, as we take care to thoroughly consider each piece through a rigorous three-stage selection process. Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, we are unable to respond to submissions that have not been accepted.
Q: How much work can I submit?
We ask that you submit no more than five poems per submission. While we have no strict limit on prose length, you can familiarize yourself with the lengths of the stories we usually publish on our website.
Q: What do you accept?
Euphony welcomes submissions of unpublished poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and creative non-fiction. We no longer accept plays. We also do not accept book-length manuscripts, including poetry manuscripts. Please note that Euphony does not accept AI-generated work of any kind.
Q: Do you have a nonfiction editor?
Yes and no. Our editorial staff is led by prose editors and poetry editors. The poetry editors review poems, as well as essays and reviews dealing with poetry, while the prose editors review fiction, creative non-fiction, and plays, as well as essays and reviews dealing with fiction.
Q: Do you charge a reading fee?
No.
Q: Do you still review print submissions?
Due to the high volume of submissions that we receive, we no longer accept any print submissions. We make an exception for people with no internet access, but otherwise, please email manuscripts to euphonyjournal@gmail.com, following the submissions guidelines listed above.
For further submission issues, direct inquiries to euphonyjournal@gmail.com.
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