"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."
Open:
Yes, till May 31, 2023
Vibe: Send us your best but less intimidating
Response time:
6 months / 286 days
Payment:
Yes
Simultaneous submissions:
Yes
Previously published:
No
Submission fee:
$3
Expedited submissions:
No
Available in print:
Yes
Examples online:
Yes
Average acceptance rate:
0%
Country:
United States
Year founded:
1977
Has Masthead info:
Yes
Chill Subs Tracker Stats!
Total tracked subs
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Average acceptance rate
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Average response time
286 days
Average acceptance time
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Average rejection time
286 days
Fastest response time
268 days
Slowest response time
311 days
Important stuff
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)
Genres
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Fiction
For short prose (under 750 words), submissions can include up to three pieces. Reading period: September 1 - May 31.
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Nonfiction
For short prose (under 750 words), submissions can include up to three pieces. Open year round
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Poetry
Max pieces: 5Reading period: September 1 - May 31.
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Translations
No specific limitations
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later!
If you're an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
If you're an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Polly Buckingham
Editor-in-ChiefSamantha Swain
Managing EditorBrittany Jennings
Web EditorTricia Kiehn
Web EditorExamples
'The Return of Martin Guerre' by David Kirby
(excerpt)
Read the full piece in the magazineEver see The Return of Martin Guerre? It’s the best movie.
Actually, it’s the worst movie, but I’ll get to that in a minute.
It goes this way: Martin Guerre is married to Bertrande,
but in 1548, he goes to fight in one of those seemingly
interminable wars that the French were always fighting,
and he doesn’t return until eight years later. Boy,
is Bertrande happy to see him! There’s only one
problem, which is that the new Martin Guerre doesn’t
exactly look like the old one. And when he starts to squabble
with relatives over his inheritance, they say Hey, this guy’s
an impostor, and things don’t get any better after that.
'Flew It All Around' by Matthew Lippman
(excerpt)
Read the full piece in the magazineMy kid did my hair this morning.
She got her fingers in my mop
and fucked it up.
Made all these spikes and railroads trestles.
Threw in some twirls and blue paint.
I had spent an hour with the brush. Didn’t matter.
She came upstairs and got her hands in there,
did some modern dance acrobatics on it.
When she was done
it was a garbage dump,
a forest of brutalized pines.
She said, Your head’s a forest.
She was right. She’s nine.
'Ode to Super Friends and Nature Television' by Kathryn Smith
(excerpt)
Read the full piece in the magazineDays when the planet seems particularly poised
for disaster, I wear both my cephalopod T-shirt
and my cephalopod ring. Have you heard of a more
Anthropocene coping mechanism? I do it
for the birds with nowhere to land at the critical
point in their migration, for the skewed seasons
and the jungle ants with parasite-skewered brains.
Cave dwellers evolve to survive their sealed-over eyes.
Who needs eyes on a planet wobbling its axis
like a Tilt-A-Whirl? No wonder I wake
motion sick, the fact of death and the ocean and
the mouthparts of insects brimming the list of things
I can’t control.
'Fallout, or the Mother Tongue of Pinocchio Was the Wind Through the Trees' by Roy Bentley
(excerpt)
Read the full piece in the magazineTHINK OF THE OCTOBER you read Pinocchio
by flashlight inside the bomb shelter model,
left to play or read while your entrepreneurial
father accomplished small miracles in his shop,
development housing spreading in all directions
and across the horizon, cacophonous Ohio traffic
leaking into the concrete-block model like fallout,
like you guessed invisible charged particles behave
or so they demonstrated with charts and a short film
after civil defense drills at Rolling Fields Elementary.
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