Submissions

Because of the overwhelming number of submissions to JACK Magazine, and the high number of pieces that we solicit, we would like to discourage unsolicited submissions unless you follow the guidelines below. Only submissions that follow these requirements will receive a reply (mainly 'cause we're swamped!):

• Read JACK and understand the scope of the magazine. Sure, it wobbles onto cluttered sidewalks and forested trails, but doesn't publish angst or diary entries.
• Read, read, and read everything.
• Spell-check your work; fix grammatical errors prior to submitting your work.
• Send your writing only in a Microsoft Word document that clearly shows the formatting (indents, italics, and so on). Do not send your writing in the content of an e-mail.
  • Do not indent first lines of paragraphs.
  • Em dashes should be coded as two hyphens.
  • Use only one space after each sentence.
  • Title each piece of your work.
• Do not send separate files for each piece of work. Send one document with all your pieces of work on it.
• If you want to submit graphics, send a sample of your work—no more than 1 megabyte—in a zipped file. Only send jpg or gif images. Include a caption for each image.
• Poetry is more likely to get rejected at this point (or at least held onto for a while) because poetry is the biggest submitted genre of work, and beggars can be picky! That's not to say that we don't want poetry; we do! However, we'd also like to see more essays and reviews. We are mainly looking for essays dealing with politics, spirituality, and ecology, and historical literary periods. We are also accepting reviews and articles about avant garde art, music, travel, films, books, and so on.
• Include a bio with your first submission.
• No work will be published that has, or is currently, elsewhere published online, except under special circumstances.
• Send your submissions to editor@jackmagazine.com. Send us e-mail, too, if you would like to be on our mailing list or would like to give feedback about the magazine.
• If you do not hear back, and you have followed these submissions, feel free to nudge us three months later. For now, JACK will be published semi-annually. (We started out quarterly, but the issues got larger and more frantic, so we slowed down.)
• JACK Magazine is a non-profit literary magazine that does not offer monetary payments for its contributions (we would, if we could, believe me). We are happy to help you plug your work, give you exposure, post your URLs, place book cover scans, etc.
• At this time, and maybe forever, JACK is an online publication only.