Please read the submission guidelines in detail.
 

• Use this category for fully created previously unpublished written poetry or prose (creative nonfiction, fiction, or hybrid work)
• Your projects should not appear, in full, on any other platform (YouTube, Spotify, other lit magazines, your published book, your personal website or blog). 
• You must attach the original file as a doc, docx, or pdf. Do not send a link to a file.
• Please specify the genre of your submission in the cover letter.

Poetry: Send us up to 3 poems, up to 15 pages total.

Prose: Send us fiction, essay, or hybrid work, up to 3,000 words in length. 

These submissions are rolling. Our regular issues are released in February and September. 

Deadline is for reading for September issue. 

*If you have a performance, video, audio, or art/graphic piece, please submit in appropriate category.

*Please do not submit your voice recording here. We will contact you upon acceptance to guide you through that part of our process. You will be contacted upon acceptance to arrange to record yourself reading your work or to discuss other options.

Please read the submission guidelines in detail. 

• Use this category for fully created previously unpublished audio/video projects. 
• Your projects should not appear, in full, on any other platform (YouTube, Spotify, your personal website or blog). 
• You must attach the original file. Please email parleylit@gmail.com if any upload issues occur.
• If you do not upload an audio or video file, your submission will be automatically declined.
• Please also upload a written transcription of your submission.

What is literary audio/video? 

Some examples may include:

• An animated poem
• A graphic essay that utilizes a slideshow or other video elements
• A short story that is recorded with sound effects
• Hybrid work that includes original music and/or sound effects that you created.
• A short fiction or nonfiction film.
• A short documentary. (For docuseries or podcast series, submit to COLUMNS)

Lengths below are suggestions. We understand that this type of exploration can be fluid, so we encourage you to submit even if your project doesn't precisely fit the below guidelines.

• Audio/Video length: Up to 20 minutes.

These submissions are rolling. Our regular issues are released in February and September. 

Literary plays or dialog-driven short stories/creative nonfiction should be approximately 5-15 double spaced pages in length. 

For our 2025 issues, we will be offering to cast and record short radio plays. 

All plays will be considered for both categories:

• Literary plays are not produced with audio/video elements and are available to read on our site.
• Radio plays are audio only plays that we would cast and produce in collaboration with Parley Productions

ART

Please submit up to five files for consideration. This is the space to submit static, unmoving, not animated artwork.

You may also submit artifacts such as handwritten work or prose or poetry that requires art to complete it such as an ekphrastic poem. For an example of this, please see Parley Lit

GRAPHIC LIT

Please submit up to 10 pages of graphic lit. This is static, unmoving, not animated literary work that INCLUDES TEXT. 

Examples can include:

• a comic strip
• a picture or series of pictures 
• a diagram of anything (your right foot, your mamaw’s kitchen)
• a treasure map
• art with writing somehow included
• whatever you come up with

All tips from the tip jar submissions go directly to our readers and editorial staff. If you choose to submit using this form, be sure to indicate the genre of your submission. Submission to the tip jar does not guarantee publication. We commit to engaging with your work with the same careful consideration as free submissions. 

Thank you for your consideration and for allowing us time with your work!