MudRoom is a triannual journal of poetry and prose. Our mission is to provide every writer, emerging and established, the opportunity to both see their work published and engage with a larger literary community. We are committed to publishing underrepresented voices, especially BIPOC, Queer, Trans, women, and disabled writers.

In other words, we ourselves are queer and see queerness as expansive, compelling, and experimental. We don’t want to read a professor/student story unless it’s good, and we do want to read a sports poem, especially if it’s gay. We prioritize craft on the line over most else. Your work doesn’t need to be perfect, but it should be surprising, exciting, and constructed with care.

MudRoom is open for submissions through November 25! Read our submission guidelines below.

General Guidelines

All issue contributors are paid 15 dollars! Submissions are free, and we try to respond to everyone within each reading period. If you don’t hear from us, feel free to query after three months.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through email. We will not consider work with sexist, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or ableist content. Your name should appear on your cover letter but not in the submission. Please only submit once per submission period.

All contributors are paid through Paypal. Please alert us in your submission if you require another method of payment.

POETRY GUIDELINES

MudRoom publishes poetry of all types. You can email poetry submissions to mud.room.submissions@gmail.com.

To submit, please send 3-5 original, previously unpublished poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX .ODT or PDF file with one poem per page (eight pages maximum).

Indicate POETRY SUBMISSION in your subject line. Submissions without "Poetry Submission" in the subject line will be deleted. You may also include a brief cover letter/third-person bio in the body of your email.

Rights

We require First North American Serial Rights. Following publication, all rights revert to the author, but we ask that MudRoom is credited in subsequent reprints.  In addition, we reserve the right to edit submissions in accordance with the rules of our style guide.