Guernica is looking for submissions of poetry, essays, reportage/journalism, criticism and fiction. Read the guidelines carefully to make sure that the submissions go to the correct section.
Global Spotlights is for excerpts of work, 3,000-7,000 words, ‘published outside the Western corridors of literary taste-making and prestige’. Work is accepted in translation, particularly work which ‘retains inflections of the original.’ In fiction, they’re looking for short stories, novel excerpts, and hybrid texts, ‘fiction that is adventurous, unapologetic, experimental’. For non-fiction, it’s essays, reportage, memoir, criticism, and hybrid forms. Submissions in either genre must have been published within the last year by
