Please submit submissions for River Styx's themed issue: Posthuman.

Visit our Submissions Guidelines at https://www.riverstyx.org for additional details on submitting work for consideration for this issue.

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• Work submitted to River Styx must be previously unpublished in print or online.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. 
• Work must be under 3000 words in length.
• 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.

THIS PAGE IS FOR SCRIPTS AND PLAYS ONLY.

Please upload screenplays, short plays, and longer plays here. 

THIS PAGE IS FOR FICTION ONLY.

• Fiction submitted to River Styx must be previously unpublished in print or online.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 in a cover letter or note 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. (Also, note that stories can show as being "In-Progress" in Submittable for several months.)
• Prose pieces should be typed, double-spaced, and page-numbered. Send no more than one short (1500 or more words) or longer story/novelette/novella per submission. 
• Stories of 1500 or fewer words 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.

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 between four and twelve images. We appreciate 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.