Drunken Boat Submission Manager

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Welcome to Drunken Boat’s online submissions system. We accept submissions ONLY via this system. We do not read literary submissions sent to the editor’s address. We do not read submissions sent via snail mail. The exception is made for artwork or other media which the online system cannot support. Those can be sent to the editor@drunkenboat.com address.

Please read the following guidelines:

General: Please submit literary work as a Word .doc (Not .docx), ,rtf or pdf. We cannot read submissions in other formats.

Poetry: No more than three poems per submission. No more than two submissions per year.

Fiction & Nonfiction: No more than 5000 words, unless you first query the genre editor via the above editor’s address.

You can expect a reply in about 3-4 months. We regret that, due to the volume of submissions, we are unable to give personalized criticism.

Call for Submissions: /Slant/Sex/: Decades after Women’s Lib and Stonewall, in the time of queer theory, gurlesque and “girls gone wild,” there are still aspects of women and transgender people’s sexuality that are taboo or discounted (the sexuality of older women and women with disabilities, for example, or a joyful transgender sexual self). We are looking for poems, prose, and multimedia/interactive art that address these topics. This is a call for bold, honest investigations of the sexual female/trans self that polite society has yet to fully embrace. We particularly encourage submissions from women of color, older women, queer women, women with disabilities, and transgender/two-spirit/intersex/gender nonconforming folks. Follow the general and genre guidelines above. Choose “Slant / Sex” from the drop down menu for “genre.” IMPORTANT: please indicate the genre of your work in the comments field, in addition to anything else you’d like to tell us.
*We reject the gender binary, acknowledge that people have multiple ways of identifying their gender, and seek to be fully inclusive of all women-identified and trans-identified people in this call.

Call for Submissions: First Peoples, Plural: Drunken Boat is now accepting submissions for its “First Peoples, Plural” folio, to debut in issue #13 this winter. We will be considering poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual art, sound art, video art, and web art by indigenous people worldwide. Our goal is to present a wide scope of work from a wide scope of people. Works might explore native identity and aesthetic (and their evolution), family, spirituality, sexuality, passing, othering, exoticism, and the media. Please indicate the genre of your piece in the comments section.

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