We don’t want work that adheres to outdated definitions.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.
Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 360 days after submission*/Editor reported data302 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: ?*/Editor reported data33.33%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Publication
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
Best Microfiction, Best Of The Net, Pushcart
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
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
302 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
160 days
Fastest response time
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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...
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2017
Country
US
Masthead
NAWAL NADER-FRENCH
Editor-in-Chief
JESICA DAVIS
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
ALLISSA HERTZ
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
MELANIE MERLE
ASSOCIATE EDITOR