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"Willow Springs publishes work by unknown and up and coming writers, and by U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, engaging our readers in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and the human experience."

"Willow Springs publishes work by unknown and up and coming writers, and by U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, engaging our readers in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and the human experience."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

6 months / 293 days

Acceptance Rate

0%

  • Payment

    Yes: see Genres section for details

  • Fee

    Yes: $3

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

6 genres

Fiction

Reading period: September 1 - May 31.

Flash Fiction

Max words: 750

Max pieces: 3

For short prose (under 750 words), submissions can include up to three pieces.

Nonfiction

Open year round

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 750

Max pieces: 3

For short prose (under 750 words), submissions can include up to three pieces.

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Reading period: September 1 - May 31.

Translation

No specific limitations

Fiction

Reading period: September 1 - May 31.

Flash Fiction

Max words: 750

Max pieces: 3

For short prose (under 750 words), submissions can include up to three pieces.

Nonfiction

Open year round

Flash Nonfiction

Max words: 750

Max pieces: 3

For short prose (under 750 words), submissions can include up to three pieces.

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

Reading period: September 1 - May 31.

Translation

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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Track submission

56

Total submissions tracked

293 days

Average response time

0%

Average acceptance rate

268 days

Fastest response time

313 days

Slowest response time

*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 41 days, 364 days, 454 days, 826 days

How to submit

Process

We use Submittable.

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Please submit a word document.

Rights for published work

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Additional info

Active on social media Available in print. We offer two complimentary copies for work we publish. Pays! $100 per published long-form prose piece, $40 for short prose and $20 per published poem Promote writers even after publication - hype hype hype Submission fee (though they have some free submission windows)

About the Magazine

Founded in 1977 | United States

Since 1977 Willow Springs has published the finest in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as interviews with notable authors including Marilynne Robinson, Stuart Dybek, Aimee Bender, Robert Wrigley, Joyce Carol Oates, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ramona Ausubel, Rebecca Brown and Kim Addonizio, to name a few. Willow Springs is published semi-annually, in both print and digital format. Willow Springs publishes work by unknown and up and coming writers, and by U.S. Poet Laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners, engaging our readers in an ongoing discussion of art, ideas, and the human experience. We also do work in the Spokane community: started by Sam Ligon over fifteen years ago, our longest running program is the Triceratops Poetry Project, where we bring poetry into third grade classrooms. In our forty years, Willow Springs has published over a thousand writers, including Tobias Wolff, Jorge Luis Borges, Yusef Komunyakaa, Louis Jenkins, Denise Levertov, Lydia Millet, WS Merwin, William Stafford, Charles Bukowski, Chris Offutt, Robert Olmstead, Michael Martone, Robert Hass, Stacey Richter, Tomaž Šalamun, Bret Lott, Sam Hamill, Naomi Shihab Nye, Erin Belieu, Laura Kasischke, Osip Mandelstam, Patricia Henley, Dorianne Laux, Mark Halliday, D. Nurkse, Elizabeth Murawski, among others from around the world. Willow Springs is produced within the The MFA at EWU.

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 :)

Polly Buckingham

Editor-in-Chief

Samantha Swain

Managing Editor

Brittany Jennings

Web Editor

Tricia Kiehn

Web Editor

Examples

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