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

• Your bio is your story, your personal struggle, your triumph, your vulnerability. It is not a list of publications and awards or education. This is as important as your literary submission.
• Submit an author photo or other image that compliments or relates to your text. We love old, childo photos.
• Identify in your Bio your connection to the American West or rural living (globally). This is a journal for people with lived experience in these specific places.
• 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• We accept unpublished and previously published material if you retain the rights.
• All rights revert back to the author upon publication. 
• Simultaneous submissions are welcomed, but please let us know they are and lets 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.

BIOS: It's not the standard bio...

• DO send your personal story in first person narrative and note where you are located geographically, or where your writing was inspired. Bios should be one page max, double spaced, with 1 inch margins in a separate word document. It should explain your connection to the American West and/or rural life (globally). Identify what you feel "outside of". This could be your family, the norms of culture and community, consumer driven society. Write about how this has this influenced you? Does it make you work harder? In short, we want to know who you are, and what motivates you.

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

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 similar format only / NO PDF
• 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.
• NO AI GENERATED MATERIAL

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.
• All rights revert back to the author upon publication.

PAYMENT:

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

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:

submissions@rabbitbrush.org