A literary journal sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of New Hampshire that publishes nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art that is playful, takes risks, and harnesses energy.

barn·storm
/ˈbärnˌstôrm/

verb North American

tour rural districts giving theatrical performances, originally often in barns.

make a rapid tour of an area as part of a political campaign.

travel around giving exhibitions of flying and performing aeronautical stunts. 



Barnstorm is an online literary journal that has been in publication for more than 10 years. Housed by the University of New Hampshire MFA Program, Barnstorm was founded in 2009 by MFA students with a mission to publish the best personal and creative nonfiction essays, short stories, poetry and art.

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Please submit one piece of prose no longer than 5,000 words and wait to hear from us before submitting again.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know as soon as your work gets accepted elsewhere.
Thank you!

Fiction

Please submit no more than three poems, all contained within one 
document. List only your name with each poem. Send files
 as .doc, .docx, or .rtf.
Please wait to hear from us before submitting again and know that we will not publish the same author twice in one year.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know as soon as your work gets accepted elsewhere.
Thank you!

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Nonfiction

Barnstorm publishes art with each written piece. We publish digital representations of visual work, including photography, graphic design, drawings, illustration, animation, and high quality pictures of sculpture, mixed media, paintings. There is no fee to submit, and we retain no rights to any pieces we publish.
You may submit both art and writing to Barnstorm. We will consider any art and written submissions for their merit on their own, not as a pair. We may choose only one or the other; if both are chosen they may not necessarily be published together.
You may submit as many artworks as you like: there is no limit. Even if your work is not selected right away, it may be chosen for a future issue of the journal.

What do we mean by experimental?
We want your love poem as a Walmart shopping list. Your flash fiction as told through comic strips. Your personal essay as video game cut scenes. No rules, no expectations, no strings attached. Get weird with it! 
Submission guidelines:

  We are only accepting previously unpublished work 
  We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if you're work has been accepted elsewhere
  Please limit your work to 2000 words or less

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