Submissions



Poetry Guidelines:
  • Up to 4 poems.
  • Submit via email to our poetry editor:
    poetry [at] verbalpyrotechnics [dot] com

Fiction Guidelines:
  • Only one story per submission.
  • No more than 4,000 words.
  • Submit via email to our fiction editor:
    fiction [at] verbalpyrotechnics [dot] com

Non-Fiction Guidelines:
  • Only one essay per submission.
  • No more than 4,000 words.
  • Submit via email to our non-fiction editor:
    nonfiction [at] verbalpyrotechnics [dot] com 

Comics Guidelines:
  • Submit via email to our comics editor:
    comics [at] verbalpyrotechnics [dot] com 


Additional Information:
  • Please attach all files as MS Word documents (.doc files only)
  • We only accept previously unpublished work and material original to the author.
  • While we would like to be a paying market, we are unable to pay our writers at this time.
  • Authors will be notified within 10 weeks of submitting. Please do not send us another submission until we have replied to you about your piece currently under review.
  • Simultaneous submissions are OK as long as you let us know and if your piece is accepted elsewhere you must notify us.
  • If your work is selected, verbal Pyrotechnics retains first digital publishing rights and reserves the right to keep your piece in our archive and/or publish it in print form.