Literary Heist

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Literary Heist is an online quarterly magazine publishing poetry, short stories, interviews, book reviews, and literary or art-related articles.

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Work must be previously unpublished, not available anywhere online, created by and owned by the submitter.

Previously unpublished short stories on any topic are accepted, provided they contain character dialogue; 300–2,000 words. Submissions must be exclusive for 14 months, after which rights revert, and may also appear in a yearly electronic book.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Work must be previously unpublished, not available anywhere online, created by and owned by the submitter.

Interviews with interesting people in the literary or art world, book reviews, and articles about literature or art are accepted; each category has a 300–2,000-word range. Submissions must be exclusive for 14 months, after which rights revert, and may also appear in a yearly electronic book.

poetryEligibility requirementsPays: No payment.

Open to: Work must be previously unpublished, not available anywhere online, created by and owned by the submitter.

Previously unpublished poetry on any topic is accepted; preferred length is 50–400 words, with 50 words not strict. Submissions must be exclusive for 14 months, after which rights revert, and may also appear in a yearly electronic book.

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