Gulf Coast

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Gulf Coast is a literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, reviews, interviews, and online exclusives.

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryCloses Mar 1, 2027Fee: $3Pays: $50 per .doc or PDF page

Regular print submissions are accepted from September 1 through March 1. Submit previously unpublished work; prose must be 7,000 words or fewer. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but multiple submissions in the same genre are not accepted.

nonfictionLiteraryCloses Mar 1, 2027Fee: $3Pays: $50 per .doc or PDF page

Regular print submissions are accepted from September 1 through March 1. Submit previously unpublished prose of 7,000 words or fewer. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but multiple submissions in the same genre are not accepted.

poetryLiteraryCloses Mar 1, 2027Fee: $3Pays: $50 per .doc or PDF page

Regular print submissions are accepted from September 1 through March 1. Submit previously unpublished work; up to five poems per submission are allowed. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but multiple submissions in the same genre are not accepted.

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Online Exclusives accept prose year-round status is not stated. Prose is typed, double-spaced, and paginated; submissions over 3,000 words are less likely to be accepted.

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Online Exclusives accept poetry; up to five poems per submission are allowed. The submission schedule is not stated.

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