Club Plum Literary Journal

Submitting your work

Club Plum accepts submissions year-round via Submittable, with no reading fee for standard submissions. The editors recommend reading at least two recent issues before submitting, as the journal's taste leans toward the spare, the strange, and the visually aware. For text submissions, send up to five poems or one prose piece under 2,000 words; for hybrid work, a single PDF or DOCX that preserves any visual layout is preferred. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please withdraw promptly if accepted elsewhere. Response times typically range from four to eight weeks, and the editors often provide brief, constructive notes even on rejections—so a cover letter that situates your work within the journal's aesthetic, rather than listing credentials, is more likely to be remembered.

Please adhere to the simple submission guidelines. Words that describe accepted pieces: surreal, lyrical, tight, strange, beautiful, melancholy, profound.