General Guidelines and Information for All Submissions
- Submissions are welcomed continuously and the journal is published quarterly on the first days of March, June, September, and December.
- Every Issue is released as a web issue, a print issue, and also as a fully listenable audio issue produced by professional voice actors.
- Accepted work might also be displayed in the Featured Work section of our website prior to or after publication.
- All submissions must be previously unpublished. We consider works posted to social media sites, blogs, or forums to be published.
- Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. You are always welcome to withdraw an individual piece via Submittable message, rather than the entire submission.
- Please visit our website prior to submitting. Valuable insight into what we are seeking is available there.
- Please note, for accessibility purposes, we publish audio recordings by professional voice actors alongside each text publication. We aim for our audio issues to be audiobook quality recordings, and for this reason, we use our own in-house staff of voice artists whom we know can meet our technical specifications.
- Poetry submissions should contain 3-5 poems, with each poem on a new page, not to exceed 10 pages. Poems should be formatted as the author wishes them to appear once published.
- All submissions should be submitted in a single DOC or DOCX file type.
- Hybrid and combined submissions are welcome, as long as they do not exceed 10 pages.
If you are able to pay our reading fee, please consider doing so via our paid submission portals. We are a registered 501c3 non-profit, and we depend on submission fees to pay our operating costs. All staff donate their time and effort.
If you are currently experiencing economic hardship and cost is prohibitive to your ability to send your work to Passengers Journal for consideration, please use this submission portal to submit for free.
- Poetry submissions should contain 3-5 poems, with each poem on a new page, not to exceed 10 pages. Poems should be formatted as the author wishes them to appear once published. All submissions should be submitted in a single DOC or DOCX file type. Hybrid and combined submissions are welcome, as long as they do not exceed 10 pages.
- We accept fiction, memoir, essays, science fiction, flash fiction, and more.
- Please submit a single piece per submission. If you attach more than one piece, we will only read and consider the first one in the submission.
- Flash should be in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, for a maximum of 1500 words.
- Longer prose should be in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, between 1500 and 7500 words.
- Please notate in your cover letter the word count of your piece, and whether your piece is fiction or nonfiction.
- All submissions should be submitted as a DOC or DOCX file type.
- Hybrid submissions are welcome, as long as they do not exceed 7500 words.
If you are able to pay our reading fee, please consider doing so via our paid submission portals. We are a registered 501c3 non-profit, and we depend on submission fees to pay our operating costs. All staff donate their time and effort.
If you are currently experiencing economic hardship and cost is prohibitive to your ability to send your work to Passengers Journal for consideration, please use this submission portal to submit for free.
- Prose submissions: We accept fiction, memoir, essays, science fiction, flash fiction, and more. Please submit a single piece per submission. If you attach more than one piece, we will only read and consider the first one in the submission. Flash should be in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, for a maximum of 1500 words. Longer prose should be in 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, between 1500 and 7500 words. Please notate in your cover letter the word count of your piece, and whether your piece is fiction or nonfiction. All submissions should be submitted as a DOC or DOCX file type. Hybrid submissions are welcome, as long as they do not exceed 7500 words.
Visual artists are welcome to submit up to five pieces in any of the accepted formats.
We are currently accepting application for 1 workshop:
Passengers Open Workshop with Workshop Coordinator/Assistant Poetry Editor Syd Shaw
Workshop Description: Welcome to the Passengers Open Workshop! This workshop does not have a theme like other Passengers offerings. Instead, we are inviting you to bring whatever work you have, and share it in a roundtable with other participants. This will offer a unique opportunity to give and receive feedback from peers, and receive personal feedback from a Passengers editor.
Workshops for this coming cycle will be Monday evenings, 5pm Pacific Time. We are currently taking applicants for April/May. Workshops will run for six weeks, and each workshop will be 1 - 1.5 hours. During that time, we will read and provide feedback on one poem per participant.
Schedule & Cost
Each session will be 4 - 6 participants. We will reach out to accepted participants when we receive enough applications to assemble a cohort.
The cost for this workshop, if accepted, is $150 for four weeks/sessions. If you would like to request financial assistance or a scholarship but are still interested in participating, please indicate this in your application. A request for scholarship funds does not affect acceptance. Please be aware that we are unable to offer full scholarships to participants at this time, and we therefore ask that everyone pay something to attend. We have a limited budget of funds for each session and we try to ensure that our funds are spread among all participants who request assistance.
About the Facilitator
Syd Shaw is a poet from the San Fernando Valley. She writes about love, witchcraft, and body horror. Syd is Workshop Coordinator and Assistant Poetry Editor at Passengers Journal, and has a degree in creative writing from Northwestern University. Syd has previously been published in Cathexis Northwest, Sad Girls Club, Ember Chasm, Waxing & Waning, Eclectica Magazine, Panoply Zine, and The London Reader, among others. Syd’s work can be found on twitter/ instagram @sidlantro or at https://sydshaw.carrd.co