All submissions should be original, unpublished work.

• Submissions accepted year round, but know that reading periods are generally closed from 2 to 3 months following submission deadlines.
• Manuscripts must be typed or printed in proper format on white paper, in English, one side only, double-spaced for prose. Cover letters should be brief.

• Fiction and creative nonfiction manuscripts must be limited to 5,000 words. Novel and memoir excerpts are acceptable.

• Poetry submissions will be limited to up to five poems, twenty pages total.

• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable. Please notify us immediately if something has been accepted elsewhere.

• Entrants may submit only one submission per category until you have been notified of acceptance or non-acceptance of submitted material.

• Please note genre of your submission in the cover letter (fiction, poetry or CNF).

• Please include a SASE for results. Manuscripts will be recycled and will not be returned.

• Payment is in 1 copy of the issue in which the author's work appears.

                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                           *** ATTENTION!!! ***

Submissions accepted year-round; reading period for Spring 2010 has now begun and ends Jan. 31.

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                                                                                            Submissions should be sent via snail mail to:

                                               Poetry or  Fiction/CNF Editor

                                               Mythium Literary Journal
                                               1428 N. Forbes Rd
                                               Lexington, Ky 40511

address manuscripts appropriately with attn: poetry editor for poetry submissions or attn: fiction editor for fiction/CNF manuscripts.

Emailed submissions are now being accepted as doc/text files only!

                                    Do not send manuscripts or poems in the body of your email! 

Poets: it at all possible, please provide each poetry submission as a separate text file instead of formatting several poems all within one single file.

                                      

                 

Mail all electronic poetry submissions to poetry@mythiumlitmag.com 

 

Mail all electronic fiction/creative non-fiction submissions to fiction@mythiumlitmag.com

Please expect 2 to 3 months, at least, for the evaluation of your manuscript;

notification will be emailed to you when the reviewing process is complete.

Direct all other questions/non-submissions to

  editor@mythiumlitmag.com