Crazyhorse. Fiction, Poetry & Non-fiction.

Submission Guidelines
Crazyhorse welcomes general submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from September 1st through May 31st, with the exception of the month of January, during which we only accept entries for the Crazyhorse Prizes.
We ask that submissions of fiction and nonfiction be somewhere between 2,500 and 8,500 words in length. Exceptional work that falls outside this range has found a home in Crazyhorse in the past, but it is an unusual occurrence. For poetry, please submit a set of 3-5 poems. More specific guidelines for each genre can be found below.
We are happy to consider simultaneous submissions, so long as you withdraw your work from consideration if it has been accepted elsewhere. Our response time is typically 10-16 weeks.Submit NOW

Fiction
Crazyhorse is open to all narrative styles and forms, and are always on the lookout for something we haven’t seen before. Send a story we won’t be able to forget.
Recent fiction contributors include: Michael Kardos, Katherine L. Hester, Wayne Harrison, Amina Gautier, Molly McNett, Karen Brown, Caitlin Horrocks, Christine Sneed, Leslee Becker, Matthew Vollono, Wayne Harrison, George Singleton, Kelly Luce, and Dan Pinkerton.Submit Fiction

Poetry
Crazyhorse aims to publish work that reflects the multiple poetries of the twenty-first century. While our taste represents a wide range of aesthetics, from poets at all stages of their writing careers, we read with a discerning eye for poems that demonstrate a rhetorical and formal intelligence—that is, poems that know why they are written in the manner that they are. We seek poems that exhibit how content works symbiotically with form, evidenced in an intentional art of the poetic line or in poems that employ or stretch lyric modes. Along with this, poems that capture our attention enact the lyric utterance through musical textures, tone of voice, vivid language, reticence, and skillful syntax. For us, overall, the best poems do not idly tell the reader how to feel or think, they engender feeling and thought in the reader.
Recent poets include: Monica Berlin, Marianne Boruch, Carolina Ebeid, Alice Fulton, Sarah Gridley, Cynthia Hogue, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Alex Lemon, Edward Mayes, Lo Kwa Mei-en, Wayne Miller, Donald Platt, Mary Ann Samyn, Joshua Ware, and Martha Zweig.Submit Poetry

Nonfiction
Crazyhorse publishes four to six essays each year, so we call for the very best writing, period. We believe literary nonfiction can take any form, from the letter to the list, from the biography to the memoir, from the journal to the obituary. All we call for is precision of word and vision, and the the truth of the matter be the flag of the day.
Recent nonfiction contributors include: Douglas Whynott, Elizabeth Kalman, Aaron Gwyn, Lia Purpura, Peter Stine, M. Owens, Steven Schwartz, Katharine Haake, Nancy McCabe, Brandon Davis Jennings, and Joelle Fraser.Submit Nonfiction

Publication Rights and Author Payment
Crazyhorse acquires First North American Serial Rights to published works, which means that copyright for any works published in Crazyhorse revert to the author upon publication. As part of the journal’s publication contract, we request your permission to feature published works or excerpts on Crazyhorse‘s website and in its advertising.
Payment for accepted work: $20 per page of layout with a maximum $200 payment.
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