FLARE Magazine

Submitting your work

FLARE accepts submissions via its website during two reading periods each year: January 1–31 and July 1–31. Send up to five poems or one piece of short prose (under 2,000 words) in a single .docx or .pdf file. Include a brief cover letter with your name, contact information, and a third-person bio of no more than 50 words. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but notify the editors immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. The magazine does not charge submission fees and pays contributors a modest honorarium upon publication. Response times average 4–6 weeks; please query only after 8 weeks. The editors appreciate work that demonstrates a clear engagement with the issue's theme, but they are equally open to unsolicited work that challenges their assumptions.

Avoid using lots of special formatting for poetry submissions, as WordPress struggles to do fancy formatting. Please submit prose and poetry in Microsoft Word, but if you don’t have this, PDF is fine. The stories, essays, and poems submitted must be about disabilities, chronic illnesses, and/or mental health. Art doesn’t have to be, but the artist must be disabled, chronically ill, and/or deal with mental health.