 Roger Williams University in Rhode Island

Mount Hope has been published since 2012 out of the creative writing program at Roger Williams University. Mount Hope is published both online and in print. The name of the magazine references Mount Hope, which sits adjacent to our campus on Mount Hope Bay.

Mount Hope is published both online (mounthopemagazine.com) and in print. We release one to two pieces a month, for the duration of that month; all these monthly releases will be collected in a print annual, with authors receiving contributor copies. If your work is accepted, you can expect your online release within 90 days, typically.



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Mount Hope Magazine

We'll be open to poetry submissions until December 1, 2025.
Please include your name and email address on the submission.
We do not look at previously published work unless in translation and noted as so, with permission of the author.

Poetry

Literary fiction, up to 5,000 words. Original work; first serial rights only. Please format properly. PLEASE put your name and email address on your manuscript.
We seek literary fiction that matters, something that speaks to the world about something that matters. Tell us the story you're burning to tell.
We value authors who show a mastery of prose. The lyrical rather than the plain; the intriguing rather than the expected. We value innovation and don't mind work that might be a bit odd or eccentric, if it's interesting.
We don't publish genre fiction, but we do consider submissions of literary work that uses genre conventions. Think Ishiguro, Le Guin, Murakami, and those serious writers who go beyond genre.
We can take up to six months to reply, given the cycles of the work, but we'll try to get back to much sooner than that.
We do not look at previously published work unless in translation and noted as so (in with translations, the full legal permission of the author being translated).
And please: Put your name and contact info on the manuscript itself.

Fiction

Literary nonfiction of up to 5,000 words. Original work; first serial rights only. Please no academic papers or opinion pieces. PLEASE put your name and email address on your manuscript.
We seek pieces written with an attention toward masterful prose, abut subject that matter. Memoir must be about something bigger than pure reminiscence; we prefer essays that address big questions in the culture in which we write. We shy away from the purely political, the purely religious and the purely doctrinaire. We prize innovation and originality over the same old thing. 
We do not look at previously published work unless in translation and noted as so.

Nonfiction

We publish up to 12 images that tell stories about people. See past issues for examples. Please no landscapes, still lives or staged work. We'd prefer your submission be a single entity, such as a pdf booklet or Word file. If we choose to publish, we'll request higher-quality images from you.

Photography

We publish literary graphic stories and excerpts of graphic novels. Be aware we have a vertical format and the images sent must conform. We typically run 10-12 images with multiple panels per page. See issues of our magazine in ISSUU for examples. We prefer submissions be one entity, such as a PDF booklet. We'll request high-quality images if we choose to publish.

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