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Guidelines

"We encourage broad interpretations of what the idea or image of an empty house might evoke. This includes but is not limited to writing about home, landscape, place, memory, and of course, the atmosphere of previously inhabited spaces."

"We encourage broad interpretations of what the idea or image of an empty house might evoke. This includes but is not limited to writing about home, landscape, place, memory, and of course, the atmosphere of previously inhabited spaces."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

1 month / 30 days

Acceptance Rate

4.44%

  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    Yes

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    No

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

7 genres

Fiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

If you would like to submit a suite of up to 3 pieces shorter than 1000 words, please submit these in a single document. We’re willing to r...

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Nonfiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

If you would like to submit a suite of up to 3 pieces shorter than 1000 words, please submit these in a single document. We’re willing to r...

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Please send us 1-3 poems per submission in a single document

Photography

Min pieces: 6

Max pieces: 12

We would like to see a collection of photographs that speak to each other and express an idea as a whole. Each series will consist of a shor...

Hybrid

No specific limitations

Fiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

If you would like to submit a suite of up to 3 pieces shorter than 1000 words, please submit these in a single document. We’re willing to r...

Flash Fiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Nonfiction

Max words: 2000

Max pieces: 1

If you would like to submit a suite of up to 3 pieces shorter than 1000 words, please submit these in a single document. We’re willing to r...

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 1000

Max pieces: 3

Poetry

Max pieces: 3

Please send us 1-3 poems per submission in a single document

Photography

Min pieces: 6

Max pieces: 12

We would like to see a collection of photographs that speak to each other and express an idea as a whole. Each series will consist of a shor...

Hybrid

No specific limitations

Statistics

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Track submission

53

Total submissions tracked

30 days

Average response time

4.44%

Average acceptance rate

11 days

Fastest response time

70 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 92 days

How to submit

Process

Please send your writing in a single document together with a short cover letter and third-person biography using the "Submit" button on our website when submissions are open.

Cover letters

Include a short cover letter and third-person biography within the single document with your work.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Please send your work in a single .docx or .pdf file, double-spaced for prose, single-spaced for poetry, using Times New Roman or another standard font.

Rights for published work

Acceptance grants Empty House Press First Serial Rights, along with nonexclusive Electronic Archival Rights, to showcase your work indefinitely on our site. At the time of publication, all rights revert back to the author. If you re-publish the work elsewhere, please credit us as the original publisher.

Additional info

Cool theme Fast response Accept previously published: "We are willing to read work that has appeared on an author’s personal site or blog or at an online venue that has closed provided that the work is otherwise no longer available or appears in a significantly different form and appropriate acknowledgements are included." Active on social media Promote writers even after publication - hype hype hype

About the Magazine

Founded in 2018 | United States

We are looking for writing that addresses the way narrative and presence adhere to place and the way they vanish. We encourage broad interpretations of what the idea or image of an empty house might evoke. This includes but is not limited to writing about home, landscape, place, memory, and of course, the atmosphere of previously inhabited spaces.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Cara Downey

Editor

Erin Calabria

Editor