Submissions are closed until further notice.

Thank you for your continued support.

All submissions will be considered for both Beecher’s print and Beecher’s online editions. We do not accept previously published work (this includes anywhere on the web). Simultaneous submissions are perfectly acceptable, but please contact us immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Please see specific genre requirements below before submitting.

Due to an influx of unsolicited submissions, the editors of Beecher’s have decided to enact a reading period for each issue that coincides with the academic year in question. As we said before, though, when we reach a publication deadline, never fear—if your work is good, we will consider it for the next issue. Please include your contact information on the first page of your manuscript in the upper left-hand corner (Name, Address, Email, and Phone). Also please include the word count in the upper right-hand corner. If you have a brief query, you may attach it through our submission manager.

We offer payment in the form of two contributor’s copies at this time.

Please submit only online via Submishmash.

Submission Guidelines from the Editors:

Poetry

We hope to receive poetry that is aware of itself as a communicative act, almost certainly bound to fail, but hopeful in spite of it. We don’t mean that the poems we prefer will fail to communicate anything at all to the reader; rather, they try to communicate something about how difficult it is to be sincere, or how language is a frustratingly joyous thing that we flounder around in to no avail, or that language’s only avail is that it sometimes satisfies us, seems to connect us with people’s faces and brains, gets us laid. We want poetry to do all of that.  We accept 3-5 poems per submission or 10 pages total.