Submission Guidelines
ISSUE III Submissions open soon! [July 20 – September 15, 2021]
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Walled City Journal (previously called Walled City Literary Review) is a quarterly magazine containing poetry, prose, and hybrids. We want work that makes us feel something, and writing that is thoughtful-provoking and powerful.
We do not accept pieces that marginalise communities or engage in promoting any one of the negative -isms (e.g. racism, sexism).
We do accept work that’s close to your heart, moves you, allows you to love yourself a little bit more.
We ONLY accept previously unpublished work. Simultaneous submissions are OKAY, just let us know as soon as its accepted somewhere else.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Send us your work using Google Forms linked under each category. You may submit to all three categories, but kindly do not submit to each category more than once during a reading period.
We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you inform us upon acceptance from the other magazines immediately.
RESPONSE TIME & PAYMENT
Our standard reply time is 2 weeks after submission date.
We are a not a paid publication but would show off your work on all our platforms!
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at walledcityjournal@gmail.com
RIGHTS
We acquire First Serial Rights to the works that we accept for publication. Upon acceptance, your piece may not appear anywhere else until we publish it—at which point the rights revert back to you, the contributor.
Please credit The Walled City Journal as first publisher when you republish work that originated with us. We also reserve the right to archive, reprint, and of course promote your writing or art.
USE THE FOLLOWING FORMS FOR FREE REGULAR SUBMISSIONS.
Expedited Responses & Responses with Feedback
If you are interested in receiving expedited response, response with editorial feedback, expedited response with editorial feedback, OR one-on-one editing session with an editor, we have just the thing for you.
To avail these services, we charge a small fee. We use this money to keep our website running and tip our team members.
Select one of the following options, and visit our ko-fi page to make a donation.
$3 USD for general feedback
$5 USD for 24-hour response
$5 USD for editorial feedback
$10 USD for 24-response with editorial feedback
$15 USD for ONE 30-minutes one-on-one editing session with an editor
All paid submissions MUST be made using the form below.
PROCEDURE FOR PAID SUBMISSIONS
