SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 1ST-OCTOBER 15TH
***ANNOUNCEMENT*** WITH THE EXCEPTION OF REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS WE WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FROM OUR EMAIL ACCOUNTS INSTEAD WE WILL BE USING DUOSUMA, & WE WILL BEGIN TO CHARGE $3.00 FOR SUBMISSIONS LINK IS SHOWN BELOW
***ALTHOUGH THE FEE IS THERE, WE ALSO HAVE NO PROBLEM ISSUING A FINANCIAL HARDSHIP WAIVER, FOR THE WAIVER BE SURE TO EMAIL AT SUBMISSIONS.VARIETYPACK@GMAIL.COM WITH THE WORDS “FEE WAIVER IN THE SUBJECT LINE***
***ANY OTHER EMAILS SENT OUTSIDE OF GENERAL INQUIRIES, SUBMISSION QUESTIONS, REVIEW/INTERVIEW SUBMISSIONS, AND FEE WAIVER SUBMISSIONS WILL BE RETURNED UNREAD, AND AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED***
General guidelines: Please greet the editors! Our names or “Hey editors” is fine :), include a word count for all fiction and non-fiction in the email body, and include a brief 3rd person bio including your pronouns and any social media handles you have (Instagram & Twitter).
Please continue below to find more specific guidelines for each genre:
Fiction
- Flash Fiction – Up to 1,000. Up to three pieces in ONE Document
- Short Fiction/Novellette – Between 1,001 and 9,000 words. Anything over 1,000 words please only submit ONE piece at a time
- The preferred format is Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12-point font
- Please also adhere to our guidelines and send only one submission per reading period.
Nonfiction
- Send up to 3 NF pieces, a maximum of 5,000 words. If sending multiple CNF pieces/essays send all in one document. Please do not exceed 1,500 words per piece if you plan to send three CNF pieces, unless solicited by editor. Please include word count in the body of your email
- The preferred format is Times New Roman, double-spaced, 12-point font.
Poetry
- Send us your ghazals, sonnets, haikus, senryu, diptychs, triptychs, prose poems, sestinas, pantoums, other traditional forms, free verse, experimental forms, we’re open to anything, though epic poems will be a hard sell for sure
- The preferred format is Times New Roman, single-spaced, 12-point font.
- Send up to 4 poems in ONE document.
Visual Arts/Multimedia
- Our visual arts submissions include a wide net of VA work, from illustrations to photography to screen prints to comics to collages to full blown comics/cartoons!
- Send up to four pieces of artwork at a time, due to requirements of Duosoma, please send your work in separate files, as opposed to all-in-one document.
Reviews/Interviews
NOTE: Reviews and Interviews will be the only subjects you can submit through our email accounts still! Submit your finished interview or review to varietypackreviews@gmail.com
- We will be accepting the following for REVIEWS:
- Books
- Albums/Vinyl/EPs
- Television series
- Films
- Theatrical productions
- Visual Art exhibits
- We also are a place for INTERVIEWS for the same authors/artists for the following listed above, our previous interviews have been with everyone from Magazine Editors, to Authors
- Please also be aware, we are seeking reviews, NOT media to review. However, if you do have a book to promote or a forthcoming play, or maybe even something entirely different, we’re open to interviews, so hit us up, let’s converse!
- We have also on occasion have our editors solicit their own interviews with others
SUBMISSIONS HOUSEKEEPING
Variety Pack takes pride in being a journal of inclusivity, so we will accept submissions from all walks of life. We do try to stray away from work with overtly graphic sex and violence, for obvious reasons. We have a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for racism, misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, islamophobia, antisemitism, fatphobia, or any other writing along those lines. Also please adhere to our formats and guidelines listed below. Please adhere to the dates we have open for submissions via our social media handles on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Be sure to also check out our News/Announcements sections for updates too.
ANYTHING sent before and/or after our reading period is open, will be deleted and unread. None of us here want to discourage anyone from submitting their work, so please respect our deadlines, follow our social media updates, as we work hard to make sure both are posted.
Please send us your work with either .doc, .docx, as your attachment (Please do NOT send your work as a PDF). Also, in your submission include a cover letter, including your name (and/or preferred pen name), maybe a quick hello/standard greeting, and a brief bio under 150 words.
We absolutely will NOT accept any written or visual work created through generative AI, we can agree AI has a potential place in our society, destroying the fabric of entire literary arts community, and destroying town after town with their eyesore excuses of data centers ain’t either of them.
Variety Pack acquires the First Electronic Rights and Non-exclusive Archival Rights. All other rights remain with the author. All rights revert back to author, 60 days after publication. If you reprint your piece elsewhere, we’d love to be included in the acknowledgments.
Simultaneous submissions are okay, but we do not accept previously published pieces, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere… CONGRATS, but also please withdraw your submission once that’s the case.
We’ll NO LONGER be accepting multiple submissions in multiple categories. ONE CATEGORY TO CHOOSE FROM. We love to see other writers branch out into different genres, but we have seen the space this can also take up. Ex: say publishing someone who has a really great essay and has a poem published in the same issue, while we appreciate showcasing both talents it limits the space for new writers to find a home for their piece.
We usually respond to submissions between the end of our reading period and the week before the release date of any given issue.
We are NOW a PAYING MARKET! WOOT! WOOT! $13 for poetry and visual art; $23 for prose.
Payment will be made via PayPal, Ca$happ, or Venmo!
We will not be able to pay for interviews/reviews at this time (We hope to change that in the future)
Any further questions please feel free to query us at submissions.varietypack@gmail.com