Please read our guidelines carefully. Consider looking at our past issues to gain a sense of our publication before submitting your work.

Submissions

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Timeline

We are currently reading submissions for Volume VII: PEOPLE, to be published in late February 2026.

Submissions are free and open to all. Contributors selected for publication will receive a complimentary copy of the issue.

How to Submit

  • Platform: Submit via Submittable

  • Prose: Submit 1 piece, up to a single work of no more than 2,000 words. 

  • Poetry & Art: Submit up to 3 pieces. 

  • Include a third-person bio

File Specs

  • File type: .doc or .docx only 

  • Format: single-spaced, 12pt, standard readable typeface (Times New Roman, Georgia, etc.) 

Simultaneous submissions are welcome—just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.

By submitting, you consent to publication online and in print. You retain all rights to your work—Quibble only wishes to share your writing, not own or profit from it.

This volume’s theme is PEOPLE—a word stretching across countless stories, identities, communities, contradictions, and constellations of connection. We invite you to explore it broadly or intimately: portraits, crowds, strangers, ancestors, avatars, alter-egos, lovers, enemies, neighbors, selves.

Theme: PEOPLE

Compensation

Right now, we can only afford to offer a print copy of the issue to each contributor. This is our way of honoring your work while we continue to build capacity.

As always, we’ll champion the heck out of your art as loudly as we can.

As a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), Quibble utilizes Submittable, an online submission management platform that is trusted by more than two million users and 11,000+ organizations, including Random House, Simon and Schuster, Harlequin, New Yorker, CBS, NBC, Harvard, MIT, LA Times, TechCrunch, NPR, and 300+ universities.