SUBMIT

Please submit prose and poetry through our SUBMISSIONS MANAGER. We cannot, under any condition, accept email submissions.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately. In fiction and nonfiction, where you will need to withdraw an entire submission, please do so through the submissions manager. If you must only withdraw part of your submission (as in one poem from a packet), please notify us through e-mail.

Please limit your submissions to two per calendar year. We do not accept previously published material, and we take First North American serial rights. Rights revert to the author upon publication, and we ask that we be acknowledged (as Devil's Lake) in future reprintings of the work. Please wait at least five months to query about a submission in progress.

POETRY

Submit between three and five poems. Please use standard font and formatting (single-spaced, unless it's a stylistic choice). Please include your entire submission in one file, and be sure your name and contact information are included on each page.

All work must be uploaded through our submissions manager. We cannot, under any condition, consider e-mail submissions. Please submit all work in a Microsoft Word file (.doc) or a Rich Text file (.rtf) - please note we cannot accept .docx files. Send only one submission at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.

PROSE

Due to a recent influx in prose submissions, we will be closing our submission period for prose only from May 1 to August 1. Please check back in August to submit your work.

We are interested in both fiction and nonfiction. All prose should be double-spaced, in standard formatting and font. In the interest of publishing work best suited to an online format, we will only consider pieces that are no longer than 4,500 words. If your submission is longer than 4,500 words, we will decline it unread. In this vein, we are also very interested in flash fiction, short shorts, collaborative pieces, and work that would not be possible on the printed page.

Please include your entire submission in one file, and be sure your name and contact information are included on each page. All work must be uploaded through our submissions manager. We cannot, under any condition, consider e-mail submissions. Please submit all work in a Microsoft Word file (.doc) or a Rich Text file (.rtf). Please note we cannot accept .docx files. Send one submission at a time, and wait for a response before you submit additional work.

GRAPHIC FICTION

Please submit in either .PDF, .TIFF, or .JPG formats. We generally look for submissions of comics between one and fifteen pages in length, with a maximum file size of 20 MB.

QUESTIONS

To contact the Devil's Lake staff, email one of our editors at devilslake.editor@gmail.com.

PROCEED TO SUBMISSIONS MANAGER.