Please follow the below guidelines carefully. If you don’t follow them we don’t read your work. Simple as that. And believe me we want to read your work. So here’s what you have to do to get on our good side:

Submissions open on August 30-October 1 for the fall issue. Please submit then.

PROSE

• 3,000 words maximum of fiction or non-fiction.
• Do not submit previously published work (yes, we consider Web sites, blogs, etc. as previously published)

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• Microsoft  or RTF attachment in the submission form. Please include your name and contact information on each page.

POETRY



• Submit up to five poems at a time in a single file (they should be your best poems).
• Do not submit previously published work (we consider Web sites, blogs, etc. as previously published).
• Microsoft  or RTF attachment in the submission form. Please include your name and contact information on each page.

COVER LETTER

• Please include a short paragraph about yourself in the body of the email.
• Also include a link to your Web site.
• We’ll publish your social media info too if you include that.

RIGHTS

• Unfortunately, there is no payment at this time (we wish we could pay you).
• If your work is accepted, it is subject to minor editing and copyrighted upon publication, plus you automatically grant us First Serial Rights to publish it first and Electronic Archival Rights to archive it online.
• Rights revert back to the author upon publication (they really do).
• If a piece of yours is reprinted, please mention it appeared in City Lit Rag (CLR) first (it’s nice).
• We won’t ever share or sell your personal information.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS

• These are fine as long as you notify us when another market accepts your work.
• If another market accepts one or more of your flashes/poems, please contact us.

WHAT WE DON’T WANT

Genre fiction (horror, erotica, romance, sci-fi, chapters of novels or complete novels for that matter, alt lit poetry, etc.)
. Miscellany (interviews, letters, lists, reviews, etc.).