We publish:

Flash fiction, poetry, art, and letters to whatever needs addressing from writers of any background or experience. Please see specific guidelines for word count and other details. We accept original, previously unpublished work (unpublished includes social media, personal blogs or websites). We do not accept AI-generated work. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, and good luck! Please let us know if a piece has been taken so we can congratulate you. We aim to respond within two months, usually faster but maybe a little longer at times.

We’re looking for:

The liberated moment, whether that comes from a gentle easing or a tornado. We like words that yearn, ache, comfort, seek, bristle, explore, prick, navigate, love. Mythic, dreamy and poetic welcome. Unafraid, unself-conscious and unapologetic welcome. TiaC is not afraid of softness, sentiment is better than cleverness if it’s truthful. Feel free to be embarrassing. We like the unintentional misfits, work that can’t help but slip between gaps. We like negative spaces. We’re not hung up on genre and we encourage joy. Creating is joyful, right? Confused? Try us anyway. We’ll let you know if it isn’t right for us but we’ll be nice about it.

We’re not looking for:

You know all those places that ask for propulsive words that tear into your throat and shake? That’s not us. Not saying don’t send your propulsive, plot-heavy work, we may love it. But we’re more likely to react to words that float. Parody isn’t a big hit, though humour is good. No overt politics, gratuitous or hateful anything. We have a softer spot for searchers than ‘I have all the answers and let me tell you about it’ vibes.

Where do I submit?

Email Submit@templeinacity.com Make it as easy as possible for us to keep track (we’re volunteer over here) by putting in the subject line SUBMISSION: your name, submission genre and title.

Please include a short 3rd person bio in your email, your real name and any pen name you’d like to go by plus any social handles or personal website you’d like published with your bio. Cover letters are optional, feel free to say hi but we won’t penalize you for wanting your work to speak for itself. Please submit to one category at a time and wait until we respond before sending more. No PDFs or Google docs. Anything that doesn’t follow guidelines may go unread.

Guidelines

Please submit to one category at a time and wait until we have responded before sending more. Please double space your work; Times New Roman 12 point is appreciated. Poetry can be single spaced.

• Flash fiction: Up to 2 pieces, maximum 1,000 words each but we’re more likely to be awed by 800 or less. Submit in one .doc or .docx file
• Poetry: Up to 3 poems in one .doc file. Poetry requiring special formatting is admired but not doable at TiaC. Submit in one .doc or doc.x file
• Letters to whatever needs addressing: Limit of 1 per submission, up to 500 words. Honesty, confession and release are the aims, but we are not lawyers at TiaC; the defamatory or libellous are beyond our capacity to publish. Submit in .doc or .docx file.
• Art: Up to three pieces per submission as 1000-1500 pixels wide .jpeg files.

Money and rights

We are not currently a paying publication and do not charge submission fees. We ask for first-time electronic publishing. All other rights belong to you, but we’d love acknowledgement as the first publisher if you republish in the future.

Ready to submit?

Email submit@templeinacity.com