Submit to Extract(s)
Extract(s) is looking for submissions for our Poems, Stories, and Haiku features, as well as excerpts from upcoming novels, memoirs, and poetry and story collections. We will take submissions via our online submission manager only. We are not yet accepting self-published work.
If you are interested in having “In Place” feature your writing program/group, please send a formal query to us here.
Guidelines for Submission
Poetry
Please submit up to five (5) poems. We are looking for smart, fresh,well-crafted pieces to consider. If you took a look through our personal poetry collection you would find writers who challenge us, who move us, and who we cannot help but share with others. Do you think you have a poem that will take off the top of our head? Submit now! Our submission period is always open, but please wait at least six months before sending another.
Prose
Please submit one short story (fiction or non-fiction) of no more than 1,000 words. We are looking for fresh, well-crafted stories that make us cry and laugh and think. We want to be moved in some fundamental way in as few words as possible. Our readers should carry your characters with them as they go about the rest of their day—or longer. Our submission period is always open, but please wait at least six months before sending another.
Mid-Week Feature
Please submit up to three pieces of work that presents narratives and poetry in non-traditional ways. Like our original Haiku feature, we embrace work that uses visual elements to enhance storytelling and deepen meaning. We are looking for graphic poems, comics, narrative photography, video poems, short films, and things we haven’t even imagined yet. We encourage collaborative submissions in this category. Our primary requirements remain the same: quality work that sticks with us.
Excerpts
Please submit no more than 1,000 words of prose and three poems from a book that has been published in the past three months or will be published in the coming weeks/months/year. We will accept excerpts from publishers and writers, but are not yet accepting self-published work.
Do you consider photos previously on facebook self-published?
If you are thinking about submitting them for the Haiku feature, as long as they weren’t paired with a haiku on FB you should be fine.
I hate waiting to submit work again. Just sayin’.
hey, if a work has been acccepted here do we still have to wait for six months or can we submit again some new stuff?
You can submit new stuff in a different category any time and we’ll consider it right away. If we’ve published you before, we’d like to give other folks a shot (hence the six month thing) but if we really love it, we’ll publish it.
If an author’s original work has been published here, will a work she has translated be considered as her work, so she will have to wait 6 months, or a work by the original author, and therefore exempt from the 6 month rule.
Technically not hers, so exempt from 6-month rule.