SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions are currently CLOSED and will thusly be ignored.

EXPEDITED RESPONSES:

Responses are usually sent out within 15 days of submission.

For a 48-hour response time, send $10 to @vabnt on Venmo with the subject line "read me."

FOR BOOKS:

- Send us your book. No genre or formatting requirements here either; if we have trouble reading it, we'll let you know. We mostly publish poetry collections, but "mostly" doesn't mean anything.

- 15ish-80ish pages, please.

- Send submissions to bslitmag@gmail.com with a subject line including the word "BOOK."

- In your email, please include: a brief third-person bio, your social media links, and your pronouns.

- A cover letter isn't necessary, though it's always nice to get a sense of whom we're talking to.

FOR ONLINE FEATURES:

- Send us up to six pieces of your finest bullshit. This can be poetry, prose, visual art, fiction, a game, whatever.

- No formatting requirements. Follow your heart.

- No length minimum/maximum.

- We're cool with simultaneous subs—just let us know ASAP if someone else snags your piece.

- No previously published work*, please.

- Send submissions to bslitmag@gmail.com with a subject line including the words "ONLINE FEATURES."

- In your email, please include: a brief third-person bio, your social media links, and your pronouns.

*Like, by an active magazine—personal blogs + defunct mags are OK.

FOR HORNS:

SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 4 WILL OPEN IN 2024

Contributors receive a print copy of the issue.

- Send us up to three pieces of your finest, sexy/smutty/NSFW shit. This can be poetry, prose, visual art, fiction, whatever.

- No formatting requirements. Follow your heart.

- Max of 7 pages/piece, please, though we're loosy-goosy on this rule.

- We're cool with simultaneous subs—just let us know ASAP if someone else snags your piece.

- No previously published work, please.

- Send submissions to bslitmag@gmail.com with a subject line including the word "HORNS."

- In your email, please include: a brief third-person bio, your social media links, and your pronouns.

FOR ANTHOLOGIES:

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE THIRD ANTHO WILL OPEN IN 2024

- Send us up to three pieces of your finest bullshit. This can be poetry, prose, visual art, fiction, puzzles, whatever.

- Max of 7 pages/piece, please, though we're loosy-goosy on this rule.

- No formatting requirements. Follow your heart.

- We're cool with simultaneous subs—just let us know ASAP if someone else snags your piece.

- No previously published work*, please.

- Send submissions to bslitmag@gmail.com with a subject line including the word "ANTHOLOGY."

- In your email, please include: a brief third-person bio, your social media links, and your pronouns.

*Like, by an active magazine—personal blogs + defunct mags are OK.

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FOR NON-BOOK SUBMISSIONS:

If selected for publication, BULLSHIT reserves First Serial Rights & First Electronic Rights. Upon publication, copyright reverts to you, the author of the work. If your work is published elsewhere following publication in BULLSHIT, whether print or online, we ask that BULLSHIT be credited as the original publisher.