Thank you for submitting to River Styx Magazine. For more information about our submission guidelines, please visit our site. We look forward to reading your work!
THIS PAGE IS FOR FICTION ONLY. This includes short plays as well as prose.
- Work submitted to River Styx must be previously unpublished in print or online.
- Please include a word count in your cover letter.
- If your work is fewer than 500 words, feel free to send up to three pieces.
- We will read simultaneous submissions, but ask that you inform us of such and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Expect three to five months for a decision. Please do not query us or send another manuscript until five months have passed.
- THIS PAGE IS FOR NONFICTION ONLY.
- Work submitted to River Styx must be previously unpublished in print or online.
- We will read simultaneous submissions, but ask that you inform us of such and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Expect three to five months for a decision. Please do not query us or send another manuscript until five months have passed.
- Prose pieces should be typed, double-spaced, and page-numbered. Send no more than one short story or essay per submission.
- Stories/essays of 500 words or fewer may be sent in groups of up to three.
- Translations are welcome if permission has been granted from owner of copyright.
- No e-mail submissions of any kind will be considered. If you wish to submit electronically, please use Submittable.
- We no longer accept hard copy submissions.
- All submissions will be considered for our online magazine. We no longer publish a print edition.
THIS PAGE IS FOR MULTIMEDIA SUBMISSIONS ONLY.
- Works may include paintings, photographs, animation, video, graphic short fiction, digital illustration, prints, and other media (including high-quality photos of 3-D or mixed-media work).
- Allow up to five months for a response.
- For cover art we seek a single, striking color image, with the possibility of printing a second, related image on the back cover. Cover images should be horizontal/landscape orientation (or able to be cropped).
- Graphic stories may run as long as they need to tell the story. Page length is limited only by how long they keep our interest.
- If your work is a part of a series of images, please submit up to 12 images. We like having choices.
- If submitting a multi-page artistic work, such as a graphic short story, please submit only one at a time.
- For larger files, please contact us using the form on the Contact page for further instructions.
THIS PAGE IS FOR POETRY ONLY.
- Work submitted to River Styx must be previously unpublished in print or online.
- Please include a cover letter with a brief bio.
- Send up to five poems per submission.
- Translations are welcome if permission has been granted from owner of copyright.
- We will read simultaneous submissions, but ask that you inform us of such and notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
- Expect three to five months for a decision. Please do not query us or send another manuscript until five months have passed.