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).