Submission Guidelines
We are no longer accepting submissions for Issue V. Please check back in during our next reading period in December!
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General Policies:
Poetry:
Prose (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction):
Art and Photography:
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- Simultaneous Submissions: Sandpiper welcomes simultaneous submissions. That said, we ask that you {1} add a note in your submission listing the piece(s) in your submission that are pending elsewhere, and {2} notify Sandpiper in a timely manner of your acceptance elsewhere or withdraw your other submission promptly should your work be accepted first here.
- Reprints: At the moment, we do not consider work that has previously appeared in other publications, but work that has only appeared on a personal blog/website is acceptable.
- Copyright & Ownership: We reserve First North American Serial Rights and the right to reprint your work in any future anthologies. After publication in Sandpiper, rights revert back to you, but please credit Sandpiper as the first publication in which your accepted pieces have appeared.
- Fees: All submissions are free of charge.
Poetry:
- Send any number of pieces in separate Word Documents (titled "Name - Title of Piece")
- Format: Size 12, Times New Roman, single-spaced
Prose (Fiction and Creative Nonfiction):
- Send up to 3 pieces in separate Word Documents (titled "Name - Title of Piece")
- Length: Please keep flash fiction under 1,000 words, and short fiction and creative nonfiction under 8,000 words.
- Format: Size 12, Times New Roman, single-spaced
Art and Photography:
- Send any number of pieces in separate PDF files (titled "Name - Title of Piece")
Email us with questions, suggestions, or comments here.