Salt Hill is a US-based biannual literary journal publishing outstanding new fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and art by people at various stages in their literary and artistic careers. We publish new and emerging writers alongside those with long, illustrious careers in the literary arts.

We are interested in work that represents a broad spectrum of experience. We believe it is critical to lift up the voices of writers and artists who have been traditionally underrepresented in the literary arts. As such, we feel an urgency to read and consider work by people of color, women, queer people, non-binary folks, and anyone else who has been marginalized by the institutions which have, for so long, dominated the publishing scene.

Salt Hill is produced by writers in and affiliated with the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University and is funded in part by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Graduate Student Organization of Syracuse University.

reading periods

We have two submission periods for fiction and poetry:

• December through January

• July through August

We accept nonfiction and art submissions year-round.

general guidelines

Salt Hill accepts only online submissions via Submittable for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. For visual art submissions, see below. Most, if not all, of our published work is selected from unsolicited submissions.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but ask that you alert us as soon as possible if your work is placed elsewhere by either adding a note to your submission through Submittable or withdrawing the full submission.

We ask that you submit only once per genre per reading period.

Due to the volume of submissions, we can’t respond individually to submission status queries. We aim to respond to submissions within three to six months.

Unfortunately, we are not in the position to offer payment to our writers.

Curious about what we like? Grab one of our issues, or take a dip through our online archive.

genre-specific guidelines

Poetry: 

Please submit no more than five poems at a time, in one document.

We are interested in a wide range of poetry, from traditional to experimental. Please send no more than five poems at a time. We only print previously unpublished work. We ask that all poems be submitted in one document. 

We allow simultaneous submissions, but please notify us if a poem is no longer available by adding a note to your submission through Submittable.