AGNI

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AGNI is a literary magazine seeking distinctive fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work in English, with online submissions accepted during two annual reading periods.

Response time info: Two to four months for online submissions

Read the full guidelines at agnionline.bu.edu↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 15Fee: $3 online; free by paper mailPays: $30 per printed page for accepted prose, up to $300; translations receive 50% more.

Open to: Work must be written in English or translated into English, unpublished in English, and wholly the writer’s or translator’s own work; AI-generated work is not considered.

AGNI seeks short stories and short shorts that resist convention; it does not publish genre romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction, though work may borrow elements from them. No word limit. Online submissions cost $3; paper submissions are free. Reading periods are September 1–December 15 and January 15–May 31.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 15Fee: $3 online; free by paper mailPays: $30 per printed page for accepted prose, up to $300; translations receive 50% more.

Open to: Work must be written in English or translated into English, unpublished in English, and wholly the writer’s or translator’s own work; AI-generated work is not considered.

AGNI seeks personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, and other prose that resists convention; it does not publish academic essays or purely journalistic writing. No word limit. Online submissions cost $3; paper submissions are free. Reading periods are September 1–December 15 and January 15–May 31.

otherLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 15Fee: $3 online; free by paper mailPays: $30 per printed page for accepted prose, up to $300; translations receive 50% more.

Open to: Work must be written in English or translated into English, unpublished in English, and wholly the writer’s or translator’s own work; AI-generated work is not considered.

AGNI accepts hybrid work and considers excerpts if they read as standalone pieces. Online submissions cost $3; paper submissions are free. Reading periods are September 1–December 15 and January 15–May 31.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Dec 15Fee: $3 online; free by paper mailPays: $50 per page for accepted poetry, up to $300; translations receive 50% more.

Open to: Work must be written in English or translated into English, unpublished in English, and wholly the writer’s or translator’s own work; AI-generated work is not considered.

AGNI considers free verse, blank verse, visual, prose, shaped or concrete, formal, and structured poetry that resists convention. Submit up to five poems at a time; there is no word limit. Online submissions cost $3; paper submissions are free. Reading periods are September 1–December 15 and January 15–May 31.

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