Email and snail mail submissions ARE NOT ACCEPTED and will be discarded unread and without comment.
We use Submishmash to manage most submissions to [PANK]: PANK Magazine, both regular submissions and calls for special issues, our 1,001 Awesome Words Contest; the Little Book Series; and our popular blog-based essay series, This Modern Writer. All open submission categories are listed below. The Little Book Series is currently closed for submissions.
All work is considered for both print and online publication. You cannot only submit work for print consideration.
If you would like to submit a book for review consideration or would like to submit a book review for publication on PANK's blog, please query PANK's Reviews Editor, Amye Archer, amye@pankmagazine.com.
Please note that [PANK] often provides feedback on submissions. We do this to provide some insight into what can be a very mercurial editorial process, nothing more. But we've found this habit of ours unsettles some writers so you may request that we not give you feedback in your cover letter if you so desire. And if ever we wish to see a revision, we will explicitly ask for it, otherwise we don't want to see a revision.
To the end of the road, up country, a far shore, the edge of things, to a place of amalgamation and unplumbed depths, where the known is made and unmade, and where unimagined futures are born, a place inhabited by contradictions, a place of quirk and startling anomaly, [PANK], no soft pink hands allowed.
Now thrill us.
Regular Magazine Submissions
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There are no submission guidelines. We want to see whatever you want to share.If you are submitting more than one poem or short story, please include all work in the SAME Word file.
We really prefer that you not submit PDFs. They're hard for us to work with if we accept your work.
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Tip Jar Submission - $3.00
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When you submit your work to PANK, you can choose to "tip" us $3 when you submit your work and you'll get a $5 discount on any subscription to the print magazine or a $3 discount on a Little Book.Writers are always welcome to submit for free. All submissions will continue to be read and responded to in a very timely manner, sometimes with feedback, sometimes without. The tip does not afford any privileges other than giving you the opportunity to help us do more great things (moving to a semi-annual print schedule, etc.).
We repeat, writers are ALWAYS welcome to submit to free and that will not change.
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This Modern Writer
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For This Modern Writer, we’re looking for essays about writers that extend beyond writing. Tell us something interesting about yourself or how you see the world. These essays are published on the popular PANK blog. If you've got something, send it our way.SUBMIT
Special Issue: Parenting
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A few years ago my sister called me at home urging me to turn on my television. "You'll love this,"she said, "Oprah is talking to mothers who hate their children." My face immediately flushed
with embarrassment, as if someone had pulled aside the dressing room curtain to reveal me in an
inappropriately tight bathing suit.
"Jennie, I don't hate my children," I told her.
"Yes you do," she replied.
And then it occurred to me: I never hated my children, but there were certainly moments during the
past four years when I hated being a mother. Was I evil? Was I a rotten person for sometimes wishing that I could get into my Subaru and just drive, never looking back? I had twins, I assured myself, two infants at one time is an intensity not many people can imagine. There were two diaper changes, twice the nighttime feedings, the constant worry that one will wake up the other...and in the midst of those memories, my guilt was washed away.
Being a parent is hard work. Whether you have ten kids or one, there is a certain space of your life that will never be the same. There are also rewards by the handfuls, just not as immediate as some of us would like. PANK would like to hear from those of you in the trenches. We are looking for stories about becoming a parent or being a parent. We are looking for stories about the side of parenthood that no one ever talks about: the gritty, wind in your face, upwards battle that so many of you fight every day.
We are looking for stories that will show the rest of us there is hope out there, stories of those parents who have been through it, and have come out the other side better for having made the journey.
What we don't want: Ten page stories about how smart, cute, or genius-like your kids are. Stories that will inspire us to call the authorities. Stories that involve a gratuitous amount of breast feeding.
Anything else is fair game.
If you're submitting multiple stories or poems, please include them in ONE file.
Submissions are upon until April 15.
---Amye Archer
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