Tahoma Literary Review — Graphic Narratives
Overview
Tahoma Literary Review operates at the intersection of literary and visual culture, and its Graphic Narratives category reflects a commitment to work that resists easy categorization. The journal seeks creative works that combine visual artwork with literary prose or poetry, treating the page as a site where image and text are not merely adjacent but genuinely integrated. This is not a call for illustrated stories or comics in the conventional sense, but for narratives in which the visual and the verbal are co-constitutive. The journal's editorial scope is deliberately broad within its defined parameters: submissions may be up to ten manuscript pages, and the accepted file formats—PNG, JPEG, or PDF—accommodate both digital and scanned analog practices. The payment structure is transparent and incremental: $50 for one to five pages, with an additional $10 per page beyond that. A $4 submission fee applies, though the category is also included in the journal's Complimentary Submissions offering, which waives fees for qualifying contributors. There is no prize attached; the reward is publication and payment for work accepted. What distinguishes this opportunity is its respect for the hybrid form. Tahoma Literary Review does not treat graphic narrative as a novelty or a sidebar to its prose and poetry offerings. The guidelines are precise, the compensation is stated plainly, and the deadline is fixed. For artists and writers working at the boundary of text and image, this is a venue that understands the form's demands and rewards its practitioners with both space and payment.