online publication submissions are open
Accepting submissions between February 1-14th, 2022.
tenderness is accepting submissions of poetry and prose for online publication during the dates above. read the following guidelines (plz) and email your submissions to tendernessyea@gmail.com <3
we reject racism, fascism, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, capitalism, and all other forms of hegemonic oppression. we refuse to publish, promote, or associate with anyone whose actions contribute to oppression. Don’t bother sending us work if you are one of those people.
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EVERY SUBMISSION
Send us a third person bio.
Send us the complete submission in a single word doc or pdf file.
POETRY
Send up to 5 poems to tendernessyea@gmail.com. If you send more than five poems, they better be the best poems we’ve ever read. We’re serious.
PROSE
Send your fiction / nonfiction of up to 1750 words to tendernessyea@gmail.com. Feel free to send multiple shorts at once, so long as the total word count of your submission is under 1750 words. We are specifically seeking flash prose under 750 words.
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MANUSCRIPTS
We’re not in search of manuscripts at this time. When we’re on the hunt for one, we will post about it here and on social media.
FIRST TIME SUBMITTING TO A LIT MAG?
Joseph Parker Okay has written an excellent guide to writing cover letters and submitting to lit mags, which you can access here: https://gumroad.com/l/saEoz
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PAYING OUR AUTHORS
Unfortunately the only authors we can afford to pay are those that we publish in print. Online publication isn’t paid simply because it’s free for people to access whereas people are paying to read the print books. We wish this wasn’t the case, we wish that we could give everyone we publish a boat-load of money, but we can’t. And we understand if you choose to not submit to us because of that.