Submissions Open


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

 

  • Your bio is your story, your personal struggle, your triumph, your vulnerability. It is not a list of publications and awards or education.
  • 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  • We accept unpublished and previously published material if you retain the rights.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 an author photo or other image that compliments or relates to your text.
  • Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please let us know 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 & Fiction must address the following:

 

  • GENRE: Identify in your email subject line the genre you are submitting - Poetry, Non-Fiction, 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: POETRY - THREE PAGES maximum (could be multiple poems or one longer poem) - NON-FICTION or FICTION - FIVE PAGES maximum (could be multiple shorts or one longer piece or excerpt). 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 your personal story. One page max, double spaced, 1 inch margins, which explains your connection to the American West and/or rural experiences. We want to know what you feel outside of, this could be your family, the norms of culture and community, consumer driven society. How has this influenced you? Does it make you work harder? In short, we want to know who you are, and what your vision is. 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

Our Team

Photo Credit: Vintage Western Graphics Corp.

Executive Editor - Elisa Carlsen

Elisa is from Winnemucca, a small mining town in Northern Nevada. She grew up poor, queer and wild, crashing boonies and talking to God in the sunsets. The family scapegoat, she turned to writing for solace and understanding, then to anarchy, punk rock, ethanol, mysticism and back to writing. She struggles with belonging and feeling a sense of home in this world. She believes strength comes from trying to be gentle...that secrets destroy us…that we are here to learn how to love and fail beautifully.

Photo Credit: Tim West

Poetry Editor - Mattie Achord

Mattie was born as a tornado....on a warm and humid night. Fire rained from the sky and fell onto cool earth. The clouds broke. She broke...so that the sun could shine in. The darkness gave meaning to light, and she appreciates both. (lobotomize the dichotomy). And all those witchy prayers on the wind, give the ancestors a voice. She leans into the knowing.