Submissions

Things that make us excited: We’re always fond of any form of work, whether it be speculative fiction or a haibun, so long as you commit to your piece: we want feeling, we want bold experimentation, we want works that are your best and most perfected, and that takes us beyond the stars. We want your funky formatting and unique forms that you think have never been seen before. We want the powerful supernovas, the profound pieces of your heart, and the polished galaxies you craft and take us through. If you truly love your piece(s) and have tucked pieces of yourself into them, we promise we’ll love them just as dearly!

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Things that make us wary: Hard sells for us include gratuitous and glorifying descriptions of sex, sexual assault, violence, self-harm, suicide, and/or abuse. However, we do recognize and understand the need for catharsis through writing, and if your work falls under this category, we firmly ask that you include a trigger/content warning at the top of your submission. On a similar note, some of our Interstellar team members are minors. As such, please do not submit any overly sexually explicit or NSFW works. All such pieces will be rejected without notice and feedback.

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For submissions to be considered for publication, they must not have been previously published elsewhere. We reserve First Serial and Electronic Rights to every piece we publish. After publication, these rights will revert back to the author. However, we request that the author credits Interstellar Literary Review as the work's first home.

If you would like to submit multiple pieces of writing (limit of 2 poems and/or 2 prose pieces per issue), please upload them as separate files. Regardless of whether or not the piece was accepted for publication, feedback of all work will be given within 1 month. However, submissions with multiple works or submissions received closer to the deadline may take a bit longer. We welcome queries after 6 weeks have passed! Additionally, please note that we are a nonprofit magazine, and thus, we are unable to pay our contributors at this time.

• Poetry: 1-2 poems, each poem not exceeding more than 100 lines. 

• Prose: 1-2 works, each work not exceeding 2500 words.

• Minimum word count: 50 words.