General Information
Submissions for the Fall 2023 Issue of The Account are currently open and will close on Aug 13th 2023, or when our submission cap has been met. If you do not see a submission box, that means our submission cap has been met.
Please review our submission guidelines for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on Submittable. We do read simultaneous submissions; however, if you withdraw a submission (or part of a submission) we ask that you do this through Submittable and not through our editorial email address.
We welcome work by BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ writers. We are open to a diverse range of styles, including experimental and hybrid work. The best way to decide if The Account is a good fit for your work is by reading an issue of the journal. All issues can be read for free on our website.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but you must withdraw your work immediately if it is no longer available. Authors retain their copyright and will receive a contract upon acceptance.
We require that you send us not only your creative work, but also an account of that work.
**Our staff works on a volunteer basis, and we are currently not a paying market.
account = history, sketch, marker, repository of influences
The account is an opportunity for the artist to lift the curtain and say something that might not be present on the page. We are interested in exploring the relationship between what is known (the work on the page) and what is often left unknown (the artist’s intentions behind that work). By pairing each piece of art with an account, readers of the journal will also get to experience the piece in two different ways simultaneously, with two different levels of intimacy.
What you reveal is up to you. An account can be personal or formal—it is entirely up to the artist. We ask that if you choose to be satirical, you do so in service of your work. We are most interested in how you would track the choices, influences, and thought that make up your aesthetic as it pertains to the work in question, or to your larger body of work. In other words, what went into making this work? What was on your mind? What brought you to the page or into the studio to create this piece?
We will not consider work submitted without an account, although an account may be changed or rewritten after a piece has been accepted.
Criticism operates on a solicitation-only basis.
Art currently operates on a solicitation-only basis. However, if you are interested in sending us a work sample, CV, and query letter, you are welcome to via the address below.
General info: poetryprosethought — at gmail — dot — com