Sinking City is based out of Miami, where rising sea levels threaten the future of a diverse, multicultural community. Our online literary journal is published semi-annually by MFA students and undergraduate interns at the University of Miami.
The average response time for submissions is between 1 and 6 months. If you have not received a response after 6 months, please check on the status of your submission in Submittable.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome, just please indicate this somewhere in your submission. Additionally, please notify us immediately if the work is accepted elsewhere. (And congratulations if that's the case!)
Past contributors, please wait three years from the date of your publication to resubmit work. We'd like to highlight urgent work from new artists in every issue.
Our masthead changes annually and our specific wants may vary issue to issue, so be sure to read any guidelines specific to the genre and issue you are submitting to.
Sinking City is looking for writing engaged in REBELLION, RITUAL, AND REDACTION.
for this issue, we’d like to-
immortalize prose and verse.
any mighty words emerging in the world that rival and disrupt terror.
work that is alive with love l[ov]e love.
In particular, we are looking for work that engages in disobedience. We want work that contends with non-conformity and resistance. Conversely, how do rituals- tea routines, watch parties, congregations, communities- ground you in the chaos?
What has made you hungry? What has nourished you? What has disappeared? What has been disappeared?
What is there, just now sinking, still close enough for you to catch if you jump in after it?
Please submit 1000 to 5000 words of your best fiction.
Sinking City is looking for writing engaged in REBELLION, RITUAL, AND REDACTION.
for this issue, we’d like to-
immortalize prose and verse.
any mighty words emerging in the world that rival and disrupt terror.
work that is alive with love l[ov]e love.
In particular, we are looking for work that engages in disobedience. We want work that contends with non-conformity and resistance. Conversely, how do rituals- tea routines, watch parties, congregations, communities- ground you in the chaos?
What has made you hungry? What has nourished you? What has disappeared? What has been disappeared?
What is there, just now sinking, still close enough for you to catch if you jump in after it?
For this section, we're looking for photo essays, mini-autoethnographies, zuihitsus, and other genre nonconforming work.
Please limit your submissions to 6000 words and 20 pages maximum for multimedia.
Sinking City is looking for writing engaged in REBELLION, RITUAL, AND REDACTION.
for this issue, we’d like to-
immortalize prose and verse.
any mighty words emerging in the world that rival and disrupt terror.
work that is alive with love l[ov]e love.
In particular, we are looking for work that engages in disobedience. We want work that contends with non-conformity and resistance. Conversely, how do rituals- tea routines, watch parties, congregations, communities- ground you in the chaos?
What has made you hungry? What has nourished you? What has disappeared? What has been disappeared?
What is there, just now sinking, still close enough for you to catch if you jump in after it?
Please submit up to 5 of your best poems or your best 8 pages of poems total.
Sinking City is looking for writing engaged in REBELLION, RITUAL, AND REDACTION.
for this issue, we’d like to-
immortalize prose and verse.
any mighty words emerging in the world that rival and disrupt terror.
work that is alive with love l[ov]e love.
In particular, we are looking for work that engages in disobedience. We want work that contends with non-conformity and resistance. Conversely, how do rituals- tea routines, watch parties, congregations, communities- ground you in the chaos?
What has made you hungry? What has nourished you? What has disappeared? What has been disappeared?
What is there, just now sinking, still close enough for you to catch if you jump in after it?
Please submit up to three pieces of prose under 1000 words each.