Please review Guidelines as well as the following reminders prior to hitting Submit:

• Must be 18 years or older and a current resident of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or British Columbia.
• 5000 word maximum, per fiction piece; 2 page limit, per poem.
• Two submission limit e.g., one poem, one short; two shorts; two poems.
• Preferred formats: .doc or .docx.
• All work must be edited for grammatical errors. We may ask for additional edits in preparation for publication. Unfortunately, we cannot comment on all submissions.
• We will only consider submissions written in English or translated to English (with author permission).
• Please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• If submission is accepted, $5 honorarium paid upon publication.
• By submitting, you attest that all work is original and in no way utilizes AI word-processing, i.e., ChatGPT.
• Guideline deviations may disqualify submissions from consideration.
• We encourage donations.

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