General Submissions

We read submissions year round.

Unpublished work only, please.

We ask for first English-language print serial rights, with an option to showcase your piece on our website. All rights revert to the author after publication. Payment is two contributor copies and a one-year subscription.

We accept simultaneous submissions; if your piece is accepted elsewhere, let us know.

Multiple submissions: you may submit in more than one genre, but please send each submission separately.
After hearing from us, please wait at least a year before submitting again.

Take note that our editorial staffs, and therefore preferences, change yearly. Try us again!

Poetry: Up to five poems, or ten single-sided pages. 

"A Meeting Place for Our Shared but Fractured Memory" by Heather Charley

 

Prose: Under 5,000 words is best. Double-space. Word counts are appreciated.
One conventional fiction piece or up to three flash fiction pieces per submission.

Non-fiction: Under 5,000 words is best.

Art: Email submissions only. High resolution version (300 dpi), .2 MB in size JPEG, .TIFF or .PDF.

To Submit by Email:

Place cover letter and contact information in the body of your email.
Put "Poetry Submission," "Fiction Submission" or "Non-fiction Submission"
in the subject line, and attach the poetry or prose
as a TXT, Word or .RTF or .PDF document. Send to whiskeyisland@csuohio.edu .

To Submit by Postal Mail:

Include a cover letter, SASE, and writer's name, address, phone and email on each piece.
If we accept your piece, we will ask for an electronic version.

Mail general submissions to:

Whiskey Island Magazine
English Dept.
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115

Mark the envelope "Poetry," "Fiction" or "Non-fiction."

We will recycle unselected manuscripts, unless you ask us to return them.

WHISKEY ISLAND MAGAZINE ANNUAL FICTION AND POETRY CONTEST

Contest entries accepted October 1—March 31 of each year (postmark dates).

$1000 in annual prizes
$500 and publication for both first place prose and poetry winners
$10 Reading Fee per entry

Unpublished work only.

One entry = Maximum 5,000 word prose piece or up to three poems.

Judged blindly. Place contact information on cover sheet only.

Current students, faculty and staff of CSU or NEOMFA or former students
or friends and family of the judges are not eligible.

Winners announced by June 1. Enclose SASE for results; no entries are returned.

Label envelope: WI Contest, Poetry or Fiction.

Please make $10 check payable to Whiskey Island Magazine, and mail to:

Whiskey Island Magazine
English Dept.
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115

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