SUBMISSIONS PROCESS
** SUMMER 2020 UPDATE**
The bedfellows team is currently reading for our anthology issue, Little Black Book, set to publish at the end of the year. If you are a previously published author of ours and are submitting to this special issue (issue ten), we are eager to read your new work!
If you are sending an unsolicited submission, please note that we are not reading new submissions at this time. Fel free to get in touch, anyway! We would be happy to file your submission for issue eleven consideration; we understand if you would like to withdraw at any point due to our biannual schedule.
bedfellows is primarily solicitation-based. we prefer to find & get to know writers in a community-focused way-- at readings, in other literary magazines, word-of-mouth, social media, etc.-- instead of waiting for them to come to us. we feel that representation of a wide range of perspectives & identities can only happen if editors are proactive in their efforts to amplify the work of women, queer & trans* folks, POC, & other marginalized voices.
twice a year, the editors compile a list of writers whom we want to feature & solicit them prior to putting together an issue. this may be the opposite of reading blind, but it doesn’t mean that we solicit based on where writers have been published, which awards they’ve won, or how many followers they have on whatever platform. we want readers to experience bedfellows with equal interest in each piece & each writer, so we publish the TOC in the back of the print magazine & tuck it away online, as well. we believe in celebrating accomplishments, but if you're looking for bio blurbs, you won't find them here.
while we don't have a traditional submission/reading cycle, our list of desired contributors is never static. we’re always open to reading your work. please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you feel that your work would be a good fit!
The bedfellows team is currently reading for our anthology issue, Little Black Book, set to publish at the end of the year. If you are a previously published author of ours and are submitting to this special issue (issue ten), we are eager to read your new work!
If you are sending an unsolicited submission, please note that we are not reading new submissions at this time. Fel free to get in touch, anyway! We would be happy to file your submission for issue eleven consideration; we understand if you would like to withdraw at any point due to our biannual schedule.
bedfellows is primarily solicitation-based. we prefer to find & get to know writers in a community-focused way-- at readings, in other literary magazines, word-of-mouth, social media, etc.-- instead of waiting for them to come to us. we feel that representation of a wide range of perspectives & identities can only happen if editors are proactive in their efforts to amplify the work of women, queer & trans* folks, POC, & other marginalized voices.
twice a year, the editors compile a list of writers whom we want to feature & solicit them prior to putting together an issue. this may be the opposite of reading blind, but it doesn’t mean that we solicit based on where writers have been published, which awards they’ve won, or how many followers they have on whatever platform. we want readers to experience bedfellows with equal interest in each piece & each writer, so we publish the TOC in the back of the print magazine & tuck it away online, as well. we believe in celebrating accomplishments, but if you're looking for bio blurbs, you won't find them here.
while we don't have a traditional submission/reading cycle, our list of desired contributors is never static. we’re always open to reading your work. please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you feel that your work would be a good fit!
CONTACT US
the editors can be reached at bedfellowsmagazine@gmail.com.
to submit unsolicited work, email us an introductory note, along with any work that you feel fits the spirit of this project. we respect your time & care in this process & hope you will respect ours, too; please only send topically/thematically relevant work, or your submission won't receive a response.
include as few or as many pieces as you'd like (at your discretion!) in your submission, with each not exceeding two pages. please send all work for consideration in one docx, doc, or rtf file. if your work is chosen for publication, we'll also ask for a visual rendering of your bed for the website.
regrettably, we're not able to pay bedfellows contributors at this time. all contributing writers receive a contributor copy of the print issue, & are invited to perform at the issue's launch party in philadelphia.
to submit unsolicited work, email us an introductory note, along with any work that you feel fits the spirit of this project. we respect your time & care in this process & hope you will respect ours, too; please only send topically/thematically relevant work, or your submission won't receive a response.
include as few or as many pieces as you'd like (at your discretion!) in your submission, with each not exceeding two pages. please send all work for consideration in one docx, doc, or rtf file. if your work is chosen for publication, we'll also ask for a visual rendering of your bed for the website.
regrettably, we're not able to pay bedfellows contributors at this time. all contributing writers receive a contributor copy of the print issue, & are invited to perform at the issue's launch party in philadelphia.