Decolonial Passage encourages emerging and established writers to submit to the magazine. We accept writing from writers of all backgrounds engaged in the decolonial project regardless of race, origin, gender, disability, or geographical location. Simultaneoulsy Decolonial Passage centers African, African-American, and Black Diaspora writing from the African continent, the Americas, Europe, and beyond. Read our Mission Statement to get a fuller understanding of Decolonial Passage and how the magazine interprets the concept of passage as both text and movement across geographical space. Read what we’ve published to get a sense of what the magazine is about.
WRITING GUIDELINES:
We accept simultaneous submissions, but please inform us that you are submitting with Decolonial Passage and with another publisher. Also, please inform us immediately if your work has been accepted elsewhere.
Please, no multiple submissions. Submit your writing in one genre per submission period.
All work must be your own.
Because Decolonial Passage is a platform for human creative works, we do not accept submissions that contain AI processes. (Spellcheckers and grammar tools are not AI.)
We do not accept previously published work.
For essays, creative nonfiction and flash fiction, submit one piece only.
Rolling/Open Submissions in:
Essays and creative nonfiction wordcount maximum 2500 words.
Short stories maximum 3500 words.
Flash fiction and flash nonfiction maximum 800 words each. Submit one piece or a maximum of two pieces (on one document) totaling 1600 words or less.
For poetry, writers may submit up to three poems during the months of Jan, March, May, July, Sept, or Nov.
Format – submit your work in MS Word or doc format. Use size 12 font, double-spaced, Times New Roman with one-inch margins. Please include your name on your manuscript.
Because we currently have rolling submissions, we ask that you submit only once every six months.
Our goal is to have a response to your submission no later than 3 months time.
Decolonial Passage is unable to compensate writers at this time but has the intention of functioning as a cooperative and being able to offer a modest compensation in the near future.
All submissions must include a cover letter and a short and current bio.
Decolonial Passage will submit our authors to the following awards and prizes:
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
TERMS & AGREEMENTS:
You (the writer) acknowledge that the work is your own and belongs to you. Decolonial Passage may solicit your approval to make revisions in the interest of style and uniformity. Decolonial Passage retains first publishing rights on works published in print or online, the non-exclusive right to reproduce, display, and/or distribute the Submission as part of Decolonial Passage in electronic format, as well as the right to republish your work in a digital or print anthology. Publishing rights revert to the author upon initial publication in the Decolonial Passage magazine. If the Submission contains material for which you do not hold copyright, any third party owned material is clearly identified and acknowledged within the text or content of the Submission. If your work has been accepted for publication after being published in Decolonial Passage, we simply ask that you credit Decolonial Passage as the original publisher. Decolonial Passage may withdraw the offer for publication at any time.
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