The Opiate

Submitting your work

Before submitting, read several issues to understand the magazine's aesthetic, which favors the visceral, the strange, and the unvarnished over the polished or predictable. Send your strongest, most honest work—pieces that feel necessary rather than merely competent. Simultaneous submissions are generally accepted, but notify promptly if your work is placed elsewhere. Expect a small, editor-run operation: response times can be slow, and feedback is rare. Do not query about status until at least three months have passed. Above all, avoid work that feels like it was written to impress an academic committee; The Opiate seeks writing that breathes, bleeds, and takes risks.

Please send submission in a Word document file with a brief bio and what, if anything, motivated you to send your work to The Opiate (it can be as honest as “I want to be published in print”).