Thank you for your interest in Inlandia!
- Submissions to Inlandia: A Literary Journey, Inlandia's online literary journal. We publish two issues per year: Fall is an open issue for all submitters. Spring is an all-teen issue guest-edited and featuring exclusively work by teens.
- Writing from Inlandia, the annual anthology of creative work produced by the Inlandia Creative Writing Workshops.
- Inlandia Books - Literary and Community for book manuscripts. (Closed to submissions until 2024 unless previously invited to revise and resubmit.)
- The Hillary Gravendyk Prize (Opens February 1 and closes April 30 annually.)
- The Eliud Martínez Prize (Opens November 1 and closes January 31 annually.)
And other projects as they come up.
Each category has a separate review period & guidelines. If you do not see it as an open category below, then it is currently closed. Please check back. Before submitting, please be familiar with the guidelines.
By your submission you are acknowledging that you have read through our guidelines carefully and agree to all terms.
Call for submissions for Inlandia: A Literary Journey
Now accepting art, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the Fall 2024 issue of Inlandia Institute’s online literary journal, Inlandia: A Literary Journey.
Deadline and Category Caps
The window opens September 1, 2024, and closes September 30, 2024, at midnight PDT. Please note that this issue we are capping submissions by category at 100 for art, 50 for creative nonfiction, 50 for fiction, and 100 for poetry.
Guidelines for submissions
- Editors evaluate only anonymous submissions. Please remove your name from the submission, including the file name.
- For art you may submit 1–5 digital photographs and/or digital images of work each in its own submission including but not limited to drawings, paintings, sculptures, fiber art, and comics. We seek art that complements the written pieces and pulls the journal together as a cohesive whole.
- For creative nonfiction there is no minimum word count. Essays, memoir, and narrative nonfiction should not exceed 3,000 words. Any topic is okay.
- For fiction there is no minimum word count. Stories should not exceed 5,000 words. Any genre is okay. If you are submitting an excerpt from a larger work, it must be self-contained with a beginning, middle, and end.
- For poetry you may submit 1–5 poems each in its own submission. Each poem should not exceed 100 lines.
- You may submit in more than one category of work, but please do not submit more than once for any category, except art and poetry (see above).
FAQs
Q: Where do I submit my work?
We accept submissions only through the Inlandia Institute’s Submittable portal. We will not consider mailed or emailed submissions.
Q: Is there a submission fee?
No! Submissions are free.
Q: How should I format my written work?
- Font and Point Size: something readable such as 12-point Times New Roman.
- Spacing: double space your work unless it is poetry, which should be single spaced.
- Margins: 1 inch on all sides.
- Header: include the title of your work and, if more than one page long, page numbers.
- Please remove your name from the submission AND the file name.
Q: Anything else to submit?
We request a short biographical statement (up to 75 words) written in the third person (she/he/they).
Q: Are there types of work you don’t want?
- Unfortunately, at this time we cannot properly evaluate submissions written completely in a language other than English with the exception of translations (see Additional information below). For case-by-case clarifications, please email the managing editor.
- We do not want hate speech, pornographic material, or work that degrades any gender, race, religion, ability, etc. In other words, nothing demeaning to others.
- We do not want work by someone else submitted under your name. Do not plagiarize. By submitting your work, you are verifying that it is solely your creation.
Q: When will I know if my work has been accepted?
Please be patient as we read and seriously consider every submission. It may be late October before you receive a response.
Q: If my submission is accepted for publication, will my work still be mine?
Writers and artists retain rights. Please credit us if your work is republished, and be sure to let us know so we can celebrate your achievements!
Additional information
- Simultaneous submissions are okay but please withdraw any accepted work promptly.
- Previously curated works — in books, magazines, journals, anthologies, online or in print — by creators who have republication rights are okay to submit with proper attribution/credit.
- Translations are okay to submit with permission of both author and translator. Please include the English as well as native-language version of the work along with third-person bios for both author and translator.
- AI-generated or assisted work is only allowed if accompanied by an artist/writer statement about process.