Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) is a weekly online literary journal seeking essays, stories, poems and questions for her Giant Squid. We are especially interested in seasonal content. If you think your piece has a seasonal spin, please note the appropriate seasonal relationship in your cover letter.

WE HAVE UPDATED OUR SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES AS OF SUMMER 2007! PLEASE REVIEW THE CHANGES AND CLARIFICATIONS.

• Rants: one essay at a time. (A rant is a personal essay, and might take the form of a rave, a complaint, a memoir, a travelogue, a stump speech, an outlandish claim, a quiet prayer before dying, et cetera. It can also be about a favored pet.)
  
• Fiction: one story at a time
  
• Poetry: one poem at a time (If you have several you want to submit, please start with the best. If you have cycle of poems that should be considered for publication as a group, please submit them together in a single form and under a single title.)
  
• No multiple submissions: Please submit only one piece in a given genre at a time. If you submitted multiple pieces before June 1, 2007, all of your submissions will still be considered. For multiple submissions received on or after June 1, only the first piece received will be read.
  • We especially invite poets -- who are a notably prolific species of writer -- to submit rants on the topic of the craft of poetry.
• Simultaneous submissions are OK. Please indicate that the submission is being considered by other venues, and inform us immediately if it is accepted elsewhere.

Go directly to our Submission E-Z-Mailer
(Please, do not submit by email; email submissions are frequently lost to the wiles of our spam filter, and when they aren't lost are simply ignored for weeks and weeks before being considered.)

We cannot afford to pay you with cash, but we will honor you with glory, and if you come to Ann Arbor or San Francisco, to see the corporate office, we shall purchase you one (1) beer of our choice. Also, if you have five pieces published with us and have not retrieved a beer, you can exchange those promised beers for one super t-shirt.

Ten weeks, or thereabouts.

Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) holds three annual writing contests, the "$33-and-a-⅓ Meritorious Boons." These occur in series, have no entry fee, and pay out in cold, hard cash. In other words, there is a contest occurring right now and you can enter it. Learn more about our current 33-and-a-⅓ Contest

Authors retain their copyright on all works published on Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). By submitting a piece to Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) you agree that, should the piece be accepted, you grant Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right and license to digitally archive and display the piece (aka Digital Archive Rights.) In the case that we later desire to include your work in any other format (e.g. print, audio, etc.), those rights will be separately negotiated at that time.