Submissions
Submissions temporarily closed until August 1st!
Jersey Devil Press is now accepting short story submissions for our monthly online journal. Stories selected for the online journal will automatically be considered for the yearly print anthology. Our tastes tend more toward funny, offbeat and absurd, but we’ve certainly been known to dig the occasional heart-breaking or thought-provoking piece, too.
At this time we are NOT accepting unsolicited book proposals.
Submissions to the online journal should be less than 4,200 words. We’d prefer an even 4,000, but we know those last sentences can turn into pages. We’re also OK with flash fiction, if that’s your thing.
Simultaneous submissions are cool, previously published work is cool. Just let us know when and where. Please note that by “previously,” we literally mean “previously.” If it’s currently published, i.e. something that went up in another journal last month and is still readily available online, or if it’s part of the book you just released, that seems a little greedy to us.
Submissions can be sent to: submissions at jerseydevilpress dot com. Please put the word “Submission” in the subject line, along with the title of the piece. Your work can either be attached to the e-mail or in the body of. Just be sure you don’t give us any wonky viruses or we will find you and destroy your laptop with our minds.
Include a third-person bio in the ballpark of 100 words. Please submit only one story at a time, and please wait at least one week before resubmitting after a rejection.
If you don’t receive a reply from us within eight weeks, feel free to send a follow-up query to the above address.
Please, for the love of God, proofread. A typo we can understand, but a complete and utter lack of the basic tenets of grammar is an affront to human decency.
We can’t pay you. We’re sorry. If your work makes it into the print anthology, we’ll send you a free copy. But that’s it. We’re at least as poor as you are.
If you’re still somehow confused, or you just want a leg up on topics that will really get our engines revved, click here for more detailed submissions info than you could ever possibly imagine.
And now, because the editor’s father works for a law firm:
Jersey Devil Press accepts no liability arising from the publication of an author’s work. Authors retain copyright on all works. We request one-time electronic rights and the right to publish your work in the print anthology. Work published in an online issue will be archived indefinitely. Submission to Jersey Devil Press constitutes acceptance of these conditions.
