Guernica is Open for Submissions!
We are excited to consider your work for publication. Please carefully review our submission guidelines before submitting.
General Guidelines
- Submission Platform: All submissions must be sent via Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or postal mail.
- Familiarize Yourself: The best way to understand our editorial approach is by reading recent issues of Guernica. We encourage you to explore the magazine before submitting.
- Accepted Genres: We welcome submissions in the following genres:
- Fiction
- Nonfiction (personal essays, reportage, etc.)
- Poetry
- Visual art (illustrations, photography, etc.)
- Interviews
Please note: we do not accept pitches. Only completed pieces will be considered. - Original Work: We consider only previously unpublished work. (Note: We do consider previously unpublished translations of work that has been published in another language.)
- Length: While we have no strict word limit, most pieces we publish fall within the 2,000–7,000-word range, with the majority around 4,000–5,000 words.
- Cover Letter: Please include a brief cover letter with your submission that contains:
- Your name
- A short bio
- Contact information
- The title of your submission
- Simultaneous Submissions: Simultaneous submissions are accepted. However, please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Response Time: We aim to respond to submissions within 6 or so months.
Thank you for considering Guernica for your work. We look forward to reading your submissions!
Before submitting, please review the general guidelines at the top of this page.
This form is for journalism/reportage, essays, memoir, criticism, and argument of 2,500 words or more. Please send the full manuscript of an original prose work you would like us to consider.
If yours is a piece of journalism/reportage, please add REPORTAGE to the subject line.
As a reminder, we do not accept pitches, interviews, or book reviews, although we welcome longform critical essays that engage several texts/ideas in a single piece.
Before submitting, please review the general guidelines at the top of this page.
This form is for fiction submissions, which should be no fewer than 2,000 and no more than 7,000 words. Please submit only one story, or one excerpt from an unpublished novel, at a time. Works in translation are especially welcome as long as you can convey the rights to publish the piece.
We do not consider flash fiction; submissions sent in hard copy or via email; and or serialized longer works.
Before submitting, please review the general guidelines at the top of this page.
This form is for submitting poetry. You may submit up to five poems at one time, but please do not submit more than one poetry submission at a time to Guernica.
We only publish original, unpublished poetry. Your work must not have been published elsewhere, including on your personal website or blog. Work in translation may have appeared elsewhere, but not in English, and permissions should be secured before submitting.
As a reminder:
- Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please notify us if the poem is published elsewhere.
- Guernica will hold exclusive print and digital rights to the published poem for 90 days, after which our rights become non-exclusive; your poem will remain on our website in perpetuity.
We do not accept pitches. Please submit the full manuscript you’d like us to wor with. All interviews must contain an introduction (check our Interviews archive for examples). If your interview emphasizes anywhere how lucky you were to get time with your subject, your subject’s generosity in sitting down with you, or otherwise sycophantic feints, we are less likely to run it. Please allow eight weeks before querying about the status of your submission.
Guernica publishes art-related writing that engages with a wide range of timely critical, cultural and political issues. We promote perspectives that demonstrate an international outlook and a strong commitment to examining art’s interaction with the world at large.
We prefer full-length, previously unpublished submissions between 500 and 2,500 words. Only highly original, innovative and well-considered pitches are considered.
Please note that we do not accept academic essays, book or exhibition reviews.
Art and Film Submissions
Video submissions should be less than 8 minutes in length and permanently accessible on a third party hosting site such as YouTube or Vimeo. Please send a link to no more than one work.
Artist and project profiles can take the form studio visits, portfolio views, and short interviews. Please send no more than 10-15 images along with a 150-word description of the project submitted for publication.