Thank you for your interest in Fugue! Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art/hybrid, and reviews are accepted here on Submittable only; please send no more than five poems, two short-shorts, one story, or one essay per submission. For interviews, we accept pitches or completed pieces via email--see guidelines at https://fuguejournal.com/general-submissions.
We welcome, center, and encourage submissions from Black, Indigenous, queer, and trans folks, writers of color, and disabled writers.
2026 Prose Contest submissions should include no more than one short story or one essay per submission in a .doc, .docx (preferred), or .pdf document. Multiple submissions are considered as long as a separate fee is paid for each. We ask that submissions not exceed 7000 words. The contest winner in prose receives $1,000 and publication in Fugue’s 2027 print issue. One runner-up is also published. All submissions will be read by at least two editors, and ten finalists will go on to our judge. All submissions will be considered for general publication in Fugue.
This year's prose judge is Emily Mitchell. Emily Mitchell is the author of three works of fiction, most recently The Church of Divine Electricity from University of Wisconsin Press. Her short stories have appeared in The Sun, Harper's, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. She serves as fiction editor of New England Review and teaches creative writing at the University of Maryland. Her second novel, Far Ocean, about 18th-century botanist and explorer Jeanne Baret, won the 2025 Big Moose Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.
We look forward to reading your work!
2026 Poetry Contest submissions should include 1-3 poems per submission in a .doc, .docx (preferred), or .pdf document. Multiple submissions are considered as long as a separate fee is paid for each. The contest winner in poetry receives $1,000 and publication in Fugue’s 2027 print issue. One runner-up is also published. All submissions will be read by at least two editors, and ten finalists will go on to our judge. All submissions will be considered for general publication in Fugue.
This year's poetry judge is Kimberly Johnson. Kimberly Johnson is a poet, translator, and literary critic. Her work has appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker, Slate, The Iowa Review, PMLA, and Modern Philology. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Utah Arts Council, the Amy Lowell Trust, and the Mellon Foundation, Johnson holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Kimberly Johnson lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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