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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
Acceptance Rate
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!
You're the best!
56
Total submissions tracked
293 days
Average response time
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
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Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Please submit a word document.
Rights for published work
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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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