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.
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.
From the pastoral elegy, to the ecopoetics of the Anthropocene, writers from all times and places have been concerned with their relationship to the earth—and vice versa. This call seeks work which engages the natural world as dynamic; which incorporates the earth’s relationship to us, or to itself; which looks through Spinoza's lens of Natura Naturans, or “nature naturing.” In other words, we are hoping to see poems, prose and art that attempt to establish a dialogue with nature rather than merely talking to the natural world.
Genre Guidelines
For prose, please submit one story or essay. Our ideal length is 2000 to 5000 words.
For poetry, please send three to six pages, all in the same document.
For visual art, up to three pieces in the same file.
For translations, please include the original version of the text alongside your translation, along with permissions whenever relevant.