Submission Guidelines:

Short Fiction, Poetry, and Essays:

Slush Pile gladly accepts unsolicited submissions of short fiction and poetry, and will consider essays; please refer to the guidelines below.

Please submit via email attachment, to the address listed below with the type of submission indicated in the subject line (ie: “Short Fiction Submission”).  Please use the body of the email for your cover letter, citing recent publications, relevant degrees and awards, if applicable.   Please make sure the author’s name and contact information is clearly indicated on the submission itself.

Please limit your submission to no more than five poems, or 7,000 words of prose.

Simultaneous submissions are fine; please let us know if the work has been accepted elsewhere.  Do not send the only copy of your work, as we do not accept responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts.   Please direct:

Poetry Submissions to:  SlushPilePoetry [at] gmail.com

Fiction & Non Fiction Submissions to: SlushPileMag [at] gmail.com

Art Submissions to:  SaraPetras [at] hotmail.com

Book & Movie Reviews:

We are currently looking for reviewers! If you are interested in reviewing for Slush Pile, please write to the editor, attaching two or more recent clips, to the address listed below.

Letters to the Editor:

To contact the Editors, ask questions, or comment about anything Slush Pile related, please direct correspondences to:

onesmartnut [at] gmail.com