Common House Magazine

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Common House Magazine is a volunteer-run literary magazine accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other written work from writers worldwide.

Response time info: 1–4 months

Read the full guidelines at commonhousemag.com↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryFantasyMysteryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Pays: No monetary compensation is currently available for seasonal-issue contributors.

Open to: Anyone anywhere in the world may submit, except writers published in a Common House issue within the same year; up to a quarter of each issue is reserved exclusively for uOttawa students.

Fall submissions are open through November 30. Submit one prose work up to 3,000 words or 2–3 flash pieces up to 1,000 words each; genre fiction is welcome, though the magazine generally leans literary.

flashLiteraryFantasyMysteryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Pays: No monetary compensation is currently available for seasonal-issue contributors.

Open to: Anyone anywhere in the world may submit, except writers published in a Common House issue within the same year; up to a quarter of each issue is reserved exclusively for uOttawa students.

Fall submissions are open through November 30. Submit 2–3 flash pieces up to 1,000 words each.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Pays: No monetary compensation is currently available for seasonal-issue contributors.

Open to: Anyone anywhere in the world may submit, except writers published in a Common House issue within the same year; up to a quarter of each issue is reserved exclusively for uOttawa students.

Fall submissions are open through November 30. Submit one prose work up to 3,000 words; the magazine lists creative nonfiction among its main genres.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Nov 30Pays: No monetary compensation is currently available for seasonal-issue contributors.

Open to: Anyone anywhere in the world may submit, except writers published in a Common House issue within the same year; up to a quarter of each issue is reserved exclusively for uOttawa students.

Fall submissions are open through November 30. Submit up to five poems.

fictionLiteraryFantasyMysteryOpens Dec 1

Winter submissions run from December 1 to March 31. Submit one prose work up to 3,000 words or 2–3 flash pieces up to 1,000 words each; genre fiction is welcome, though the magazine generally leans literary.

flashLiteraryFantasyMysteryOpens Dec 1

Winter submissions run from December 1 to March 31. Submit 2–3 flash pieces up to 1,000 words each.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Dec 1

Winter submissions run from December 1 to March 31. Submit one prose work up to 3,000 words; the magazine lists creative nonfiction among its main genres.

poetryLiteraryOpens Dec 1

Winter submissions run from December 1 to March 31. Submit up to five poems.

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