Thank you for considering a submission to our publication. We appreciate your continued interest and support. If you’re wondering whether you should submit or not, wonder no more. Submit.

We don’t care if you write short stories, poetry, non fiction, medieval sonnets, or Doctor Who fanfic. If it’s written, and people want to read it, we want it in our submission box. So if this is your first time submitting to a publication, don’t let things like being “literary” or “good” stress you out. Give it a whirl!

We also accept reprints, so if you’ve got published work you’d like to see published again, have at it. Just click submit.

Here are some of our guidelines for submission:

If your submission exceeds 5,000 words, we ask that you first send a query letter via email. Include your name, the length in words of your submission, a short summary, and an attachment of the first three pages. Please put “Query Letter” as the subject. All queries should be sent to charlescarter.unc@gmail.com

Feel free to submit as many pieces as you'd like, but if you are submitting more than one, PLEASE submit each piece as separate documents unless you would like for us to review and publish ALL of them at once as one collection. If you are unsure about how to submit your pieces, feel free to give us more information in the submission notes or email us at charlescarter.unc@gmail.com with questions.

Because we process a massive amount of submissions each week, we ask that you please remain patient after submitting. If you would like to withdraw a submission, please notify us at charlescarter.unc@gmail.com. Please wait 60 days before withdrawing your submission as we hope to have a response back to you before then.

If you are submitting multiple poems, please submit them separately unless you would like them published as a single series.

We do request that you remove your name and any of your personal/contact information in the document before submitting as this will speed up our review process. We review every piece anonymously, so any name provided in this form (real or otherwise) will only be used if your piece is selected for publication. Your privacy is important to us.

If you have something you’d like to see published on our site, scroll down and please provide us with…

• The intended title of your piece
• The name you’d like your writing published under. This could be your real name or a pseudonym. If you want your work published anonymously, just leave that field blank.
• An email where we can contact you with feedback
• A text document with your submission (.doc or .docx preferred, although the format of your document will not in any way affect our attitute toward your submission.)
• Whether you’d be interested in having an audio recording and/or a piece of artwork published alongside your piece
• Original artwork if you would like to submit your own. Please include a title, artist's name, and contact info.
• Any supplemental information that may help us to better review your submission

Have a great day and go write something.

Sincerely,

Charles Carter

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