submissions

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 words
  • simultaneous 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 mags
  • we 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.com
  • we 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!