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Hi! We're BROTH, a literary magazine for your strange writing.PURCHASE ISSUE 1 FROM OUR ONLINE SHOP brothzine.bigcartel.com

Submissions for issue 2 are now OPEN!
Submit your work using this form.

Submission guidelines

We accept poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, and particularly encourage submissions that use hybrid forms.
We want to read 'weird' writing - whatever that means to you! We're interested in writing that breaks conventions and resists categorisation; something that feels a little 'off', or that engages with a topic from an unusual perspective.

  • Poetry: up to 3 poems, 150 lines total.

  • Prose: maximum 1 piece per issue of either fiction or creative non-fiction, 1,500 words total.

  • Hybrid: We welcome hybrid work in both form and content, and greatly encourage writing submissions that don't fit neatly into a category. Please follow the guidelines on length for poetry and prose depending which fits your work best.

  • Please submit work only as a .docx file. If work uses a hybrid/unusual/concrete form, please also provide a PDF copy.

  • Title your file as: firstname _ lastname_fiction OR firstname_lastname_nonfic OR firstname_lastname_poetry OR firstname_lastname_hybrid.

  • All work must be previously unpublished, in print or online.

  • We will consider simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted elsewhere.

  • If we publish your work, please wait at least 1 issue cycle before sending us work again; this is to ensure a diversity of authors.

  • Submit your work using this form. (submissions close Sunday 31st March at 11.59pm).

BROTH is a non-profit, volunteer run magazine, established in 2022. Please note that presently we are unable to pay contributors for published work.