CRAFT magazine is an online literary magazine that pay writers for their submitted works.
Craft Magazine Submissions | How To Submit Your Work
CRAFT magazine is an online literary magazine that pay writers for their submitted works.
CRAFT explores the art of prose, celebrating both emerging and established writers. We focus on the craft of writing and how the elements of craft make a good story or essay shine. They feature new and republished fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as critical pieces on craft, interviews, book annotations, and much more.
Pay Rate:
Flash Fiction: $100
Original Short Fiction and Creative Fiction: $200
Essay/ Interview: $50/100
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Read their submission guidelines before submitting.
FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION
Our entire fiction library can be found in our Fiction Section. Our creative nonfiction library is found in the CNF Section.
Our creative categories are open year-round to any emerging or established author. We accept submissions from international writers. We review simultaneous submissions but ask that you inform us immediately and withdraw your work if it is accepted elsewhere. We pay our authors $100 for original flash and $200 for original short fiction and creative nonfiction. We do not charge submission fees, but are highly selective in what we choose to publish.
We will also consider previously published creative work, as long as the writer retains the rights or second-publication rights can be obtained. We do not pay for reprints.
Each published creative piece will include an editor’s introduction as well as a craft essay (author’s note) by the writer. These essays will be requested upon acceptance.
To read their author’s notes of previously published stories, please see CRAFT Fiction or CNF.
Flash Fiction, for work up to 1,000 words (see submission form for details about microfiction)
Short Fiction, for work up to 6,000 words
Flash Creative Nonfiction, for work up to 1,000 words (see submission form for details about microessays)
Creative Nonfiction, for work up to 6,000 words
Please review the guidelines in the submission form you choose for specifics about the genre. We’ve added some limits in an effort to improve our response time. We no longer allow multiple submissions—please send only one piece per genre at a time.
If your creative work is declined, we ask that you wait three months before submitting again to the same genre. You may have one piece of fiction (either short or flash), one piece of creative nonfiction (flash or creative essay), and one craft piece under consideration at one time.
CRAFT & Critical Writing / Interviews
We accept submissions of essays on writing craft, critical essays, and book annotations. We accept completed interviews/hybrid interviews or pitches. For a look at the type of content we publish, please visit our Craft Section. All work in this section is concerned with fiction or creative nonfiction. Please do not send critical work about poetry. Please do not send personal essays. We pay between $50 and $100 for original craft content.
Craft and critical essays range from 1,500 to 2,500 words concerning the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. We recommend familiarizing yourself with our archive. Most essays we publish contain a careful examination of an element or elements of craft in a piece or pieces of fiction/CNF.
Our book annotations generally focus on fiction or creative nonfiction writers/novelists who explicitly explore or subvert craft in their work. These pieces are typically between 1,500 and 2,000 words. We recommend familiarizing yourself with our archive.
For interviews and hybrids, we are interested in conversations with fiction and creative nonfiction writers/novelists focusing on the craft of writing. You may pitch in Submittable or query us for more information at contact (at) craftliterary (dot) com.
We no longer allow multiple submissions—please send only one piece per genre at a time. If your craft submission is declined, you may submit again to the craft genre immediately. You may have one piece of fiction (either short or flash), one piece of creative nonfiction (flash or creative essay), and one craft piece under consideration at one time.
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