Submission Process and Timeline

We employ a blind review process whereby your work will be read without knowledge of the writer’s name, personal information, qualifications, or past submissions. We require that once a work is submitted, we retain all rights for first publishing for 60 days, after which the author may submit the work to another journal for rights to first publish should you withdraw the work from the Journal of Microliterature's queue. If your work is not accepted for publication, you will receive a thank you e-mail. We would like to emphasize that this is an extraordinarily quick response time, and do so for the benefit of the author.

Simultaneous submissions are not permitted, but multiple submissions are. If you are submitting multiple works, submit them separately.

Works should be wholly original and not directly or explicitly based off another author’s story or characters. Works with violence, sexuality, and/or explicit language are permitted as long as we acknowledge it as pertinent to the work. Please be aware that we only accept works between 1-1000 words; works exceeding this range will not be considered for publication.