SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES

We are open for submissions for two reading periods a year: 

Feb. 15 to April 15 

Sept. 15 to Nov. 15

WHO WE ARE

Pangyrus literary magazine is dedicated to making unexpected connections across a wide range of ideas, arts, genres, and geographies. Our name combines Pangea (the world continent) and gyrus (the folds on the cerebral cortex of the brain), with a deliberate echo of “papyrus.” We engage with political and social issues, but edit for writing that will stand the test of time. 

We publish a mix of opinion pieces and reviews, poetry, comics and visual art, memoir and fiction, twice a week online, and twice a year in print.

We're looking for work with a strong point of view that takes us into surprising spaces.

CATEGORIES

For the categories, please see below. If there is a link, then that category is open for submissions.

• Fiction
• Poetry
• Nonfiction — Including our special categories of Zest! (food writing), Schooled (education), In Sickness and In Health (health), Field Notes (science), Generations (family), and Sounding Board (politics). 
• Comics and Art
• By Prior Arrangement (only open to use if you have permission from an editor; tell us who has referred you, please)

WHERE WE PUBLISH

This is a general call for work, with no limit as to subject, and we are proud to feature all accepted work on our website, pangyrus.com. In addition, we select some work to feature in our annual print anthology. Our 15th print issue (2027) has as its theme UNDERCURRENTS. We’re looking for fiction, nonfiction, memoir, graphic work, and poetry that cracks open the surface and gives us a glimpse of the unseen forces — emotional, historical, interpersonal, demiurgic — at work.

WHAT TO EXPECT

We accept simultaneous submissions, asking that you notify us immediately if a work is accepted elsewhere. 

We pay all our authors, with a current rate of $30 per accepted piece. (We only use PayPal for payments.) All accepted work will appear online. Selected work will also appear in our print editions. Upon acceptance of your work, we send a contract.

All submitted work must be wholly original and previously unpublished. We do not accept work created with AI software. Please DO NOT send revisions of your work after you've submitted it.

All messages from Pangyrus about your submissions will come to you via Submittable. Please make sure they aren't going into your spam folder. Here's what Submittable suggests:

https://submittable.help/en/articles/3221476-how-can-i-safelist-notification-emails-from-submittable

Thank you for submitting!