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Journal of Arts & Literature is a bi-annual online literary journal run by the English graduate students of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Nonfiction
Max words: 4000
Please send only one piece per reading period. Manuscript length can range from short/flash piece to 4,000 words. Include your email address and a brief bio in the "Cover Letter" box.
Fiction
Max words: 4000
We will consider works of short fiction between 1,000 - 4,000 words. We are especially looking for compelling, thought-provoking narratives with well-developed characters and a distinctive voice.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
We especially seek pieces that encapsulate narrative and emotion in precise language, through storytelling that suspends the reader, if only briefly, in a moment of epiphany.
literary
experimental
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Please submit 3-5 poems in a Word or PDF document. Please include your email address in your submission and a brief third-person bio in your cover letter. Only submit once per reading period.
Nonfiction
Max words: 4000
Please send only one piece per reading period. Manuscript length can range from short/flash piece to 4,000 words. Include your email address and a brief bio in the "Cover Letter" box.
Fiction
Max words: 4000
We will consider works of short fiction between 1,000 - 4,000 words. We are especially looking for compelling, thought-provoking narratives with well-developed characters and a distinctive voice.
Flash rules
Max words: 1000
Max pieces: 3
We especially seek pieces that encapsulate narrative and emotion in precise language, through storytelling that suspends the reader, if only briefly, in a moment of epiphany.
literary
experimental
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Please submit 3-5 poems in a Word or PDF document. Please include your email address in your submission and a brief third-person bio in your cover letter. Only submit once per reading period.
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
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Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility
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Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 2007 | United States
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 :)
Maxwell Gontarek
Editor-in-Chief
Brandi Hanna
Editor-in-Chief
Spencer Silverthorne
Poetry Editor
Patrick Caoile
Fiction Editor
Dora Holland
Fiction Editor
Raquel Thorne
Nonfiction Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
2
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
570 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/570 days
Fastest response time
196 days
Slowest response time
943 days