hello! thank you for considering us as a home for your work :)
submission guidelines
we publish one piece per week, on tuesdays. our submissions will remain perpetually open, so feel free to send us work whenever you’d like.poetry. max 3 poems per submission & no word limit.
prose. max 2 pieces per submission & no piece should exceed 1200 wordssimultaneous submissions are accepted, but please notify us promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere.we typically prefer for dishsoap to be the first place your work has appeared, but are more than happy to give a new home to work stuck in defunct/discontinued journals and magswe encourage and enjoy work that tackles tough topics, but we will reserve the right to ignore a submission if it includes anything nsfw, racist, homophobic, ableist, transphobic, sexist, or anything generally involving discrimination or hate speech.if your work is accepted, we request that you credit us when sending it to other places in the future.if your work is rejected, we ask that you wait 1 month before submitting again. if your work is accepted, we ask that you wait 2 months before submitting again.we will generally aim to respond within one week. If you haven’t heard from us after two weeks, feel free to email dishsoap.mag@gmail.com with as much horrific language as you deign necessary.to withdraw your work, please email the titles of the pieces you would like to withdraw to dishsoap.mag@gmail.comwe are currently not a paying market-- though we hope one day to be :)we will be nominating for awards and prizes again starting in the 2025 cycle!send your work to us through our submissions form!