
If you’d like to be notified by email only, please include your email address and skip the SAE. If the envelope is large enough and you include sufficient postage, we will return the manuscript otherwise, it will be recycled.
Journal submission free#
As soon as we respond, you can feel free to submit again during a reading period. Please send only one story, one essay, or up to five poems, and please wait for our reply before sending more.(Submission Manager will briefly redirect you to Boston University’s secure payment page.) If this is a concern or causes a burden, please feel free to submit by regular mail to avoid the fee. Sending through our online portal costs $3 per submission.This site includes selected pieces from our decades of print issues and everything we’ve published at AGNI Online since its inauguration in 2002. You can familiarize yourself with the magazine by ordering a recent print issue or by perusing the writing that appears here.Our blog features posts by writers who have appeared previously in AGNI or AGNI Online.All manuscripts are read by masthead editors. Though we rely on student interns for many things, they are not involved in considering submissions.We are interested in personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, prose poems, formal poems, blank verse, free verse, short stories, and short shorts we do not publish academic essays or purely journalistic writing.We will consider excerpts if they read as if they were meant to stand alone.We do not publish genre romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction however, we are open to writing that borrows elements from any of these.We have no word limits, though space is at a premium and length sometimes affects our decisions.We consider only work written in English or translated into English.We will not consider writing that has already been published in English, whether in a book, magazine, newspaper, or on an app, a website, a social media feed, or a publicly accessible online community.We encourage submissions from writers of all identities, living anywhere, published and unpublished.Nearly everything we publish is unsolicited.(Submissions mailed in June, July, or August will be returned unread, provided sufficient return postage is included.) Things to know when submitting # We welcome manuscripts by mail between September 1st and May 31st.
Our online Submission Manager is open from September 1st to midnight December 15th, and again from February 15th to midnight May 31st. We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form-poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their truths in their own words and convince us as we read that we’ve found something no one else could have written.
