We hope that when you read Epiphany, you'll get a sense of the great variety of stories, poems, essays, and genre-bending work that we like, and the themes to which we keep returning. We hope that you'll enjoy and connect with the work of your fellow writers, and that you'll feel you're a valued part of our community, rather than another writer sending beloved work into the unsympathetic void. We hope you'll see what makes us different.
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Submissions for our Fall/Winter print issue are open May 1–June 15.
Submissions for our Spring/Summer print issue are open Nov 1–Dec 15.
Applications for our Fresh Voices Fellowship are open Sep 15–Nov 1.
Submissions to our Breakout Prize are open March 1–April 15.
In print, we pay $75 per poem and $175 per essay or story. Online, we pay $50 per poem and $150 per essay or story. Art payments are made on a sliding scale. Those facing financial hardship may request a fee waver via the contact form on our website. (In order to keep the contest sustainable for our editors, readers, and organization, there is a limit of 50 fee waivers available for the Breakout Prize.)
In order to keep the contest sustainable for our organization and our community, we are capping paid submissions at 300 per genre, and are offering 50 fee waiver applications to writers facing financial hardship. Our fee waiver cap of 50 has been reached. Please refrain from submitting fee waiver requests for this opportunity.
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Before submitting to Epiphany, familiarize yourself with recent work we have published by checking out our website, buying a digital subscription, which provides full access to our current issues and 20+ year archives, or by subscribing to our print magazine.
General art submissions are open year round.
Please submit your artwork or photography to be considered for an Epiphany interior art or issue cover for the print magazine. Submit up to five images at a time. Artwork need not be unpublished, though if it is, please mention in what publications, galleries, websites, or books it has appeared in, excluding social media and your personal website.
All images will be printed in full color and may be reproduced on the magazine's website, social media, or promotional materials. The cover may include our magazine’s logo and other text or images in overprint. All intellectual property rights to the artwork remain with the artist.
If your artwork is selected for publication, you will need to provide a high-resolution scan of the piece(s) (300 dpi), at the inch dimensions of our issue, for print-quality reproduction.
In the cover letter, feel free to provide any information about your artwork that we should know. Low-res images are acceptable for submissions, as long as high-res images can be provided when necessary. Please do not send blurry or pixelated images. Compensation offered for licensing this art is on a sliding slide starting at $75 for interior art and $300 for cover art, and a copy of the journal. Any work that uses AI in its creation must be identified as such.
Everyone who submits will receive 40% off the first year of a digital subscription to Epiphany. The code to access this subscription will be found in the receipt email for each submission.
We typically respond to submissions within five to six months, and aim for much faster. Please be patient: we give thoughtful and thorough consideration to each submission. If it doesn't fit for the current issue, we may keep it for consideration for the next issue. We look forward to receiving your work!