Barzakh is currently closed for submissions.

Genre-specific Guidelines:

• Fiction – Please upload one text file (DOCX, PDF, RTF, etc.) including up to 6000 words total (one long piece or multiple shorter pieces).

• Nonfiction (narrative nonfiction/ essay/ book review/ criticism) – Please upload one text file (DOCX, PDF, RTF, etc.) including up to 6000 words total (one long piece or multiple shorter pieces).

• Poetry – Please upload one text file (DOCX, PDF, RTF, etc.) including up to six poems.

• Multigenre/ Hybrid/ Digital Work – If the submission is text-based, please upload one text file (DOCX, PDF, RTF, etc.) including as many as six hybrid pieces. If the submission is image-based, please upload as many as six image files (IMG, PNG, TIF, etc.). If you'd like these pieces to be considered for our visual-art section, please include an image list that includes the title, size, medium, and year of each piece you submit.

• Visual Art – Please upload as many as six image files (IMG, PNG, TIF, etc.). Please include an image list that includes the title, size, medium/ materials, and year of each piece you submit.

Other Guidelines:

We have a limited amount of non-tip-jar submissions available to us, so please only submit one non-tip-jar submission per reading period.

Simultaneous submissions are welcome and encouraged, but please let us know immediately if your piece is accepted elsewhere. Be sure to include a brief third-person biography, in a language of your choice, with your cover letter so that we may properly credit your work should it be accepted. Barzakh is currently a non-paying market.

If your work is accepted, Barzakh acquires First Electronic Rights and Non-Exclusive Archival Rights.

In the interest of accessibility, we accept submissions by postal mail. If you would like to submit by mail, please send your work to the address below. Typed manuscripts are preferred, but we will also accept handwritten work. Snail mail submissions are always free, but if you would like your manuscript returned to you be sure to include a self-addressed & stamped envelope: