Arkana

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, other work, and poetry.

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Arkana is a literary magazine seeking thought-provoking and literary work across fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, scripts, translation, hybrid forms, illustrated narrative, and art, with a focus on underrepresented voices.

Response time info: longer response times over the summer

Read the full guidelines at arkanamag.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: $50 Editors’ Choice Award; $50 Arkansas Writers Editors’ Prize for eligible writers

Open to: Writers unaffiliated with the University of Central Arkansas; graduates must wait five years before submitting.

Up to 4,000 words of unpublished prose (fiction), double-spaced, no more than 20 pages per submission; seeking stories that share new perspectives, evoke visceral reactions, and seek deeper emotional truth; limit 1 submission per genre until response; simultaneous submissions welcome.

nonfictionEligibility requirementsPays: $50 Editors’ Choice Award; $50 Arkansas Writers Editors’ Prize for eligible writers

Open to: Writers unaffiliated with the University of Central Arkansas; graduates must wait five years before submitting.

Up to 4,000 words of unpublished creative nonfiction, double-spaced, no more than 20 pages per submission; seeking personal essays, investigations, and counternarratives with strong voice and local color; limit 1 submission per genre until response; simultaneous submissions welcome.

otherEligibility requirementsPays: $50 Editors’ Choice Award; $50 Arkansas Writers Editors’ Prize for eligible writers

Open to: Writers unaffiliated with the University of Central Arkansas; graduates must wait five years before submitting.

Scripts for stage or screen (e.g., 10-minute plays, screenplay scenes), illustrated narrative (comics, poetry comics, fiction/nonfiction with visuals), hybrid work that breaks genre/form boundaries, and translation (all forms, preference for poetry, especially authors not previously translated); up

poetryEligibility requirementsPays: $50 Editors’ Choice Award; $50 Arkansas Writers Editors’ Prize for eligible writers

Open to: Writers unaffiliated with the University of Central Arkansas; graduates must wait five years before submitting.

Up to three unpublished poems per submission; seeking poetry with beauty, music, and personal interpretation of form; limit 1 submission per genre until response; simultaneous submissions welcome.

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