The Wild Umbrella
Literary Magazine
An ambitious new journal publishing prose and poetry from Ireland and the world.
Highlights
This magazine may have some eligibility requirements
Please double-check before submitting.
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 90 days or less*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: 6% *Editor reported data
- Work acquired through solicitation: 0%
Pays€10-€50
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
It's perfectly fine with us if work has been published on your personal social media or personal website.
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
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
From the editors
10
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 4000 words max
Max words: 4000
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Payment: € 25
Nonfiction - 4000 words max
Max words: 4000
Sub Genres: All / surprise us
Payment: € 25
Poetry
Min pieces: 1
Max pieces: 5
Payment: € 10
Art
Payment: € 50
No specific limitations
Photography
Payment: € 50
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Duosuma
Cover letter
Your writer bio can be 100 words or less, and feel free to keep your cover letter brief.
Eligibility
All writers welcome, with a emphasis on celebrating Irish writing.Formatting
–Name your document the title of your story/essay/poem-bundle. –Submissions should be sent in a legible font – Times New Roman, for example – and no smaller than 12pt. –Submissions can be sent as PDFs or Word documents.
Author's rights
We ask for the first rights to publish, and then publishing rights return to the writer in perpetuity. We may use parts/quotes/passages of your work in our social media campaigns over time, and we will promote them enthusiastically when we send them out into the world.
Additional info
Tracker statistics
42
Total submissions tracked
83 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
69 days
Fastest response time
108 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 27 days, 131 days
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Submission calls
All genres
About
The Wild Umbrella, a journal of writing from Ireland and the world, was created to publish and promote great work. We'll add to an already abundant scene of Irish journals and magazines, by seeking out fresh and interesting works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Founded
2023
Country
IE
Masthead
Julian Kanagy
Editor-in-Chief
Rose Costello
Managing Editor
Emily Linehan
Managing Editor
Grant Burkhardt
Managing Editor