If you're interested in having your literary works published by RiddleBird Magazine, follow the guidelines.
RiddleBird Magazine
If you're interested in having your literary works published by RiddleBird Magazine, follow the guidelines.
Literary Magazines, Journals, Anthologies
RiddleBird Submission Guidelines:
We are happy to publish work that celebrates the joy of reading and writing across different reading preferences. The marketplace can divide us based on our reading tastes, but riddlebird can strive to make a space for more diversity (of interest, of authorship, of meaning).
Please carefully read what we are looking for below, and follow the submission guidelines.
We are interested in three categories.
Literary Fiction — Our favorite writers include authors like George Saunders, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and E.C. Osondu.
Personal Essays — We like a memoirist’s essay that has achieved some distance and allows us to share a newfound insight. Think of Vivian Gornick’s idea of “the situation and the story.”
Literary Genre Fiction — Our mission is to include a place for well-written genre-writing, especially mysteries, sci-fi and westerns. To take westerns as an example, think of Charles Portis
Riddlebird is not interested in publishing work that is demeaning. Racist, homophobic, or xenophobic prose will be promptly rejected.
We will publish 6 pieces online twice a year (Jan and July) and pay authors $100 for contributions.
Our hope is to publish a hardcopy of all 12 pieces once a year. We will select 6 pieces a year to submit on your behalf to the Pushcart Prize.
We do accept simultaneous submissions; please inform us if (happily!) your work is accepted somewhere else.
Limit one piece of up to 6,000 words to riddlebirdmag@gmail.com
Please send your file in .PDF or Word Doc. If you absolutely cannot use these programs, send a neat version in the body of an e-mail.
Please include your name, including contact information, and your title.
Include a very brief cover letter in the body of the e-mail. Include a short bio in third person, and do not send previously published work.
Our goal is to celebrate your work. Please follow us on Twitter. @riddlebirdmag. We will share author bios and links to your work upon publication. We request North American Serial Rights which then revert to you.
riddlebird
We publish online bi-annually January/July.
All authors are paid for their contributions.
We request North American Serial Rights which then revert to authors.
riddlebirdmag@gmail.com
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