Columbia Journal

How to submit

• Process

  Submittable

• Cover letter

  Your name, a short (300 words or less) bio should be included in the cover letter.

• Eligibility

  No specific eligibility requirements

• Formatting

  Poetry: Your submission should be in a DOC, DOCX, or PDF file format. Translation: Your submission should be in a DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, or RTF file format. Manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced, with numbered pages. Poetry may be single-spaced, but each poem should start on a new page.

• Author's rights

  Please note that we require writers to submit letters of consent from the original author or their estate to our email, publisher.columbia@gmail.com, alongside submissions. We will be independently contacting writers if a translated piece is accepted by our staff. You may re-publish your work that appears on the site after 60 days, and we ask that you credit us in future publications.

• Additional info

  Submissions in multiple genres are okay. Eligibility: If you have studied at or taught in the Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Program at any time in the past five years, you are ineligible to submit your original work. The best way to get a sense for what kind of work we are interested in is to read recent fiction, poetry and nonfiction on our website and to read the most recent print issues of Columbia Journal, copies of which you can order online.