Submission Periods
Artist Spotlight – Ongoing
Short Fiction – through August 31, 2024
Guidelines for Writers:
- All rights revert to the author upon publication. If your original work is later reprinted elsewhere, we ask that you please note its first publication here.
- Do not submit previously published work. We require first serial rights for accepted works. This includes work published on personal blogs and social media.
- Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as they are indicated as such and the submission is withdrawn from Submittable immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.
- Literary Contributors receive a $0.02 per word honoraria for their selected work of 2,500 or less words.
- Given our seasonal genre format, we only accept a small percentage of the submissions received.
- We recommend contributors promote published work on their social media accounts.
- We promote all publications on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We also feature publications in our newsletter.
- Reading fee: $5 per submission of 2,500 words or less.
- Click graphic below to view our submission manager.
Guidelines for Artist Spotlight (Visual Artists):
- Visual artists should submit via Submittable:
- a link to their online portfolio (Instagram, website, web page, etc.)
- a short bio
- artist statement
- and three high-resolution .jpeg images that best represent their body of work
- Please DO NOT email submissions.
- Open only to visual artists.
- Fee: free
The length of time between acceptance and publication can be three to four months.
We shall do our best to respond to submitters within two-four months, but in some cases, this period may be longer. If you have not received a response from us within 120 days, please send an email inquiry to editor@diggingpress.com.
Best of luck!
Accepted works will be promoted in our online journal, and at our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.
With permission from our contributors, we may include accepted works in promotional material for Digging Through The Fat and Digging Press, LLC.
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