Embark

Open now for fiction.

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Embark is a literary journal publishing the openings of unpublished novels in any genre, accepting submissions year-round with no fee or payment.

Response time info: within a month after the submission deadline for each issue

Read the full guidelines at embarkliteraryjournal.com↗

Submission calls

fictionCloses Sep 1

Opening of an unpublished novel (minimum 2,500 words, maximum 4,000 words) plus an Author’s Statement (250-500 words); any genre; novel must be unpublished and at least 50,000 words in total; submissions received by September 1, 2026, considered for Issue 25 (October 2026); no memoirs or nonfiction;

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