Conjunctions See other projects related to this listing. About For more than four decades, Conjunctions has established itself as the preeminent home for writers from around the world who challenge convention with work that is formally innovative, culturally transformative, and ahead of its time. We embrace taking risks and pride ourselves on publishing established masters while debuting unknown writers.Just a few whose work we published first or early in their careers are Nigerian-born Booker Prize winner Ben Okri, Nobel Prize-shortlisted Chinese surrealist Can Xue, Pulitzer Prize winners Richard Powers, Forrest Gander, and Rae Armantrout, National Book Award winners Arthur Sze and William T. Vollmann, MacArthur Fellows David Foster Wallace, Peter Cole, and Karen Russell, Rome Prize winner Mary Caponegro, as well as Isabella Hamad, Vanessa Chan, Brandon Hobson, Shelley Jackson, Colin Channer, and many others.Among the contemporary masters featured in our issues are National Humanities Medal recipient Joyce Carol Oates, PEN/Nabokov Award winner Sandra Cisneros, 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner Jayne Anne Phillips (whose winning novel Nightwatch was first featured in Conjunctions), 2018 National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez, some eleven Nobel Prize winners including Gabriel García Márquez, Yasunari Kawabata, Octavio Paz, and Claude Simon, as well as renowned authors Margaret Atwood, Julia Alvarez, William H. Gass, John Ashbery, and others whose achievement has been to push world literature in fresh directions. Interviews with Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe, William S. Burroughs—the list is long—have been perennial favorites among our readers, as has our editorial embrace of speculative and horror writing by award-winning writers like Kelly Link, Brian Evenson, Carmen Maria Machado, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Straub, Elizabeth Hand, and China Miéville.The biannual anthology of new writing appears every spring and fall in print and generally collects pieces that form a conversation around a central theme—new-wave fabulism, Caribbean writing, sanctuary, desire, climate change, and so on. Because these volumes are book-length, we’re able to publish long-form work, which other journals often cannot accommodate.The free weekly online journal showcases the work of a single writer each week. It gives us a place to publish the exceptional work that doesn’t fit into the theme of a given anthology. Our website also features a multimedia vault of recorded readings, unavailable elsewhere; as well as full-text selections from the anthologies. Fees Notice: This project charges fees (or requires purchases) for some submissions. They charge fees, except for financial hardship. The fee is USD $4 (average for magazines that charge). Important: Postal submissions are accepted year-round. Country of Publication & Year Established United States Established in 1981 Publication Media & Frequency Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationPublished 52 x per yearPrint Publication Print PublicationPublished 2 x per year AI Policy Unknown AI policy Statistics Synopsis Regular Speed Conjunctions's overall average response time is within a normal range for magazines. More ChallengingConjunctions's overall acceptance rate is lower than most magazines. ResponsiveConjunctions's overall rate of non-response is within a normal range for magazines. Collapse section Fiction Temp Closed Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Genres: GeneralLengths: Flash Fiction: No specific word count limits known (our definition: up to 1000 words). Short Story: No specific word count limits known (our definition: 1000 to 7500 words). Novelette: No specific word count limits known (our definition: 7500 to 15000 words).Styles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.Topics: Open to all/most Topics including... Other: May vary.Payment:No monetary payment to Unknown payment Pays occasionally, unknown rates.Submissions:Methods: Submittable submission manager (fees apply). Postal. Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.Media: Text. Collapse section Nonfiction Temp Closed Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Lengths: Narrative Nonfiction: No specific word count limits known.Styles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary. Excluding: Academic.Topics: Open to all/most Topics including... Other: May vary.Payment:No monetary payment to Unknown payment Pays occasionally, unknown rates.Submissions:Methods: Submittable submission manager (fees apply). Postal. Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.Media: Text. Collapse section Poetry Temp Closed Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Genres: GeneralLengths: Poem: No line limits known; Up to 6 pieces.Poetry Forms:Open to all/most Forms.Styles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.Topics: Open to all/most Topics including... Other: May vary.Payment:No monetary payment to Unknown payment Pays occasionally, unknown rates.Submissions:Methods: Submittable submission manager (fees apply). Postal. Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.Media: Text. Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary. Go to publication's website Report: Submission/Response Correction/Update New Cover ArtSocial:Bluesky @conjunctions.bsky.socialFacebook FacebookInstagram @_conjunctions Support this Publisher: Make a Donation Purchase Issue(s) For the Editor(s): Request Interview Duosuma Submission Manager Link to Duotrope Conjunctions Submission Statistics The statistics in this section are compiled from submission reports sent to us through our submission tracker. They are not provided by the publication's editors/staff or by Duotrope's admins. Information in this section is updated a few times per day. Learn more about the statistics. Filter: Category: All Categories Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Group by submission Include outliers Include related projects Accuracy We have received 335 reports from 284 different members within the past 12 months, not including pending responses (see below). The more responses reported, the more accurate the information. Days Reported 0 min | 68.4 mean avg | 61.0 median | 269 max days (56.5 std dev) Responses 91.64 % Acceptances: 2.09 % of submissions accepted (63.4 avg. days per acceptance) | 2.11 % of submitters accepted Rejections are often underreported, which skews the statistics in favor of acceptances. Most publishers have a lower acceptance rate than indicated here. Rejections: 89.55 % (66.0 avg. days per rejection) | 15.3 % personal, 67.7 % form, 17.0 % unspecified | 0.3 % shortlisted Non-Responses 1.79 % Lost/Returned: 0.30 % (158.0 avg. days before reporting submissions as lost or returned) Never Responded: 1.49 % (224.5 avg. days before reporting submissions as never responded) Withdrawals 6.57 % (49.1 avg. days per withdrawal) Pending 113 responses are pending (72 min | 85.0 mean avg | 84.0 median | 102 max days waiting | 469.3 std dev) from 111 different members This only includes pending reports from people who have been active on Duotrope within the past 30 days Other Information The most common submission fee paid: USD $4.00. (60.3 % of reports specified whether they paid a fee; of those, 99.6 % paid fees.) Most submissions are acknowledged on the same day. Most recent response reported was received on 14 Sep 2026. Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 20 Aug 2026. 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