Submissions Open

GUIDELINES: Submissions will only be considered if they meet the following criteria:

 

  • Your submission is complete if it contains 2-3 pages with one page being the Bio and 1-2 pages being your poetry or flash non-fiction.
  • Your bio explains who you are, what you are "outside of" and you name the geographic place you are writing about.
  • Submit only one time per submission window. Multiple submissions will not be read.
  • We accept unpublished and previously published material if you retain the rights.
  • We encourage you to submit a photo or other image that compliments or relates to your text.
  • Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
  • Please allow up to 90 days for a response. We will do our best to get back with you well before this. If you don’t hear back from after this time, please feel free to contact us again.
  • If we have published your writing before, please wait one calendar year before submitting again.

 

LITERARY ART: Poetry & Non-Fiction (flash, prose, essay, excerpts) - must address the following:

 

  • THEME: Your work must demonstrate some connection to "a place" in the American West or rural life at large anywhere. You must name the place you are writing about or from. This can be a city, a building, a state, etc. This can also be addressed in your Bio.

  • GENRE: Identify in your email subject line the genre you are submitting - Poetry or Non-Fiction.
  • FORMAT: Word or PDF Only
  • FONT, SPACING, MARGINS: 12pt, Times New Roman. Poetry may be single spaced. Non-Fiction must be double spaced. 1 inch margins
  • PAGE LIMITS: TWO PAGES maximum per submission / Submit to only one category per submission window.
  • IMAGES: (optional) send a photo that inspired or reflects your writing.
  • NO AI GENERATED MATERIAL

 

BIOS:

  • DO send a biographical statement. One page max, double spaced, 1 inch margins, which explains your connection to rural geographies and why you consider yourself an outsider. What are you outside of? How has this influenced your creative vision? We want to know who you are.  We encourage you to submit a photo of you or something related to your submission (one photo per submission).

  • DO NOT send a list of your publications, awards, residencies, workshops or your creative writing or art school education. If your bio contains such information, your submission will not be considered.

 

 

DISCLAIMER:

 

  • We will not publish anything that promotes or contains hateful speech, inflammatory language, social or political rants, or anything we deem offensive, and without artistic merit.

 

PAYMENT:

  • Rabbitbrush is an entirely self-funded endeavor. We cannot pay contributors.

 

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:

submissions@rabbitbrush.org

Executive Editor - Elisa Carlsen

I was raised in Winnemucca - a small, desolate mining town in Northern Nevada. I grew up poor and wild, crashing boonies, roaming ghost towns and talking to God in the sunsets. The future felt like a flat line. I was the black sheep / scapegoat. I wrote teenage death poetry, had queer crushes and never cut my hair. I've never felt like I fit in anywhere. Healers call this trauma. Decades later, a few things have changed. It's been a ride. This is my dream. To create a place for people like me, who've lived a life on the outside looking in and found a measure of strength therein, to share their stories and themselves.


Welcome. I look forward to meeting you...