We would like to read your work. To ensure that we do, please follow both the general and the genre guidelines carefully. Incorrectly formatted submissions may be ignored. We do not accept previously published work. We consider work that has appeared in print journals or on blogs or other websites to be "previously published."Unfortunately, we cannot offer any financial compensation for published work at this time.

Submission Deadlines/Reading Periods.
We accept submissions on a rolling basis. Even though we've only just turned 2, Fringe is already having quite a growth spurt! We've received so many submissions that we need to take a break to give each piece the attention it deserves. To that end, on June 1 we will be closing submissions for the summer. So enjoy the sunshine, write all you can, then get ready to submit to Fringe when submissions reopen on September 1.

How to Submit.
Email submissions to the appropriate genre address (see BY GENRE). In your email, please include a cover letter, brief bio and your full name. Your subject line should include your name, the title(s) of the work(s), and word count (line count(s) for poetry).

We prefer Word or RTF attachments (PC platform) but will accept almost any compatible document form we can open, including text of e-mail messages. You may submit in .doc, .jpg, .gif, or .png format. Please note: We cannot open .wps or .bin files.

If you submit work in an attachment, please do NOT include your personal information within the file, as our submissions process is blind.

Simultaneous Submissions.
Are accepted. Please do not send us more than two total submissions at a single time. Please notify us immediately if your piece has been accepted elsewhere.

Acceptance.
If your work is accepted, you will receive an email to the address you provide. The work that is accepted remains part of Fringe's online archive system for readers to access in the future. We are granted first electronic publishing rights. All other rights revert to the writer after publication. Unfortunately, we cannot offer any financial compensation for published work at this time.

Art
Submit 3-7 works of visual art, clearly labeled, attached in .jpg, .gif, or .png format.
FringeArt@gmail.com

Critical Essays
We like criticism on artistic works or social trends with fully documented sources in MLA format. Annotations of poems are also welcome. Keep it to 5,000 words, and use endnotes instead of footnotes for formatting purposes, please.
FringeCriticism@gmail.com

(de)Classified
Can't mash your art into our categories? Submit it here. This genre includes, but is not limited to: experimental work, monologues, scripts, spoken word, and six word novels. We also accept audio with a bitrate of 160 or above in .mp3 format. There is no word limit here, but be advised that the longer your work is, the better it must be to justify the space devoted to it. Surprise us!
FringeOther@gmail.com

Fiction
Due to the volume of submissions, the fiction section is closed to regular submissions until December 15. However, please feel free to submit work for our environmentally-themed issue in the meantime. See the "Special Calls" section for details.

Short stories and self-contained novel exerpts should be 7,000 words or shorter Ñ about 22 double spaced pages. Please submit only 1 short story or novel excerpt at a time. For Fringe purposes, a flash fiction (or ShortShort) piece is less than 1,000 words. Submit 1-3 at a time, and please put "Flash Fiction" in the subject line.
FringeFiction@gmail.com

Nonfiction
Creative Nonfiction should be no more than 7,000 words and includes memoir, personal essays, columns, etc.
FringeNonFiction@gmail.com

Poetry
Please submit a minimum of 4 poems, but no more than 7 poems at a time, in a single attachment. Longer poetry (40 lines or more) must be submitted separately, only one poem per submission. Please send in an attachment, and include the words "Long Poem" in the subject heading of your email.
FringePoetry@gmail.com

Special Call.
Have an idea for our next theme issue? Send it to FringeTheMagazine@gmail.com.

Artists and writers are in a unique position to shape and expand our understanding of humans’ relationships with the natural world. For Fringe’s third anniversary issue, we're looking for stories, commentary, poetry and art that show us something unexpected about the environment and our place within it.

How do you locate yourself in relation to the natural world? Within your particular biome? In this era of green marketing and of increasingly blurry lines between built environments and "the wild," what does "natural" signify? We want a range of viewpoints, from visions of windmills to visions of the post-apocalyptic future. Guerilla gardening, ecofeminism, green building, transit, ecology, environmental ethics--just make it green and keep it fringey. Submissions close December 15, 2008. Please add "Environment" to your subject line.