Open submissions are welcome from 1 September through May 15. The themed submissions will run for 5 months before closing. Check back for other themed issues throughout the year.
Please follow specific genre guidelines when formatting and uploading your submission and limit your cover letter to 150 words or less. Full guidelines can be accessed by clicking on the plus sign located at the top right of each genre category listed below.
Although we do accept simultaneous submissions, we do not accept work that has been previously published either in print or online.
If work is accepted for publication, Interim obtains First North American Serial Rights and, for the period of one year, Electronic Rights. After that time, copyright reverts to the author. Writers whose work appears in the annual print volume will receive one free contributor copy of that volume and will receive a discount on any additional copies ordered.
You will see that we're now charging a reading fee for all submissions. This has become a necessity to help defray the costs of our expanding publishing operations, which include producing our quarterly online issues and the annual print volume of the journal, hosting live and online events, and developing and launching the many new projects we're working on across content platforms.
We appreciate your continued interest and support and look forward to spending time with your work.
The Test Site Poetry Series is open to all writers who are seeking to place an unpublished manuscript. All submissions must be at least 48 pages. We will consider “New & Selected” or “Collected” manuscripts including work from previously published books. If poems in the manuscript have been previously published, enclose an acknowledgments page.
Interim: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics run the annual Test Site Poetry Series contest. Each year, two books are chosen by the series board, one which is the winner of The Test Site Poetry Series and the other which receives The Betsy Joiner Flanagan Award in Poetry. The authors of the winning books will both receive $1,000 and the books will be published by the University of Nevada Press.
Please submit manuscripts with a $25 reading fee. Be sure to remove any identifying information from your title page before submitting, i.e.name and email or home address. If your name appears anywhere else in the manuscript, be sure to remove it. This is a CLMP best practice, to ensure anonymity in the process.
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2027. The winning manuscript will be announced in spring and published in the fall of 2027.
Greetings,
In your cover letter, please include the name of the editor who invited you to send work, which category that work falls under (Poetry, Poetry Hybrid Form, Essay, Fiction, Nonfiction, Artwork or Translationetc.), and when that work was solicited.
Fees are waived for solicited work.
In solidarity,
Claudia Keelan
Editor
Interim is working on streamlining their website and we want to showcase original photography of the southwest and promote our artists. We're looking for an image for our landing page that represents the beauty of the Southwest and the colors, textures, and shadows of our ever-changing landscape.
Submissions are FREE and will be closing on May 1, 2025.
The selected photograph will be featured on Interim's Homepage and the photographer will be credited.