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.
2024 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 recommend that submissions not exceed 7000 words. The contest winner in prose receives $1,000 and publication in Fugue’s 2025 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 receive brief editorial feedback, and the finalists will receive personalized feedback from a Fugue editor. All submissions will be considered for general publication in Fugue.
This year's prose judge is Lucy Ives. Lucy Ives is a novelist, critic, and poet. Her third novel, Life Is Everywhere, was published by Graywolf Press in 2022. She teaches at Brown University's Department in Literary Arts.
We look forward to reading your work!
2024 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 2025 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 receive brief editorial feedback, and the finalists will receive personalized feedback from a Fugue editor. All submissions will be considered for general publication in Fugue.
This year's poetry judge is Divya Victor. Divya Victor is is the author of CURB from Nightboat Books. CURB is the winner of the 2022 PEN America Open Book Award and the winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. It was also a finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award (Poetry). She is also the author of KITH (Fence Books/ Book*hug); Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays (Merve Verlag, trans. Lena Schmidt); NATURAL SUBJECTS (Trembling Pillow), UNSUB (Insert Blanc), THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR MOUTH (Les Figues). Her work has been collected in numerous venues, including BOMB, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing, The Best American Experimental Writing, POETRY, The Yale Review, American Poetry Review, and boundary2. She is a 2023 PEN Affiliated Fellow at Civitella Ranieri and a collaborator on an Andrew Mellon Just Futures grant. She has been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (L.A.C.E.). Her work has been performed or installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Los Angeles, The National Gallery of Singapore, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition (L.A.C.E.) and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
She has been an editor at Jacket2 (United States), Ethos Books (Singapore), Invisible Publishing (Canada) and Book*hug Press (Canada). Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Polish and Czech. She is currently an Associate Professor of English and Writing at Michigan State University, where she is the Director of the Creative Writing Program.
We look forward to reading your work!
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