submissions
GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR FICTION, NONFICTION, AND POETRY
We are looking for powerful and poignant works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. We accept works on any topic and subject.
After your piece is accepted, the tiny journal receives first North American Publishing Rights and Archival Rights. Following publication, all rights revert back to you, the author.
All accepted work may be subject to small grammar and formatting edits. We will not make any major changes to ideas or concepts. We will send you the corrected piece and proceed forward to final publication only after you have approved the corrected version.
At the tiny journal, we highly encourage you to take our feedback into consideration, especially if your work has not been accepted. As writers ourselves, we understand how disheartening a rejection can feel, but we hope our comments will act as a guideline in the revision process. In the words of Ray Bradbury, “you fail only when you stop writing."
Please note we are currently on a submission hiatus.
FICTION AND NONFICTION
send us up to three of your best works 1000 words or less.
we allow a 100 word cushion, but any works exceeding 1100 words will automatically be rejected.
excerpts are welcome as long as they can stand alone from the whole piece.
simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know as soon as possible if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
we do not accept previously published works.
note: we charge $3.00 for submissions in order to fund production costs for the literary magazine.
if you would like feedback on your work, please select your preferred add-on (detailed descriptions of add-ons can be found below).
ready to submit? (please note our Submittable URL is www.the-tiny-journal.submittable.com and not www.thetinyjournal.submittable.com)
we only accept works via Submittable.
POETRY
send us up to three of your best short poems.
please place each poem on a separate page.
we are looking for poems that are around twenty lines.
simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but please let us know as soon as possible if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
we do not accept previously published works.
note: we charge $3.00 for submissions in order to fund production costs for the literary magazine.
if you would like feedback on your work, please select your preferred add-on (detailed descriptions of add-ons can be found below).
ready to submit? (please note our Submittable URL is www.the-tiny-journal.submittable.com and not www.thetinyjournal.submittable.com)
we only accept works via Submittable.
RESUBMISSIONS
a note on resubmissions:
if we think your work shows promise and we ask you to resubmit, please do not resubmit until the next submission period.
we ask you this because we want to be fair to the other writers who have submitted and be able to give the same time and attention to their work as we gave to yours.
this rule for resubmissions also applies if you are submitting different works after we have sent you a letter.
if we have not accepted a previous work you have submitted, please do not send new work for us to consider until the next submission period.
all work that does not follow these guidelines will be disregarded without notification.
ADD-ONS
Writing can be lonely. Let us be part of your journey.
14-day response time, no feedback: $5.00
take the suspense out of the submission process and hear back from us in 14 days
one month response time, paragraph of feedback: $10.00
hear back from us in one month with a paragraph of what’s working and what can be improved
paragraph of feedback: $8.00
our team of readers will offer some guidelines and pointers on what’s working and what can be improved within our regular response time frame (approx. 3 months)
if you are interested in one of these options, please select your preferred “add-on” when visiting our Submittable page.
THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING TO THE TINY JOURNAL!