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POETRY SUBMISSIONS

Radix Magazine is accepting poetry submissions for our Fall 2026 issue.

We seek well-crafted poems that carry honesty and emotional depth—work that connects people through shared truths. Send poems that attend to the world’s textures: its sorrow, its ordinary moments, and its flashes of wonder. Experiment with form, but ground it in genuine feeling. We’re especially drawn to poetry that holds hope within hardship, balancing light and darkness.

• We accept only electronic submissions. Submit up to 3 poems at a time, in separate documents, in a standard word-processing format, 50 lines max per poem.
• Please include a short bio (five lines, max) that includes name and email with the poems. We accept simultaneous submissions. However, we request that you send a quick email if another publication accepts your work. Additionally, upon acceptance in Radix Magazine, please withdraw your pieces from other considerations.
• We will consider previously published material so long as you sustain rights to the work. Please state where and when the poem was previously published so we can credit them.
• We regret that we cannot provide payment for poems at this time.

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Annie Dillard said that “fiction writers are . . . thoughtful interpreters of the world.” To that end, Radix is seeking writers who wrestle with luminosity and darkness, tending neither towards sugar-coated Christianese nor gratuitous depictions of despair, but rather creating stories that, in Makoto Fujimura’s words, “help to mediate divided realities and bring the wholeness of the gospel message.”

• We love stories that bring excellence to the craft of fiction writing, which may include humor, wit, well-rendered scenes, believable characters, and engaging plots.
• Characters should not draw on stereotypes or tropes but should be rendered with the full range of human complexity and diversity.
• Plots should have tension throughout, and endings do not need to wrap up everything with a tidy bow.
• Word count – We are looking for stories between 1000 – 3500 words.
• Formatting – Please double space your work, add page numbers, and use 12-point font in Times New Roman.
• We do not publish previously published stories.
• Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but please let us know if your piece has been published elsewhere.
• We accept only electronic submissions. Submit in a single document, in a standard word-processing format (.doc or .docx).
• Please include a brief bio that includes your name and email.
• We regret that we cannot provide payment for fiction at this time.
• Please use our submit button below. (Note: We charge a $3 fee for submissions to cover the cost of our submissions platform, which allows us to more efficiently and personally communicate with our writers).

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