Fatal Flaw

How to submit

• Processs

  Submittable

• Cover letter

  In your cover letter, please include the word count of your piece (for prose, no need to do so for poetry), your name, the title of your work, any relevant previous publications, and any applicable social media links.

• Eligibility

  No specific eligibility requirements

• Formatting

  When formatting prose, please double space, use Times New Roman font and 1" margins, number your pages and include your name and the title of your work on the first page of the document. When formatting poetry, please put all poems into one single-spaced document. Each poem should start on a new page with titles and lines left aligned (unless the poem involves special formatting, in which case, do your thing – we love seeing space on a page reenvisioned). For visual art and photography JPEGs work best for photos, and PDFs for other work. Please submit at 300 dpi for all images. Please include titles or label work(s) as "untitled.

• Author's rights

  Fatal Flaw retains First Serial Rights, but otherwise the work and the rights belong to you, meaning that we’ll publish it first, but once we do, feel free to include it in that short story collection you’ve been wanting to put together!

• Additional info

  We especially encourage submissions from those who identify as persons of color, multiracial, indigenous, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and anyone belonging to a community of underrepresented voices. We currently offer free submissions to BIPOC and other underrepresented writers and artists in all genres. Please only submit once to one category during each submission period.