The Harvard Advocate

Open now for fiction and poetry.

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The Harvard Advocate is a student-run literary magazine accepting fiction, poetry, and art submissions for its Summer 2026 issue, with rolling submissions and a focus on work from the Harvard community and select outside contributors.

Submission calls

fictionEligibility requirements

Open to: Created by members of the Harvard community, as well as outside contributors at our discretion.

Rolling submissions for the Summer 2026 issue; no minimum or maximum word count, but published work tends to be between 700 and 7000 words; open to Harvard community and outside contributors at discretion.

poetryEligibility requirements

Open to: Created by members of the Harvard community, as well as outside contributors at our discretion.

Rolling submissions for the Summer 2026 issue; no minimum or maximum word count; accepts various styles of written poetry and nontraditional formats like poetry comics; open to Harvard community and outside contributors at discretion.

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