Read CLASH!'s mission before you submit to ensure your manuscript aligns with the mission and vision to ensure your manuscript aligns with our goals.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for manuscripts that celebrate the clash of identities, cultures, and beliefs within each of us. We want work that pushes the boundaries—and even destroys them. That finds joy and power in liminality and ambiguity. That dismantles and disrupts traditional narratives. That creates a refuge for those who don’t fit into the mainstream. That finds beauty in the strange. We want to hear voices that are authentic, bold, brash, even risky. Give us your work that opens a window into your experience, and invites others inside, too. Let it clash! Let yourself clash!
We do not tolerate work that harbors racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, hateful, or bigoted sentiments.
- Please submit a cover letter with a brief description of the work to be submitted, a brief biographical note, and contact information. Please include your social media handles.
- We intend to publish a series of six chapbooks of 14 to 32 pages.
- Accepted manuscripts will be published in 2025.
- We are accepting manuscripts of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, microgenres, lyric essays, hybrid genres, and visual art. We’re all about breaking boundaries, so if you don’t see a genre or combination listed here, please still send us your manuscript with a short description of the genre or combination with which you are working.
- At the beginning of your manuscript, please include a table of contents, and an acknowledgement page listing poems that appear elsewhere, such as in journals, magazines, chapbooks, or anthologies, online or in print. Please begin each new piece on a new page with a title.
- Previously published collections are not accepted, including self-published collections as e-books or in print.
- Please submit your manuscript to us in .pdf or .docx format.
- Allow a minimum of three months for a reply.
- Author receives contract, 15 author books + 10% royalty on print sales.
- No submission fee!
- Simultaneous submissions are permitted. If your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please officially withdraw it using the Submittable system.
PLEASE READ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. THESE ARE FOR ALL GENRES.
- If selected your manuscript will be published in the Fall 2025 or Spring of 2026 to give ample time to our editorial team to read and discuss the breath of your work, engage and collaborate with you in the editorial process, and leave time for pre-marketing and publicity.
- We encourage you to read our mission at our ABOUT page before you submit.
- Please submit a cover letter with a brief description of the work to be submitted, a brief biographical note, and contact information. Please include your social media handles.
- Simultaneous submissions are permitted. If your manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere, please officially withdraw it using the Submittable system.
- Allow a minimum of four to five months for reply AFTER submission close in June. We have a small editorial staff dedicated to reading each manuscript submitted.
- Illustrations and photography are discouraged.
- Previously published collections are not accepted, including self-published collections as e-books or in print.
- Please format your manuscript using 12 pt, Times New Roman, double space for fiction and nonfiction. One poem per page. Include title page with your name and contact information.
POETRY SUBMISSIONS
- Chapbooks are accepted. Manuscripts should be between 24-40 pages.
- Full-length manuscripts should be between 48 to 84 pages.
- Translations are accepted. Please add translator's biographical note in your cover letter.
- At the beginning of your manuscript, please include a table of contents, and an acknowledgement page listing poems that appear elsewhere, such as in journals, magazines, chapbooks, or anthologies, online or in print.
FICTION. AT THIS TIME WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING NOVELLA.
- Manuscripts should be between 70-160 pages, between 17,500 and 40,000 words.
- At the beginning of your manuscript, please include a table of contents, and an acknowledgement page listing excerpts that appear elsewhere, such as in journals, magazines, chapbooks, or anthologies, online or in print.
- Translations are welcome.
NONFICTION
- Nonfiction manuscripts are accepted as memoir, essays, creative-nonfiction for trade publication. We do not accept scholarly work.
- Manuscripts should be between 100-250 pages.
- At the beginning of your manuscript, please include a table of contents, and an acknowledgement page listing poems that appear elsewhere, such as in journals, magazines, chapbooks, or anthologies, online or in print.