Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.

We accept submissions between January and June annually, only. Submissions can be mailed via USPS or e-mailed.

All manuscripts mailed USPS should be submitted with SASE and should be mailed to:

Electronic submissions should be sent to the appropriate electronic mailing address listed below. Manuscript Submission: (genre) should appear in the subject line of the e-mail. Submissions should be sent as .doc or .docx file attachments and should not be sent in the body of the e-mail.

fictioneditor@midwayjournal.com

poetryeditor@midwayjournal.com

assistantpoetryeditor@midwayjournal.com

nonfictioneditor@midwayjournal.com

All manuscripts should be double-spaced and single-sided (poetry may be single spaced or double spaced). Although we do publish art, we make no formal call for art. If you think you have something we would like (we like work to be literary in some manner, even if obscurely- see art), e-mail the work to editors@midwayjournal.com, mail it via USPS, or send us a link to your Web site and let us know what work you want us to review.

All electronic multi-genre or ephemera submissions can be made to editors@midwayjournal.com.

Since we publish electronically and do not incur traditional publication limitations, there are no page limits or word counts set for individual submissions.

We do ask, however, that you please send no more than 3-5 poems (see what we like in Midway Poetry), or 1 piece of fiction (see Midway Fiction), or 2 pieces of flash, or sudden, fiction, or 1 piece of creative non-fiction (see Midway Non-fiction), mixed genre (see Midway Mixed Genre), or drama (see Midway Drama). Individuals may, however, submit in more than one genre simultaneously.

Don’t bother with priority mail—it won’t get to us any faster, it’s expensive, and it clogs our mailbox. Regular mail works just fine.

Photocopies and computer printed copies are acceptable. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Generally, we don't read previously published material. Here are the exceptions:
1) We read previously produced drama.
2) We make a rare exception for previously published fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that has been out of print for awhile. Please check with the genre editor before sending.

We will consider previously published work also if all rights are still retained by the author.

We do not accept manuscripts postmarked between June 1 and December 1. All manuscripts received during this time will be returned unread.

If you have not heard back from Midway after six months' time, please feel free to contact us regarding the status of your work. Work submitted without a SASE will be recycled.

We select the entire subsequent year's publishing material from each submissions period. The publication schedule is devised between the close of the submissions period and the beginning of the new publication year beginning in October. All inquiries about publication schedules should be made at that time to editors@midwayjournal.com if contributing authors have not heard back from us before the new publication year begins.