Inverted Syntax
Literary Magazine
We don’t want work that adheres to outdated definitions. We want experimental. We want hybrid. We want progressive. We want work that takes unorthodox approaches to form and aesthetics.
This listing is scheduled for audit
Please double check information on the magazine’s website
if you are an editor for this magazine, you can claim the listing here
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 3-12 months*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: ?
PaysNo
Fee$4
Find more details in the Genres section
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
From the editors
yes, for print issue contributors
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 2
Sub Genres: Literary
Nonfiction
Submission fee: $ 4
No specific limitations
Nonfiction - 1000 words max
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 2
Poetry
Max lines: 50
Min pieces: 6
Max pieces: 8
Submission fee: $ 4
Art
Min pieces: 6
Max pieces: 8
Photography
Min pieces: 6
Max pieces: 8
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
No cover letter advice
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Send prose in .doc/ .docx and pdf. format. We prefer you send us both docx and pdf format of the same works in the submission. The journal is 8.5 x 8.5. We attempt to preserve the original formatting by all means possible, but there are some limitations when working within a 7.5x7.5 after margins. Please keep this in mind when considering Inverted Syntax as a home for your piece.
Author's rights
If your work is published in Inverted Syntax, you are granting us First Serial Rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If you republish your work elsewhere, you agree to credit us as the first publisher. You also agree that your work may remain on our website permanently. Postcards received in the mail are usually all automatically accepted and published regardless of whether the work has appeared online or print before.
Additional info
We don’t pay contributors, but if we publish you in print, we send you a copy and we work hard to promote your published work. We also throw a launch party and reading to celebrate published work and encourage you to attend and read (currently online due to COVID). We also nominate for awards, such as the Pushcart Prize, the Best American series, Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology, and Best Microfiction. Nominees will be notified and listed on our site.
Tracker statistics
10
Total submissions tracked
269 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
160 days
Fastest response time
378 days
Slowest response time
Сhill Subs is able to provide internal statistics because you use our tracker! You're the best!
Submission calls
All genres
About
At Inverted Syntax, we feel similarly. We want to be your Salon des Refusés. We believe that something is missing from the current literary and visual arts landscape— work that feels rogue, daring. Work that breaks the rules. Work that doesn't have any rules. We don’t want work that adheres to outda...
Read moreFounded
2017
Country
US
Masthead
NAWAL NADER-FRENCH
Editor-in-Chief
JESICA DAVIS
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
ALLISSA HERTZ
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
MELANIE MERLE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR