Submissions

We’re opening for submissions on September 1st!

When our submissions portal opens, send your work to us on Tally. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay up-to-date.

We accept fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, translations, poetry book reviews, prose book reviews, forthcoming book excerpts, and work for our Palestinian Voices and Ukraine series. We love work that is personal and political and shows that you can write beautifully and incisively about important subjects, whether global or specifically domestic. We want work that had to be written now.

We accept simultaneous submissions. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know at anotherchimagazine@gmail.com.

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Fiction

Maximum length: 5,000 words.

Please submit no more than one fiction piece at a time.

Submit fiction here.

Nonfiction

Maximum length: 6,000 words.

We are currently looking for work engaging with pressing and timely subjects, such as immigration, DEI, layoffs, the affordability crisis, etc. We welcome memoir, reported essays, braided essays, collages, vignettes, literary journalism, oral history, meditations, and other forms of nonfiction. Political in the largest sense.

Please submit no more than one nonfiction piece at a time.

Submit nonfiction here.

Poetry

Please submit 3–5 poems, no more than 7 pages total.

We read all styles of poetry, though we tend to publish work that is more experimental and/or sonically driven.

Submit poetry here.

Palestinian Voices

We are looking for creative work in all genres by Palestinian writers and artists, including members of the Palestinian diaspora. We seek the immediate and the personal, the concrete and specific.

Submit Palestinian Voices here.

Ukrainian Voices

We are looking for nonfiction in any form—including essays, lists, diary entries, art, and notes—about Ukraine and Ukrainians, with the Russian invasion in the foreground or background.

Submit Ukrainian Voices here.

Translations

We welcome translations of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, including excerpts from novels and full-length plays.

Please submit the original text along with your translation. If we wish to publish the translation, we will need written permission from the original writer.

Submit Translations here.

Forthcoming Book Excerpts

We welcome excerpts from books, collections, and anthologies forthcoming from independent presses. We publish both poetry and prose and want to introduce readers to upcoming books before their full release.

Submit Forthcoming here.

Art and Photography

We publish art and welcome visual work in all media. We also publish portfolios by individual artists, including photographers. Please query with a link to your website or attach samples of your work.

Submit Art and Photography here.

Prose and Poetry Book Reviews

We seek reviews of books published by small and university presses, which often receive less review coverage than books from major publishers. We welcome reviews of collections, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and other nonfiction, particularly work that uses a political or analytical lens to examine self, others, and society.

Reviewers: submit Prose Reviews here.
Reviewers: submit Poetry Reviews here.

Are you a publisher or publicist looking to provide an ARC for review? Submit Prose Book Pitches here and Poetry Book Pitches here.

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Submission Fees

We charge a submission fee for some genres to help cover operational costs. We waive this fee for BIPOC writers as a form of literary reparations. BIPOC writers should use the no-fee BIPOC form for their genre when submitting: Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry.

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