Lake Effect
Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Last updatedLake Effect is an international literary journal seeking literary fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction from both established and emerging writers.
Response time info: generally replied to within four months of their receipt (possibly longer over the summer)
Read the full guidelines at lakeeffectaninternationalliteraryjournal.submittable.com↗Submission calls
Lake Effect is looking for literary fiction that emerges from character and language as much as from plot; does not, in general, publish genre fiction; query first if longer than fifteen pages.
Lake Effect is looking for well-crafted and lively literary or personal essays (not literary criticism, but essays engaging literature in the context of a lived life are welcome); query first if longer than fifteen pages.
Lake Effect seeks poems with original voice and multi-layered, evocative images; no length limit per poem, but send no more than four poems at a time.
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