Poetry and art inspired by the woods and what lies in its shadows.

Bracken is a literary magazine born of the love of the woods and its shadows. Bracken is green and lush, coarse and delicate, drinks from the earth, and spreads underground, more root than frond. Bracken is understory, invades, takes over, shades and protects. We seek poetry and art that will root, tender and tough, in us.

Online publications putting forward exceptional short stories for Best of the Net.

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Identifies publications that put forward outstanding online work for this respected digital anthology established in 2006.

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A comprehensive guide to journals that regularly nominate work for the Pushcart Prize.

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Bracken

General call

We feature artwork that fits our visual and content aesthetic. We are interested in all visual art forms that could be showcased successfully on the web, including photography, moving image, installations, site-specific installations, wearable art, short dance videos, and new media. 
We prefer portfolio links over individual piece submissions. If one of your pieces catches our eye as a cover potential, we'll be in touch to discuss and negotiate the rate.
Payment: We pay $30 per art feature, which may consist of a single or multiple pieces.

Visual Art submission

We consider any style of poetry, although we confess our bias toward the lyrical. We look for natural-world elements in the poems we receive. Send us poems through which we can rediscover that we are nature—poems that slip in under our skin and change the light around us. 
If the $3.00 submission fee is prohibitive for you, please email us 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.
Requirements:

  up to 5 poems per submission in a single Word document
  no more than 100 lines per poem (we prefer shorter pieces)
  original and unpublished
  no multiple submissions
  simultaneous submissions okay (and you can withdraw individual poems by leaving us a note in Submittable)

Payment: We pay $30/poem.

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