phoebe is now accepting submissions for its winter 2025 print issue, 54.1.
The phoebe nonfiction team is looking for personal, lyric, and journalistic essays (and everything in between!) that embrace complexity and explore unique topics, ideas, and connections. We are excited by nonfiction that reveals larger truths about the self and the world through unique lenses, representing diverse identities and voices with intellectual and emotional honesty. We also appreciate essays engaging with research and history. Teach us something new! Submitted work should be stand-alone. On our pages, we aim for a mixture of brevity and breadth from both emerging and experienced writers. We approach all essays with care and respect, and we especially welcome essays with BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and/or trans perspectives. 🙂
General Guidelines:
- All entries should include a cover letter with the submission’s title and word count as well as the author’s contact information (name, mailing address, and email address) and a brief bio.
- We accept simultaneous submissions. However, if your submission is accepted by another publication or otherwise is no longer available, please use Submittable to withdraw it as soon as possible.
- You may submit multiple entries.
- Please submit only one work per entry.
- We do not consider previously published work or reprints.
- Please submit your work in standard manuscript format and as a Microsoft Word document (or compatible).
- We do not accept submissions through e-mail or physical mail. All submissions must be made through our Submittable forms.
- Additional guidelines can be found here: https://phoebejournal.com/submissions/
SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission. We do not have a strict word limit for prose; however, nonfiction pieces longer than 4,000 words will need to be extraordinary.
PAYMENT: $30 per accepted flash or full-length essay, as well as a copy of the print issue upon publication.
