Grub Street Literary Magazine

SUBMISSIONS FOR VOL.74 ARE NOW CLOSED

We are reading all submissions and will be updating writers as decisions are made. Thank you for your patience! We plan to have all decisions made and sent out by early April. We will re-open for Volume 75 some time this summer. 

SEND US YOUR BEST POEMS, FICTION, CREATIVE NON-FICTION, AND ART

Our staff is currently reading submissions for Volume 74 (to be published May 2025). The submission deadline is December 15, 2024. During our reading period, submissions are evaluated on a rolling basis. If you submitted when our reading period was closed (May 2024 - August 2024), your work may not be considered, and we encourage you to resubmit. (For submissions to the High School Contest, please scroll to the bottom of this page for details). If your submission has been accepted elsewhere, please withdraw your submission. 

Editor's Statement

Send in your best work. 

At Grub Street we look for works of outstanding literary merit that are in conversation with the current cultural and literary landscape. We accept submissions in the usual genres (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and visual art), as well as submissions that are less easily categorized, including, for example, essays, graphic stories, comics, one-act plays, collage, and visual poetry. 

We read all submissions with care and attention, and we read blind to ensure a fair and impartial selection process. We welcome established and new writers, and we hope to create a diverse journal in which we showcase the voices of underrepresented and undiscovered writers alongside more established writers. 

Please follow the submission guidelines, below, to ensure that your work receives a place in our review process.

PDFs of our back issues can be found on our website: wp.towson.edu/grubstreetlitmag.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Only previously unpublished works (either in print or online) will be considered for publication. Please submit one work per file. Do not submit group submissions (i.e., if you submit five poems, do not put all five poems into one document. Please create five separate documents for each poem.) We read submissions in a blind-review process, so please remove all identifying information from your works. (i.e; title pages, headers, document file titles, etc) Genre-specific guidelines are as follows:

• Poetry: Up to five poems may be submitted for consideration. Please submit one poem per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files only.
• Fiction: Up to two pieces of fiction may be submitted for consideration. Please submit one prose piece per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files only. Please keep each fiction submission under 6,000 words.
• Creative Nonfiction: Up to two pieces of creative nonfiction may be submitted for consideration. Please submit one prose piece per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files only. Please keep each nonfiction submission under 6,000 words.
• Visual Art: Up to five works of visual art may be submitted for consideration. Visual art should be at least 4x6 inches and sent as a .png, .raw or high-quality .jpeg file with at least 300dpi and a size of at least 1MB. 
  

If you have questions or concerns about these guidelines that are not addressed in our FAQ, please contact us via email at grubstreet1952@gmail.com.

High School Contest

Maryland high school students: Please send your best poetry, fiction, and/or creative non-fiction to grubstreet1952@gmail.com. Put "HIGH SCHOOL CONTEST" in the subject line. You may submit in multiple categories. You may submit up to five poems, three stories, and three pieces of creative non-fiction. Stories and essays should not exceed 6,000 words. (You may also submit to the journal proper, regardless of submitting to the contest. 

We look forward to receiving your work and wish you the best of luck in your literary and artistic endeavors.