Inkhorn Review: Prose Gold Star Program Gold Star Free Tip Jar Option

We're after prose that knows what it's doing — precision, a voice that sounds like a person rather than a genre, and endings that earn themselves. We're slower to take work that explains its own feeling or arrives already sure of what the reader should conclude.

One story, up to 1,000 words. You may submit longer pieces as a paid submission.

If you write very short, you may send up to three flash pieces (300 words each) in a single document.

Send one prose submission at a time and wait for a response before sending another. You may have one open submission across all genres. If you anticipate becoming a regular submitter, our Patreon program offers perks that may interest you.

Yes. We assume you're submitting elsewhere. Withdraw here as soon as a piece is placed.

We don't accept it.

A personal blog, newsletter, or public social media post counts as published. Workshop and private-group sharing does not.

We publish human writing.

Please don't send work generated by AI, in whole or in part. We're not talking about your spell-checker. The line we care about is the one the Authors Guild draws in its AI Best Practices for Authors: the words and the thinking should be yours.

We aim to respond within 30 days. If it's been longer than 60 days, please query.

Inkhorn Review pays $40 per accepted prose piece over 1,000 words or $25 per accepted prose piece under 1,000 words, sent on publication day. Payment upon initial publication covers all uses.

Submissions are free. Tips are welcome and go toward the contributor fund, but they have no bearing on how work is read or selected.

We acquire first serial rights and the right to include accepted work in our annual print edition and other anthologies drawn from our archives. All other rights revert to the author on publication.

Accepted work appears in the next available space and remains in our online archive. Once a year, we assemble a printed annual from the online issues; inclusion in the annual is an editorial selection and separate from publication online.

Full rights language is available at inkhornreview.com/submissions.