Submitting

Please read our guidelines carefully. Consider looking at our past issues to gain a sense of our publication before submitting your work.

Submission Timeline

Submissions are closed currently.

Submitting Your Work

We accept submissions via Submittable.

We do require no fee to submit your work.

Vessel:

Our "themes" aren’t hardline requirements, or even indicative aesthetically, necessarily. "Vessel" is defined as a ship or a large boat, or as a hollow container - we are your hollow container. 

The point of our themes is much like the point of a poem, in that, there isn’t one, beyond being something to consider.   Our style is questionable. We adore originality and crave creative angles. We want to read writing that shocks our systems awake.  

  • Submissions that do not follow guidelines will not be considered.

  • Contributing artists will receive a complimentary copy of Vessel.  Selected submissions will be published online at Quibblelit.com and promoted through our networks. Their work will then appear in print in Quibble Quarterly - Volume II: Vessel to be published June 25th, 2024 (available by delivery ~first two weeks of July)

  • By submitting, you're offering consent in a royalty-free agreement for the rights to appear online on our platforms and in print in Quibble Quarterly. Don’t worry - we aren’t and have no aim in making money off your story, just platforming it. You retain all rights to your work.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit all writing in .doc or .docx files (visual art can be .PNG or .JPG, please).

Work submitted in PDF or other file formats will be declined without review.

  • We accept works of poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

  • We accept previously published works - with permission from prior platforms.

  • We gladly accept simultaneous submissions. 

You do not need to inform us if you are submitting your work to other publications simultaneously. We simply ask that you notify us as soon as possible if your submission(s) will be published elsewhere.

Poetry

  • Please limit poetry submissions to 3 poems.

  • All poems should be included in a single document, each poem starting on a separate page.

  • Document specifications:

    • Single-spaced

    • Standard, readable typeface (e.g., Times New Roman, Georgia)

    • 12pt font

Fiction & Nonfiction

  • Please limit fiction submissions to a single work of no more than 2,500 words.

  • Document specifications:

    • Double-spaced

    • Standard, readable typeface (e.g., Times New Roman, Georgia)

    • 12pt font

Visual Art

  • Please limit art submissions to 5 images.

  • Images should be high-resolution.

  • Please be sure your images are aligned and cropped properly.

Compensation

At the moment, we can only afford to offer complimentary copies of the print volume to our contributors for agreement to share their work online and in print.

While we wish the compensation were greater, we will champion the heck outta your art, as loudly as we can.

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