HYPERTEXT SUBMISSIONS OPEN
SEPTEMBER 1-MAY 1
Before submitting to our journal, please read our magazine (online & print) and become familiar with our content. We publish a wide range of voices, from emerging to established writers. We also publish a wide range of content, from safe to not-so-safe. We are a small operation and we log in a ton of hours working on edits with writers, posting, and publishing.
Consider purchasing Hypertext Review. We are as proud of our print journal as we are of our website. Both contain work from established and emerging writers and we nominate writers for national awards including the Pushcart Prize and the “Best American Short Stories” and “Best American Essays” series. Your purchase will not only give you an idea of what kinds of stories we publish but it truly helps keep our doors open. You can order Hypertext Review at your LOCAL INDIE BOOKSELLER.
Why do we charge a $5 submission fee for non-contest submissions? Since 2010, Hypertext Magazine has been publishing stories, essays, and interviews by writers who take chances, push forms, and present a unique view of the world but the cost to produce online and print journals goes up every year. We started charging a submission fee in 2019 to help pay for hosting, security, and a myriad of other services too numerous to list. We are not affiliated with a college or university and, therefore, don’t have a financial safety net.
Submissions close from June through August .
KEEP IN MIND
As of our Summer 2020 edition, we will now pay a small stipend (wish we could pay more) for accepted work.
Please note: First-place contest winners—for our Fiction & Essay Contest—will receive $100 cash prize total.
Short Stories & Essays: $40 total
Flash Fiction: 10 pages or less (12-pt. type, one-inch margins): $30 total
Poetry: $15 per poem (up to 2 poems) up to $30 total
When we publish your work, you agree to give us first-time online publishing rights and then, of course, it’s yours to do what you’d like. If you publish it in the future, please do mention that Hypertext published it first. When you become insanely famous, we’ll remind you to contribute to the operating costs of our magazine.
You will hear back from from us in 3-4 months, ideally sooner. Feel free to nudge us via email if you have not heard back in 4 months.
Note that all submissions could be considered for publication in both Hypertextmag.com (online) or Hypertext Review (print).
We do not issue refunds for submissions.
Please submit no more than one submission in a given genre during the reading period. Simultaneous submissions are permitted. Please notify us immediately if the work has been accepted elsewhere.
If your work is accepted it will be subject to an agreement granting Hypertextmag.com and Hypertext Review first publication rights. You retain the rights to the work after first publication.
By submitting the work for consideration, you represent that:
• The work is not in the public domain, has not been published in any other publication in any jurisdiction the the world, has not been distributed or displayed to members of the public, and you have not made any agreement with another party inconsistent with granting first publication rights to us. Do let us know if your work is part of a collection or larger work being prepared for future publication. If that is the case, let us know the title, publisher and planned publication date.
• The work is your original authorship and no other party has a claim to rights in it except as you specifically disclose at the time of your submission.
• There is nothing in the work that is libelous, invades personal privacy, or deprives another of the right of publicity, or is otherwise actionably tortious or illegal.
Submit via Submittable. Paper submissions will not be read.
Tips and other helpful information…
FICTION
We like novel excerpts and short stories that weigh in at about 3,000 words. If it’s slightly over 3,000 words and we like the extra words, we’re flexible.
We like flash fiction in pairs or trios (but singles are fine too). Please send all in one document.
Include a brief cover letter with your bio and email/contact information.
For contest submissions, please do not include your name in the body of the manuscript.
ESSAYS
We like essays that weigh in at about 3,000 words. If it’s slightly over 3,000 words and we like the extra words, we’re flexible. We love the idea of creative nonfiction flash.
Include a brief cover letter with your bio and email/contact information on the first page of the manuscript.
For contest submissions, please do not include your name in the body of the manuscript.
POETRY
To get an idea of the breadth and scope of what we publish, read the poetry we have published over the past two years including work by Ana Castillo, Tara Betts, Mike Puican, Simone Muench, Fleda Brown, Pablo Brescia, Jennifer Steele, Kate Gray, Amanda Galvan Huynh, Megan Sungyoon, Char Lee Lorraine, Elizabeth Metzger Sampson, Yvonne B. Robery, Anya Krugovoy Silver, among others.
Please note: Two submissions at a time, please. When you upload your submission, wait to hear from us before uploading any more work.
Do not submit poems separately. Put all your poems together in one document.
Include a brief cover letter with your bio and email/contact information on the first page of the manuscript.
HYPERTEXT REVIEW LITERARY PRINT JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS
Submit to our 2nd Annual Short Story & Essay Contest 2020
First-Place Winners In Each Category Receive $100 Cash Prize
OPEN 08/25/2019—3/18/2020
ENTRY FEE $10.00
Submission Guidelines
As of our Summer 2020 edition, we will now pay a small stipend (wish we could pay more) for accepted work.
Please note: First-place contest winners—for our Fiction & Essay Contest—will receive $100.
Short Stories: $40
Flash Fiction: 10 pages or less: $30
The finalists in our 2nd Annual Writing Contest will be published in the Summer 2020 edition of HYPERTEXT REVIEW and online at Hypertextmag.com.
2020 GUEST JUDGES
FICTION: Sahar Mustafah
Sahar Mustafah is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, a richly complex inheritance she explores in her fiction. Her short stories have been awarded the Guild Literary Complex Prize for fiction a Distinguished Story honor from Best American Short Stories, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a Best of the Net nomination, among other honors. Her novel, The Beauty of Your Face, will be published by W.W. Norton & Company, April, 2020.
ESSAY: Patricia Ann McNair
Patricia Ann McNair writes fiction and nonfiction. The Temple of Air, stories, won Southern Illinois University Devil’s Kitchen Readers Award, Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year, and was a finalist for Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction Award. And These Are The Good Times essays, was a Montaigne Medal finalist. McNair’s work has been published widely, including in Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Good Men Project, Superstition Review, Solstice Lit Mag, Hypertext and other journals and magazines. She is a contributor to The Rumpus, and The Washington Independent Review of Books. She was named to Chicago’s NewCity Lit50 list, and to Guild Complex’s 30 Writers to Watch. Her work has been featured in creative writing textbooks, and she teaches graduate and undergraduate students at Columbia College Chicago where she directs the undergraduate creative writing programs. McNair is artistic director for Mining the Story, a writers’ retreat in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
