Submission Guidelines
Please send all work to houseboundmagazine@gmail.com. Attach your poetry/prose to the email as a PDF file.
In the email subject line, please list the genre and your last name. For example: “SUBMISSION: FLASH FICTION - Shea”
We accept Poetry, Flash/Short Fiction, and CNF. Please submit to one category at a time.
- For poetry, send up to 3 poems in one document (each poem should begin on its own page)
- All prose should be under 2,500 words. Single or double-spaced is fine.
In the body of the email, please provide a short third-person bio. A formal cover letter is not required. We want to make it as simple and accessible as possible for you to get your work published.
If your work is accepted by Housebound, we ask for First Electronic Publication Rights as well as non-exclusive Electronic Archival Rights. All rights revert back to the author upon publication. If you republish elsewhere, we ask that you please credit Housebound Magazine as the work’s first publisher.
FAQs
What is the submission window?
There is no cut-off for submissions as we are currently publishing on a rolling basis!
We recognize that a story or a poem’s journey from planting to ripening to sharing/consuming is often a complex, long-term process. Housebound is fashioned to support the breadth of the creative process, not just to acquisitively collect the finished product.
Do you accept simultaneous submissions?
Yes. Just let us know somewhere in the body of your submission email.
Is there a submission fee?
Nope! Submissions are free.
Tips of $5 or more to help keep Housebound alive and less in the red are always appreciated! ↓
Are previously published works eligible?
No. That said, self-published works are fine (personal blogs, social media, etc). If you’re unsure whether your work counts as unpublished, just ask!
When will I hear back about my submission?
You should hear back about your submission within 6 weeks.
What is your AI policy?
We don’t accept works generated by AI or made with the assistance of generative AI. We are most emphatically a no-AI magazine, meaning we do not use any AI tools in our own workflow(s), to write captions, create graphics, draft emails, etc.