Essay’s 2025 edition is open for submissions from now until November 4th at 11:59 PM!
Send us your memoirs, your personal essays, your literary journalism, your lyric essays, your graphic memoirs, your flash nonfiction, your video essays, your hybrid works. If it’s nonfiction, we want it! We also encourage visual art submissions of all kinds, including photography.
Works chosen for publication will appear in the 2025 edition of Essay. These works will be sent to this year’s Cunningham essayist for the chance to win the Kirkland Memorial Prize.
Please send all submissions as attachments to essaymagazine@susqu.edu. Submissions must be paginated and in 12-pt. Times New Roman font. Please limit submissions to 8,000 words. Excerpts from longer works are welcome, provided that authors excerpt the work before submitting. Please include a cover page with submission title, author’s name, graduation year, and email address.
For photography and visual artwork, please send submissions as JPEG attachments in the highest quality possible.
Essay is also accepting reading board applications until November 4th.
Contact essaymagazine@susqu.edu with any questions!