Ploughshares Call for Submissions: Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction
Ploughshares welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during our regular reading period, open now through January 15, 2025. To submit to the journal, including the Fall Longform Issue, please review our guidelines.
Submissions are free if you submit by mail and $3.75 if you submit online (preferred). Subscribe to Ploughshares and submit online for free.
Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year: blended poetry and prose issues in the Winter and Spring, a prose issue in the Summer, and a special longform prose issue in the Fall.