Map Literary: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Art
  • About
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    • Submissions
    • NJ High School Writing Contest
    • Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award
    • NJ Undergraduate Writing Contest
    • In Print
    • Subscribe
    • Internship Opportunity
    • Links
    • WPU MFA
  • Nonfiction
    • Jill Darling, "Linger Here"
    • Charles Tarlton, "Har Mĕgiddōn (הר מגידו): The Coming American Fiasco"
    • Martha Wiseman, "Loose Ends"
    • Jan Jolly, "Through My Father's Glasses"
    • Kristina Moriconi, "Still Looking"
    • Wm. Anthony Connolly, "IGY"
    • Cal Freeman, "Loosestrife"
    • Jim Daniels
    • W.F. Lantry, "The Strange Beauty of the Unfamiliar"
    • Michael Roloff, "Accretion"
    • Andrew Sunshine, "John Hancock's John Hancock"
    • Diane Payne, "3 micro memoirs"
    • Luc Sante, "Flesh and Bone"
    • Isobel O'Hare, "Failure: A Love Letter"
    • Melissa Wiley, "Barbed Wire Fence"
    • Ashley Wilkinson, "fractional distillation"
  • Poetry
    • Orion Allen
    • Mark DeCarteret 2024
    • Mary Christine Delea
    • Kara Lewis
    • Jim Daniels
    • Martine van Bijlert
    • Adam Day
    • Sunday T. Saheed
    • Alexandria Peary 2023
    • Fiona Lu
    • Harley Chapman
    • Richard Ryal
    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Mark DeCarteret
    • Dennis Hinrichsen Poetry
    • Daniel Biegelson
    • Natan Last
    • Michael Chang
    • D E Steward
    • Benjamin Paloff Poetry
    • David Dodd Lee
    • Isabelle Doyle
    • Kathleen Heil
    • Leonard Kress
    • Lauren Tess
    • Cesca Janece Waterfield
    • Billy Cancel Poetry
    • Scott Minar
    • Mark Decarteret
    • Greg Glazner
    • Bruce McRae
    • Maureen Thorson
  • Fiction
    • On Experimental Fiction
    • Leonnard Menifee, "The Long, Long Ice Picks At the Old Frostee Freeze"
    • Maisy Phelps, "Marina and Marina and Marina and Marina"
    • Mary Lewis, "Red Knees"
    • Anna Mantzaris, "Strange Magic"
    • Ross Kimberlin, "The Queen of Emilys"
    • Mark Cassidy, "How I Met My Wife"
    • Emily Trachtenberg, "Plum"
    • Hector Donovan-Gonzalez
    • Christopher Linforth, "Zia"
    • Jenessa Abrams, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
    • Eros Livieratos, "On Feeling"
    • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
    • Justin Meckes, "The Gash"
    • Reb Livingston, from "Bombyonder"
    • Craig Foltz, "Without Stigma"
  • Art
Map Lit­er­ary pub­lishes poems, prose poems, short sto­ries, self-contained novel excerpts, essays of nonfiction or creative nonfiction, hyper­text, digital and new media works, author inter­views, book/cultural reviews, and art/photography. Sub­mis­sions are con­sid­ered year-round, but do not send more work if we are still con­sid­er­ing your pre­vi­ous sub­mis­sion. We do not con­sider work that has appeared else­where, either in print or on the web, except by special agreement. We do accept simul­ta­ne­ous sub­mis­sions but ask that you give us three weeks exclu­sive con­sid­er­a­tion if pos­si­ble; also, please notify us as soon as you can if your work is accepted elsewhere.

By sub­mit­ting your work, you affirm that you are the sole author and that you main­tain all rights for your work. You also affirm that this work has not been pre­vi­ously pub­lished else­where online, in print, or in any other medium. Upon accep­tance, Map Lit­er­ary acquires exclu­sive First Ser­ial rights (Internet). The work may fur­ther­more be anthol­o­gized in print, audio recorded, archived on our offi­cial website, or used on our broadsides or other pro­mo­tional mate­ri­als. You promise not to pub­lish the Work nor grant oth­ers the right to pub­lish the Work until 90 days after the date of first pub­li­ca­tion of the Map Lit­er­ary issue that includes the Work. Upon pub­li­ca­tion in Map Lit­er­ary, you may repub­lish the Work or grant oth­ers per­mis­sion to repub­lish it on the con­di­tion that such repub­li­ca­tion is accom­pa­nied by an acknowl­edg­ment that the Work was orig­i­nally pub­lished by Map Literary. {Special exceptions to the above can be made for certain works of visual art associated with exhibitions at the Ben Shahn Gallery.}

To sub­mit your work, click below to be taken to the Sub­mit­table web­site. Please include a bio note with your sub­mis­sion. We accept sub­mis­sions ONLY via Sub­mit­table; please do not mail or email us your manuscripts.

Sub­mit your work to us via Sub­mit­table by click­ing here.
                        
Notes on Duotrope cat­e­gories: our main genre of inter­est is Literary/General and its sub­gen­res; we are not inter­ested in straight­for­ward (i.e., non-literary) works of Action/Adventure, Erot­ica, Fan­tasy, Hor­ror, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Sci­ence Fic­tion, Suspense/ Thriller, or West­ern. We are open to all styles, espe­cially Absur­dist, Exper­i­men­tal, Lit­er­ary, Min­i­mal­ist, Real­ist and Sur­re­al­ist. Our favorite poetry forms are Exper­i­men­tal, Free Verse, Hybrid Form, Invented Form, and Prose Poetry. We are open to all sub­jects, espe­cially Books/Literature, Ethnic/Cultural, Mem­oir, Phi­los­o­phy, Sex, Tech­nol­ogy. We pre­fer Flash Fic­tion and Short Sto­ries but also con­sider Nov­el­ettes and Novel Excerpts; we con­sider Inter­views, Reviews, Arti­cles, Essays, and Non-fiction Nar­ra­tives. We hope in the near future to offer token pay­ments for work appear­ing in our print sup­ple­ment (an occasional print edi­tion fea­tur­ing selected work from our online issues).
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The MFA in Creative and Professional Writing Program
Department of Language, Literature, Culture, and Writing

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
The William Paterson University of New Jersey
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  • About
    • Masthead
    • Submissions
    • NJ High School Writing Contest
    • Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award
    • NJ Undergraduate Writing Contest
    • In Print
    • Subscribe
    • Internship Opportunity
    • Links
    • WPU MFA
  • Nonfiction
    • Jill Darling, "Linger Here"
    • Charles Tarlton, "Har Mĕgiddōn (הר מגידו): The Coming American Fiasco"
    • Martha Wiseman, "Loose Ends"
    • Jan Jolly, "Through My Father's Glasses"
    • Kristina Moriconi, "Still Looking"
    • Wm. Anthony Connolly, "IGY"
    • Cal Freeman, "Loosestrife"
    • Jim Daniels
    • W.F. Lantry, "The Strange Beauty of the Unfamiliar"
    • Michael Roloff, "Accretion"
    • Andrew Sunshine, "John Hancock's John Hancock"
    • Diane Payne, "3 micro memoirs"
    • Luc Sante, "Flesh and Bone"
    • Isobel O'Hare, "Failure: A Love Letter"
    • Melissa Wiley, "Barbed Wire Fence"
    • Ashley Wilkinson, "fractional distillation"
  • Poetry
    • Orion Allen
    • Mark DeCarteret 2024
    • Mary Christine Delea
    • Kara Lewis
    • Jim Daniels
    • Martine van Bijlert
    • Adam Day
    • Sunday T. Saheed
    • Alexandria Peary 2023
    • Fiona Lu
    • Harley Chapman
    • Richard Ryal
    • Sherwood Anderson
    • Mark DeCarteret
    • Dennis Hinrichsen Poetry
    • Daniel Biegelson
    • Natan Last
    • Michael Chang
    • D E Steward
    • Benjamin Paloff Poetry
    • David Dodd Lee
    • Isabelle Doyle
    • Kathleen Heil
    • Leonard Kress
    • Lauren Tess
    • Cesca Janece Waterfield
    • Billy Cancel Poetry
    • Scott Minar
    • Mark Decarteret
    • Greg Glazner
    • Bruce McRae
    • Maureen Thorson
  • Fiction
    • On Experimental Fiction
    • Leonnard Menifee, "The Long, Long Ice Picks At the Old Frostee Freeze"
    • Maisy Phelps, "Marina and Marina and Marina and Marina"
    • Mary Lewis, "Red Knees"
    • Anna Mantzaris, "Strange Magic"
    • Ross Kimberlin, "The Queen of Emilys"
    • Mark Cassidy, "How I Met My Wife"
    • Emily Trachtenberg, "Plum"
    • Hector Donovan-Gonzalez
    • Christopher Linforth, "Zia"
    • Jenessa Abrams, "You Never Wish That Upon Anyone"
    • Eros Livieratos, "On Feeling"
    • Halsted M. Bernard, "Your Hands"
    • Justin Meckes, "The Gash"
    • Reb Livingston, from "Bombyonder"
    • Craig Foltz, "Without Stigma"
  • Art