Submissions for Pergola open once a year from September 1st to October 31 1st. 

Submissions for the janet jai Visual Poetry contest open once a year from February 25th to May 15th. 

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Currently, we only accept submissions in English. We are a small staff taking our time with your work. Please wait at least 4 weeks before contacting us about the status of your submission.​

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We request first serial rights, after which all rights will revert back to the author or artist. Pergola accepts previously uncurated work that has not appeared in a literary magazine, journal, or anthology.

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AI-generated or assisted work is strictly prohibited; Pergola reserves the right to remove published work from our issues at any time if it is revealed to have involved any generative AI in the artistic process.

 

We are eager to publish work from demographics that remain underrepresented in the artistic and publishing communities and encourage submissions from all marginalized and de-centered creators, including but never limited to Black artists and other artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, and disabled artists.