Submission Guidelines
Pergola will accept submissions for our inaugural Spring 2026 issue from July 1st to November 30th, 2025. Currently, we only accept submissions in English. We are a small staff taking our time with your work and ask you to wait at least 6 weeks before contacting us about your submission.
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. Please include a brief bio and cover letter with your submission.
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 decentered creators, including but never limited to Black artists and other artists of color, LGBTQ+ artists, and disabled artists.
What we're looking for: well-executed work that demonstrates your commitment to your craft. Pergola is equally interested in traditional forms and contemporary experimentations. Please only submit to one category at a time in a single document.
Poetry:
Submit up to three poems, with each poem starting on its own page, and no more than eight pages of poetry.
Prose:
Submit up to 1,000 words for flash fiction, and 4,000 words for short stories and creative non-fiction.
Visual Art and Graphic Poetry:
Submit up to two visual pieces as a .png or .jpeg; we will contact you if we need the image(s) in a higher resolution.
Submit up to two visual poems as a .pdf. Include the text in your piece below it in 9 pt Times New Roman font.
