(The information below has been copied from Mistake House Magazine‘s website.)
Deadline: March 15, 2025
About:
Mistake House Magazine seeks student work that playfully defies easy categorization and pushes the boundaries of form. In our May 2020 issue, Mistake House Magazine rolled out a new tag line: a space between ordinary and odd. Simply, we offer an open invitation to send us work with heart and work that tells us something fresh about the ordinary and odd world we think we know.
We welcome variety in subject, form, and perspective, including all modes of literary writing from domestic realism to speculative fiction to experimental poetry and beyond.
Submitting writers should want their work to contribute to a larger dialogue in the world. Mistake House Magazine seeks to participate in the literary community’s urgent efforts to draw on moral courage to write about pressing issues in the world today. We believe that writing honestly about current human issues is a way to be involved and make a positive impact.
Each year our editors award a $100 Editors’ Prize in Fiction, Poetry, and Photography. Published student work appears alongside prominent poets and artists featured in our Soap Bubble Set.
Submission Guidelines:
- Works in Translation
- While we publish all works in English, we welcome the opportunity to publish global submissions and will accept work in any language. However, since we do not have an editorial staff to handle translation into English, we ask that submissions in languages other than English be accompanied by an English translation. If accepted, Mistake House will publish both versions, the original and the author’s English translation, side by side.
- While we publish all works in English, we welcome the opportunity to publish global submissions and will accept work in any language. However, since we do not have an editorial staff to handle translation into English, we ask that submissions in languages other than English be accompanied by an English translation. If accepted, Mistake House will publish both versions, the original and the author’s English translation, side by side.
- A Call for Photography
- Mistake House Magazine also considers submissions of original photography by students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs. In photographic submissions, too, we are particularly interested work expressive of documentary poetics. Submitted photographs should speak to our editorial mission and to the “space between ordinary and odd” in which we currently find ourselves.
- Mistake House Magazine also considers submissions of original photography by students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate programs. In photographic submissions, too, we are particularly interested work expressive of documentary poetics. Submitted photographs should speak to our editorial mission and to the “space between ordinary and odd” in which we currently find ourselves.
- The Basics
- Please provide a cover letter—no longer than one page—including: a brief bio; the name of the college or university you attend and your degree program or major; your contact info: and a brief statement about why your submitted work is a good fit for Mistake House.
- The submission fee of $5 helps to defray our operating expenses.
- Mistake House acquires first North American publication rights. All rights revert to the author after publication, though we request acknowledgement of first appearance in this journal.
- We accept the following as Word documents or PDFs only:
- Fiction: one story, preferred maximum 5,000 words
- Poetry: up to three poems, preferred maximum 40 lines per poem
- We accept the following as 300 dpi jpegs or tiffs:
- Photography: black and white or color, up to three photographs
- Three Editor’s Prizes of $100 are offered annually: one for fiction, one for poetry, and one for photography. Prizes will be announced upon publication on May 1, 2025.
Submissions page: https://mistakehouse.submittable.com/submit
Mistake House Magazine is an online literary journal published by students at Principia College.