Witness

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Witness is a literary and issue-oriented magazine publishing innovative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from emerging and established writers.

Response time info: Poetry: within four months; fiction and nonfiction: six months or longer, with inquiries permitted after ten months.

Read the full guidelines at witness.blackmountaininstitute.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Suggested reading fee: $3 for general submission.Pays: $150 per published piece of prose.

Open to: Previously published authors must wait two years after publication; current or former UNLV MFA/PhD students, faculty, staff, employees, other university or Black Mountain Institute affiliates, and past or current Witness readers must wait two years after graduation or employment.

General submissions open in September for the Spring themed print issue and in February for the Fall/Winter online issue; dates may vary and windows may close early. Fiction should be 7,000 words or less. Response times may be six months or longer.

flashLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Suggested reading fee: $3 for general submission.Pays: $150 per published piece of prose.

Open to: Previously published authors must wait two years after publication; current or former UNLV MFA/PhD students, faculty, staff, employees, other university or Black Mountain Institute affiliates, and past or current Witness readers must wait two years after graduation or employment.

Up to three flash fiction pieces of 1,200 words or less each may be submitted as one submission; general submissions open in September and February, with dates subject to variation and early closure.

nonfictionLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Suggested reading fee: $3 for general submission.Pays: $150 per published piece of prose.

Open to: Previously published authors must wait two years after publication; current or former UNLV MFA/PhD students, faculty, staff, employees, other university or Black Mountain Institute affiliates, and past or current Witness readers must wait two years after graduation or employment.

General submissions open in September for the Spring themed print issue and in February for the Fall/Winter online issue; dates may vary and windows may close early. Nonfiction should be 7,000 words or less. Response times may be six months or longer.

poetryLiteraryEligibility requirementsCloses Sep 30Suggested reading fee: $3 for general submission.Pays: $75 per published piece of poetry.

Open to: Previously published authors must wait two years after publication; current or former UNLV MFA/PhD students, faculty, staff, employees, other university or Black Mountain Institute affiliates, and past or current Witness readers must wait two years after graduation or employment.

General submissions open in September for the Spring themed print issue and in February for the Fall/Winter online issue; dates may vary and windows may close early. Up to five poems may be submitted as one submission. Poetry responses are typically within four months.

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