Literary

Please submit your finished piece & requirements listed below to hello@currantjam.org with the subject line “Currant Jam Submission – Your Name”. We will not consider reprints, unfinished work or work outside of our submission period. 

For Issue No. 6 (coming out in spring, 2025), we will accept a total of five stories and three poems.

• Submit finished work only. Unfinished work will not be considered

• Only new work, no work that has already been published

• We are open to literary fiction, narrative nonfiction & poetry on any subject or theme

• We read stories between 5,000 to 10,000 words–please include title and byline

• We read poetry up to 800 words, please include title and byline

• Submissions should be in Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spaced

• Please proof read; work littered with obvious grammatical and punctuation errors will count against your submission

• Include your name, pronouns & the city where you live

• If you are including any accompanying visuals with your piece, please make sure you are sending them as .tiff or .jpeg files at 11.7” x 8.27” at 300 dpi (pixels per inch) (p.s. you can easily change the photo size in photo editing apps or photoshop). Please send them as individual files from your written work. If we receive images that do not meet these requirements, they will not be included with your piece