Submit Your Work
\\ OPEN CALL: We are accepting work for our inaugural issue from July 1st to September 30th. Send us your work! //
INDIGO is a newly established, independent literary journal. We are looking for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and other text-focused experiences. Experimental, hybrid, cross-genre and medium-bending submissions are greatly encouraged.
We're looking for projects that occupy in-between spaces, hovering in the moments 'before.' Show us the jagged pink edge of twilight just before moon rise, when the sky goes from blue to indigo-black. Take us off the beaten trail. We want to see things through new eyes, hear things through new ears. Make us think. Make us feel. Now is your moment; show us a new world.
Some Suggestions
We encourage the submitter to review these guidelines. We also encourage you to ignore them, if you feel your work is good enough to get away with it.
- There’s no word limit for fiction or creative non-fiction, but generally we find pieces below 3k land well with readers.
- Anchor your cnf essays in your own experiences. We want personal narratives with a fierce, tangible relationship to their subjects.
- Fiction submissions should lean into the surreal, the uncanny, the absurd, and the deeply introspective. Pieces with a strong sense of place have the best chance of selection.
- Submit up to 3 poems. We love stark imagery and tactile, emotional experiences on the edge of the unsaid.
- Color outside the lines. If your work fits a quiet, twilight environment, we want to see it, no matter how weird it gets.
How to Submit
Please use the form below for all submissions.
We do not charge for submissions.
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. Please notify us as soon as possible if your work has been accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published material for consideration.
Submitting your work denotes your understanding that, upon acceptance, INDIGO acquires First North American Serial Rights and non-exclusive electronic archival rights to host your piece on our site. All rights immediately revert back to the author upon publication.