WELCOME TO ELJ EDITIONS, LTD.
Please refer to individual journal categories for their respective Guidelines. We strongly encourage multiple and simultaneous submissions to one or both of our journals. Don't be shy!
Emerge Literary Journal is OPEN to submissions. We are open to submissions in the following windows:
1/1-2/15
4/1-5/15
7/1-8/15
10/1-11/15
LitBlitz submissions are currently CLOSED. Check out our Twitter feed for the latest updates. These categories will automatically open up and close when they are available for submissions.
Manuscript submissions are currently CLOSED.
A kind reminder to submit all your pieces in one document and submit only once per submission window.
Five Microchaps | One Volume | One Binding
Tell us your stories of grief and hope, however you may interpret them.
Send us one titled micro-chapbook, consisting of 8-12 fresh, innovative, thematically-connected prose manuscripts. Each of the 8-12 pieces must be 500 words or less.
Genres: Fiction, CNF, Hybrid, or any combo thereof.
Up to 30% of the manuscripts may have been previously published.
Payment: 5 copies
Reading Fee: $5
Open 6/15-9/15
Publication 6/20/25
Emerge Literary Journal believes that #mentalillnessawareness and #endingthestigma are of paramount importance. We believe in the necessity of sharing our mental illness stories to facilitate writing through illness and create broader awareness. We aim to publish and showcase work in this category in each issue. We ask that you follow our regular guidelines (full guidelines here) for poetry and prose when submitting to this category.
Please send no more than 3 stories in one document at a time. We accept flash CNF up to a maximum of 750 words. You can see our full guidelines here.
Please include a short 3-4 line third person bio in the Submittable cover letter only. Please do not include biographical information or your name in the submission itself.
Please send no more than 3 stories in one document at a time. We accept flash fiction up to a maximum of 750 words. You can see our full guidelines here.
Please include a short 3-4 line third person bio in the Submittable cover letter only. Please do not include biographical information or your name in the submission itself.
Please send 3-4 at a time. You can see our full guidelines here.
Please include a short 3-4 line third person bio in the Submittable cover letter only. Please do not include biographical information or your name in the submission itself.
"A story is a complete dramatic action..." ~ Flannery O'Connor
ELJ Editions appreciates the difficult writers have in placing longer stories. We want quality fiction that grabs us and doesn't let go. Stories we wish we had written. We're looking for characters, plot, stories, etc. Keep us engaged by maintaining focus and forward momentum. We want voice, experimental, you name it. We'll consider most genres and cross-genres so long as it has deep literary undertones to it. Please no romance or erotica.
ELJ Editions is currently accepting submissions of single author, single stories of 8,000-15,000 words for ebook/print publication.
STORY MUST BE PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED IN ANY LENGTH.
WORD COUNT MUST BE INCLUDED ALONG WITH A SHORT SYNOPSIS.