Online Journal Submissions
Burrow Press considers submissions year-round for publication in Fantastic Floridas––our online literary journal of Florida, literature, books, culture and the uncategorizable.
Please submit your work to the correct category––fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics––and read the category guidelines carefully before submitting.
If you're looking to submit to BP Review, we are no longer accepting submissions, as BP Review has merged with Fantastic Floridas.
ATTENTION LIT MAGS & PRESSES: Fantastic Floridas runs excerpts from lit mags and presses based in Florida (the excerpts do not need a Florida connection); and excerpts from forthcoming books set in Florida (publishers need not be based in Florida). To pitch an excerpt, please contact us here.
Print book submissions
For a limited time beginning in Feb. 2017, Burrow will be considering agented and un-agented submissions for our 2019 and beyond catalogs. We'll have categories open for novels, story collections, essays collections and memoirs. Special consideration will be given to underrepresented Florida authors and/or books that tackle Florida themes and places in a literary light. Despite our broad "literary" preference, we welcome experimental styles and, if you take a look at our current catalog, you'll notice our penchant for the weird (magic realism, absurdism, dark humor, etc).
Fantastic Floridas explores the intersection between Florida, literature, art, culture, and the uncategorizable, while highlighting Florida writers, presses, lit mags and literary organizations. The name is taken, out of context, from Rimbaud’s poem, “The Drunken Boat.” The goal of FF is to form an online hub that engages readers in a conversation about Florida’s relationship to literature and art, and artists' relationships to Florida.
We are particularly interested in work that avoids common stereotypes, cliches, and tropes associated with Florida. Don't discount the weirdness, just handle it artfully.
We are open to all kinds of poetry, as long as there is a strong Florida connection.
- Submit up to 3 poems - each poem in a separate file
Please DO NOT send us:
- Full length manuscripts
Simultaneous submissions are okay with us.
PLEASE wait to receive a response on a submission before submitting again. Response time: 1 - 2 months.
We are particularly interested in work that avoids common stereotypes, cliches, and tropes associated with Florida. Don't discount the weirdness, just handle it artfully.
We realize our Florida theme limits the kind of fiction we'll receive, and so we are open to short stories with a subtle, minimal or loosely interpreted Florida connection. In other words, take a chance! Fiction that uses genre elements is also welcome, including horror, spec, sci-fi, and "weird" fiction. Experimental / hybrid forms are also welcome.
Successful submissions, be they "genre" or "literary" (the distinction isn't all that important to us), will display strong prose and tend to bend the tropes of a given genre more than conform to them.
Use this submittable category to send us:
- Flash Fiction - 500 words or less - up to 3 at a time, separate files for each story
- Fiction of 500 words or more - 1 at a time - please wait until we've replied to your current submission before submitting another story.
- Full length manuscripts
Simultaneous submissions are okay with us.
PLEASE wait to receive a response on a submission before submitting again. Response time: 1 - 2 months.
We are particularly interested in work that avoids common stereotypes, cliches, and tropes associated with Florida. Don't discount the weirdness, just handle it artfully.
We are open to all kinds of genres of work, as long as there is a strong Florida connection.
Use this nonfiction category to send us:
- Creative nonfiction (narrative journalism, lyric essay, personal essay, travel writing, experimental / hybrid, etc.)
- Author interviews (there must be a strong Florida connection to the author or the work evident in the interview)
- Conversations (between two or more writers, concerning the role of Florida in literature, specific Florida books or writers, the influence of Florida on literature, etc)
Please DO NOT send us:
- Book reviews (unless you are using a book as a springboard for an essayistic meditation on Florida / Florida literature... see "creative nonfiction")
- Full length manuscripts
WORD COUNT: No minimum word count. Max word count for all submissions: 5,000. Query for longer work.
Simultaneous submissions are okay with us.
PLEASE wait to receive a response on a submission before submitting again. Response time: 1 - 2 months.
