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A literary journal accepting poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art! We love works of any kind. You won’t find a strict, gatekeeping submission guideline in these waters. Writing and reading is for peace, not stress. 

Our editors met in undergrad poetry workshops and loved each other so much we had to start a flourishing project together. Our editors were unified by the beautiful discovery of creative writing’s impact on all of our souls. 

After being separated by space and time and forking paths, we woke up one morning and started this journal to be able to read and enjoy writing and art together again.

We hope that you enjoy immersing yourself in our dam website. Take a load off, throw that tree you’ve been gnawing to the side, and swim in these waterways of words from around the world.

The beaver is a keystone species that shaped the United States water systems and kept the healthy flow of biodiverse ecosystems. 

We strive to follow the beaver’s example in enhancing interconnectivity and diverse community through creative mediums.



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Beaver Magazine

Submit your fiction or nonfiction work here for our next online issue!
 
You're welcome to send up to three flash pieces of 1,000 words or less. Please include all work in a single document with each new piece beginning on a new page. Creative nonfiction can include personal, research, or lyric essays as well as memoirs. Fiction can be of any genre or style. Please clearly state if you are submitting fiction or nonfiction in your cover letter and include page numbers and a word count on the document.
 
We want work that's fluid and funky, connected and coiling. We love work about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us. We want poems that pull you in and don't let go. We want a beaver dam of a piece that keeps the perfect amount of water in, prose we can build and live in for years to come. Help us form this creative landscape with your lovely words!
 
Only send unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Winter 2026 Prose

Submit your poems here for our next online issue!
 
You're welcome to send three to five poems in the same document. Please include all work in a single document with each new piece beginning on a new page. We love work that plays with traditional forms and modes. We want the lyric, the narrative, and everything in between.
 
We want work that's fluid and funky, connected and coiling. We love work about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us. We want poems that pull you in and don't let go. We want a beaver dam of a piece that keeps the perfect amount of water in, poetry we can build and live in for years to come. Help us form this creative landscape with your lovely words!
 
Only send unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Winter 2026 Poetry

Submit your hybrid work here for our next online issue!
 
You're welcome to send up to five different hybrid pieces. We're open for any type of hybrid work of any length and medium. Send us anything that doesn't fit into genre guidelines, anything without boundaries, anything uncategorizable. We aren't limited in what we can publish, so send us your strangest! Your video poetry, your audio art, your latest music video... we want it all!
 
We want work that's fluid and funky, connected and coiling. We love work about how we shape the land and how the land shapes us. We want sounds that pull you in and don't let go. We want a beaver dam of a piece that keeps the perfect amount of water in, pieces we can build and live in for years to come. Help us form this creative landscape with your lovely work!
 
Only send unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please let us know if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Winter 2026 Hybrid

Submit 3-5 poems of any format, each beginning on a new page. We welcome work that plays with traditional forms and modes, including lyric, narrative, and everything in between. Please do not send whole collections.

Poetry Submission

Submit up to 3 flash pieces of no more than 1,000 words each. Creative nonfiction can include personal, research, or lyric essays as well as memoirs. Fiction can be of any genre or style. Hybrid work is also accepted. Please clearly state the prose genre in your cover letter and include page numbers and word count on the document.

Prose Submission - Fiction

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Submission - Hybrid

Submit up to 10 pieces of visual art of any media or style, either in PDF format or as individual JPEGs. Please submit high resolution work for best reproduction quality if published.

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