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- All submissions must be previously unpublished.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.