Thank you for your interest in sending work to Bracken.

We are open to submissions October 1 through November 30, 2024. We look forward to reading your work!

REGULAR SUBMISSIONS

Bracken seeks poetry and art that fit the aesthetic of our journal. Bracken accepts unsolicited submissions only via Submittable. Submissions emailed to Bracken's email address will be deleted unread. We may occasionally solicit submissions from poets and artists whose work we feel would be a good fit for the journal.

Before you submit, it may help to explore our past issues. We are especially interested in creative work that helps us feel our underlying oneness with all of nature.

Bracken supports diversity and welcomes work by and about individuals of all ages, classes, disabilities, ethnicities, genders, nationalities, races, religions, and sexual orientations. 

Bracken purchases first worldwide English-language serial and electronic rights for written work. Each piece we acquire will be published on brackenmagazine.com in an electronic semiannual issue. We may also excerpt writing for promotional purposes. The author retains all other rights.

Bracken features the art we select on brackenmagazine.com and promotes the artwork on our social media channels. No other rights are requested.

We seek work that is previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are considered. We ask that you let us know promptly via Submittable if your piece has been accepted elsewhere. 

Fee to submit:

Poetry: $3 per submission. Send up to 5 poems in a single document. If the $3 submission fee is prohibitive for you, please let us know at info@brackenmagazine.com so that we can arrange for you to be able to submit without paying the fee. Please do not send your work to this email address.

Art: Art queries and cover queries are free.

We pay: $30 for each previously unpublished piece of writing, $30 per art feature (which may consist of a single or multiple images), and a negotiated rate for cover art. 

We nominate work for the Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

Submissions are currently open through November 30. If you’d like to be informed of future submission periods, we invite you to sign up for our newsletter.