Submissions Open June 15
HFR News: Spring/Summer 2025 Web Issue Published
HFR’s Summer Submissions Window
HFR’s new editorial team will begin assembling our next print issue in the fall, and we’re looking for exciting new work to bring to our audience! Writers, have your work considered for Issue 77 by submitting between June 15 and July 15. Some details:
The issue has no theme. Submit your best work, whatever it’s about.
We charge a submission fee of $3 to cover the costs of printing the issue and running the magazine.
To further our mission of highlighting voices traditionally underrepresented in the literary landscape, we welcome underrepresented writers to submit for free. Free submissions will be capped at 50 per genre, so if you’d like to take advantage of this option, submit early.
What Are We Looking For?
HFR looks for well-crafted work that takes risks, challenges readers, and engages us emotionally and artistically. We’re interested in writing that takes risks with language and form, that challenges borders and systems of power, and that stretches the bounds of genre. More specifically, please submit work within these limits:
Prose writers: submit fiction and nonfiction up to 20 pages.
Poets: submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 8 pages.
Translators: submit translations of poetry or prose into English, alongside the original work. (Note that translation submissions are open year-round!)
Visual artists: submit 5-8 pieces. Art subs are also open year-round, and they’re free!
For full guidelines, visit our website, and bookmark our Submittable to return to when submissions open Sunday! For now, start getting your work ready – we can’t wait to read it!
Read The New Web Issue: Desire
Our Spring/Summer 2025 Web Issue was published earlier this month!
With a curated collection of poetry and prose on the theme of Desire, the issue makes for steamy summer reading. Our call for submissions asked writers to be inspired by the Oscar Wilde quote, “The only thing worse than not getting what you want is getting it.”
Read the full issue online now.