The Drop Petrichor Art & Literary Gold Star Program Gold Star

The Drop digital art & literary journal is open for submissions and will be reading for our inaugural October 2026 issue.

The Drop is published four times a year and includes short form fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We are also very open to genre/form blends and mixed media.

Please check specifics for each submission type. For mixed media, mashups or blends, choose best fit.

For all types of submissions, we only accept submissions via Duosuma. Please upload your documents as PDF or DOCX and your images as PNG or JPG, ensuring each file is under 10MB.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable and encouraged—but please let us know right away if your work is picked up elsewhere.

Upon publication, all rights revert back to the author. We will, however, house your work in our digital and/or audio archives for the lifespan of the journal. If you re-publish your work, we ask that you note its initial publication with us.

If you have to withdraw your work for any reason, please notify us through Duosuma. Please leave a short message on your submission using “The Drop Withdrawal” as your subject line so we can find your note easily.

We strive to respond to submissions within four months or less.

We are not a paying publication at this time.

Submissions we will not consider:

• We do not endorse the use of AI at any phase of the creative process (nor do we use it at any stage in the editorial or publishing process). For contributors, this includes, but is not limited to: brainstorming, pre-writing, conceptualizing, content creation, editing, or formatting. If you use AI for your creative work, please submit elsewhere.
• Unsolicited previously published material—this includes materials included in books, periodicals, websites, social media, or other publicly accessible online venues.
• Unsolicited revisions of work we have previously declined.

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