SUBMIT TO DERAILLEUR PRESS:

We strongly encourage submissions from trans/fem/nonbinary/gender nonconforming, LGBQ+, disabled, and BIPOC writers.  It is important to us that we give your art space and volume. 
Open Submission Windows:

Mundane Joys | A poetry anthology
Open through February 14, 2021
 
Derailleur Press is looking for poems about joys, specifically simple joys. Things that would be trivial, trite, or inconsequential— if they didn’t make you happy. Please send us the unexpected ladybugs on your windowsill, or the way your mom flicks her hair out of her eyes. A middle school inside joke remembered well into adulthood. Anything, everything, please. We are trying to remember the way being human is, in large part, smiling privately at silly little things. 

Submissions should be:
  • poetry shorter than thirty (30) lines in length
  • a maximum of three (3) poems per poet
  • attached as a .docx or .pdf to an email 
  • sent to derailleurpress@gmail.com with the subject line "Mundane Joys Submission; YOUR NAME"
Rolling Submission Windows:

The Rail | An online literary magazine
Open indefinitely
 
We are currently accepting submissions across poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We love work that 'doesn't just get your gears turning— but shifts them entirely.'

Submissions should be:
  • poetry shorter than ninety (90) lines
                                          OR
  • fiction/nonfiction prose shorter than 7,500 words
  • attached as a .docx or .pdf to an email 
  • sent to derailleurpress@gmail.com with the subject line "The Rail Submission; YOUR NAME"
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