Link to submission form below
Always open. Rolling publication. Poetry and art only. (Prose poetry is fine, you hooligans, and honestly we could be convinced on flash pieces…).
Art Guidelines are on their own at the bottom.
Here’s how this works:
The gist: you have to decide which reader you’re submitting to. Taylor or Martheaus. Our styles are different. You gotta play favorites and decide which of our tastes might be the best fit for your work. Then you send that reader your poems and hope you chose correctly…
Once you get accepted by one of us, you are on that “team” for life!!!!! (Or until you submit poems to the other reader and get accepted by them as well…then things get wild.)
(For ideas about what each of us like, you can head on over to our “About” section.
What we accept:
-One to three (1-3) poems (whatever that means to you, any length, any style, fr go crazy).
-Sim subs are great!!! Send your work everywhere! We do that too! Just please let us know if you need to pull a poem. Please email submit@brawllit.com with the subject line [ Withdrawal - Full Name ].
-We encourage submissions from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women-identified, Palestinian, emerging, and disabled writers, as well as submissions from educators and any other historically marginalized writers.
What we will not accept:
-Previously published work (even stuff on social media sorry).
-AI-generated work. While there is space for AI written work somewhere, this is not that space. We want the humanness.
General submission guidelines:
-Please put all poems (with no other info) into one (1) document.
-We prefer docx/doc !! Only send us a PDF if your formatting is off the walls cray-cray (and if you need other accommodations just shoot us an email).
-The link to our submission portal for poetry is below! Please make sure you select who you want to read your submission. And please send poetry through the submission portal only.
-The submission portal is for poetry only. Art guidelines are below!
-Please only submit one (1) submission at a time.
-If you are rejected, please wait one month before submitting again. If you get accepted, please wait 6 months before submitting again.
-If you submit before you’ve heard back from us, or you try sneaking a submission to both Taylor and Martheaus at the same time your submission(s) will all be ignored.
-We aren’t too concerned with cover letters, like truly just send us some poems. Or let us know what your favorite dinosaur is.
Art Guidelines:
-Submit in whatever format is best for your work. We will figure it out.
-Send like 10 (ish) max things.
-email to submit@brawllit.com
-Art submissions are judged by both Taylor and Martheaus.
- Subject line should be [YOUR NAME Art for the Brawlers]
Ex: “Art - Katey Funderburgh”
Rights:
We acquire First North American serial rights, and rights revert to the author upon publication. We ask to be acknowledged in any future reprints.
We are also listed on Duotrope. Please feel free to track your submission there if you normally do so.
Response Time:
-We aim to respond within 3 months. If you haven’t heard from us after 4 months, feel free to reach out.
-Expedited 1 week responses available (info below).
Payment:
-General submissions are and always will be free
-We have an option for expedited responses. Please Venmo $5 to @brawllit (linked here) and include your full name in the Venmo note, along with the tag “expedited”. We also have PayPal for international writers. Just shoot us an email and we’ll send it over.
-During the summer, we offer free feedback to all submitters (who want it!) but during the academic year, in order to protect our time as students, we offer feedback with a venmo payment of $5! Same Venmo as above, just add your full name + “feedback”
-We also accept and appreciate any donations to our tip jar. Same Venmo as above! Put Tip Jar in your note (:
-We don’t make any money off of this! Right now we are saving up to pay writers! As of September 9th, 2024 we are 30% of the way to our fundraising goal!
