Redivider: Fiction Submissions

Overview
Redivider is the graduate literary journal of Emerson College, an institution with a long-standing reputation in American letters. The journal publishes fiction, and its editorial stance is defined less by a single aesthetic than by a commitment to prose that is deliberate, well-crafted, and resistant to the merely conventional. The current call invites short fiction between 1,200 and 6,000 words; shorter works are directed to the journal's flash fiction category. There is no submission fee, a rarity among comparable publications, and no prize is attached—the reward is publication itself, within a journal that has historically served as an early home for writers who go on to significant careers. The guidelines are unusually candid about genre. Redivider will consider genre writing provided the prose is strong enough, but it explicitly steers hard science fiction, high fantasy, and tawdry romance elsewhere. This is not a dismissal of genre but a statement of editorial fit: the journal favors work in which language and character carry the story, regardless of its trappings. Writers should read recent issues to understand the range of voices the journal has published, from realist short stories to speculative work that earns its place through sentence-level control. Eligibility restrictions are firm and worth noting. Current Emerson College students, faculty, and staff may not submit, and alumni must wait three years after graduation. These rules are standard for university-affiliated journals seeking to avoid conflicts of interest and to maintain an open field for outside writers. For the right writer, this is a clear, no-cost opportunity to place a story with a respected journal that reads submissions with attention.