Faultline welcomes previously unpublished submissions of poetry, fiction, and art. Our submission period is October 1st to December 15th. Submissions received at any other time will not be read. To familiarize yourself with the sort of stuff we tend to like here at Faultline, we recommend stopping by our archive page to order one of our glittering issues from years past. We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.
Submissions for poetry are capped at 250; fiction at 150; no cap for art. Once the cap is reached, submissions will close. We suggest getting your work in as soon as possible.
We hope to respond back to all submissions by late spring 2026. We look forward to reading your work!
Submission guidelines:
Up to five 8 x 10 color or black and white prints (slides may be necessary if work is accepted for publication). We are currently experimenting with a different journal layout, so please feel free to submit your work even if it’s larger than the above specs.
Please only submit one submission per reading period per genre. Contributors who have already been published in Faultline should wait a minimum of 16 months before resubmitting, so as not to potentially appear in consecutive issues.
Poetry submission guidelines:
- Please submit up to five poems, all in one document, with each poem beginning on a new page
- Format: default of 12 pt font, but open in the case where font size needs to vary for form.
- Please include your name on each page.
- This year, we are especially interested in hybrid works or poems that test the bounds of form—things at the brink of rupture and breakage, that test the bounds of the container of poetry. This can be interpreted in a variety of ways and can include but is not limited to work that incorporates archival artifacts, prose, found objects, visual art, and multimodal poetry (we are currently working on publishing our pieces online). And of course, we are always open to traditional forms.
- Please only submit one submission per reading period per genre. Contributors who have already been published in Faultline should wait a minimum of 16 months before resubmitting, so as not to potentially appear in consecutive issues.
*We have subs capped at 250 for the period from Oct 1 - Dec 15th, 2025. Once the cap is reached, submissions for this volume will close for the final time. We suggest getting your work in as soon as possible. Thank you.
We look forward to reviewing your work!
Submission guidelines:
- Please send us one short story, up to 20 pages.
- Format: double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman or Palatino font.
- Please include your name in the title of the document.
- In addition to traditional fiction, we are happy to consider creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and fiction in translation. If you are submitting one of these genres, please include it with your name in the title of the document.
- Please only submit one submission per reading period per genre. Contributors who have already been published in Faultline should wait a minimum of 16 months before resubmitting, so as not to potentially appear in consecutive issues.
*Submissions are capped at 150 for the period between Oct 1 - Dec 15, 2025. Once the cap has been reached, submissions for this volume will close for the final time. We suggest submitting as soon as possible.
We look forward to reading your work!