Granules Mouthful of Salt Gold Star Program Gold Star

Writers who choose the $25 paid feedback tier will receive a longer, more detailed editorial response delivered within 7 days, and will include heavier line editing and revision suggestions.

For your submission, please send your work as a .doc, .docx, or PDF attachment. Format prose as double-spaced and poetry as single-spaced, using a standard 12-point font.

Include the title on the first page along with page numbers; for poetry, please include the poem title on each page, but remove all identifying information for blind review. Please submit only once per period.

Like our Feedback Tier, this option does not guarantee publication and is considered equally alongside non-feedback submissions.

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Writers who choose the $15 paid feedback tier will receive 250–300 words of personalized editorial notes and light line editing.

For your submission, please send your work as a .doc, .docx, or PDF attachment. Format prose as double-spaced and poetry as single-spaced, using a standard 12-point font.

Include the title on the first page along with page numbers; for poetry, please include the poem title on each page, but remove all identifying information for blind review. Please submit only once per period.

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Granules is our rolling submissions feature, publishing work throughout the year outside of our themed issues. We welcome poems, prose, visual art, and hybrid forms that are exploratory, urgent, and alive to language. Surprise us. Send work that lingers in uncertainty, takes risks, asks difficult questions, or discovers something new in the act of making. We're interested in pieces that feel necessary, attentive, and formally engaged—work that extends the conversations at the heart of Mouthful of Salt while charting its own course.

Send your work as a .docx or PDF file attachment and please only submit ONCE per submission period.

Double-spaced for prose; poetry may be single-spaced with appropriate formatting.

Use a legible, standard font (Times New Roman, Georgia, Garamond) at 12-point size.

Please include the title at the top of the first page (no name in the body of the submission for blind review), and include page numbers on all prose submissions.

Poetry (up to 5 poems, max 10 pages total)

Short Fiction (1 story, up to 2,500 words)

Creative Nonfiction (1 piece, up to 2,500 words)

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