LIT accepts electronic submissions. We appreciate your following all submission guidelines and respecting our reading periods.
Submission Guidelines:
- Poetry submissions should be 5 poems or 10 pages max. All submissions should be uploaded in a single document, beginning with your cover letter (including bio). Each page of the submission should have your name on it.
- Prose submissions should be no longer than 25 pages, double-spaced, beginning with your cover letter (including bio).
- Please wait for a reply from LIT before submitting again.
- Our reading periods are from September to mid-December, then January to May. Please do not submit more than twice in either period.
- Our reading periods are from September to mid-December, then January to May. Do not submit more than twice in either period.
- We do not consider submissions filed by professional coordinating services.
Masthead:
- Jeff T. Johnson and Christian Ochoa, Editors-in-Chief
- Jaclyn Lovell, Poetry Editor
- Nora Boydston, Prose Editor
- Mark Bibbins, Shanna Compton, Justin Marks, and Kathleen Ossip, Nicole Steinberg, Peter Bogart Johnson, Jackie Clark, Benjamin Kendrick, Ben Mirov, Mia Eaton, Editors at Large
- David Lehman, Robert Polito, and Jackson Taylor, Faculty Advisors
- Brian McMullen, Design Consultant
The New School
Writing Program, Room 514
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011