DIAGRAM — Submissions
Overview
DIAGRAM is a literary magazine that has long occupied a singular position at the intersection of text and image. While its exact organizational affiliation is not specified in the provided data, the magazine's title and genre classification signal a curatorial commitment to work that thinks visually—whether through concrete poetry, diagrammatic structures, or prose that interrogates the relationship between language and form. For writers whose practice engages with the visual, the spatial, or the schematic, DIAGRAM offers a natural home. The magazine publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and its reading period is rolling, meaning there is no fixed deadline. This open submissions policy is a practical invitation to submit work at any time, though it also demands that writers be especially deliberate about when and how they send their work. Because there is no external deadline to anchor a submission, the onus is on the writer to ensure the manuscript is fully realized and appropriately matched to the magazine's aesthetic. What DIAGRAM offers is publication in a venue that respects the intelligence of its readership and the formal ambitions of its contributors. The magazine does not traffic in promotional promises; its reputation rests on the work it publishes. For the writer, the reward is placement in a journal that treats literature as a site of inquiry, not merely expression. The curatorial vision is one of rigorous play—work that takes seriously the possibilities of form while remaining alive to the pleasures of language.