CHISMOSA LITERARY

Interested in seeing your work on our website?

We are currently accepting submissions in the following categories:

• Poetry (max. 3 poems)
• Prose (max. 500 words)
• Flash Fiction (max. 700 words)
• Creative Nonfiction (max. 5,000 words)
• Short Stories (max. 5,000 words)

We prefer writing to be single-spaced and in a standard 11pt font. Send us an email to chismosalit@gmail.com. Please attach your work as a PDF or Word document, and do not include any identifying information. Writing can be in English, Spanish, or both. Feel free to include a short bio (<50 words) in the body of your email. The subject line should begin with the genre of your work followed by the title. Example:

Subject: Prose, “Pasquali the Dreamer”

Our debut issue is themed “CHISMOSA.” To celebrate the beginning of our magazine, we will be awarding $100 to the piece that best captures the spirit of chismosa that lives in all writers. We want work that explores the idea that to be a writer is to gossip; it is to people-watch and eavesdrop and turn the things we observe into protagonists and plot-devices. Give us a story brimming with gossip, or write a poem to tell us about the art of eavesdropping. Tell us what being a chismosa writer means to you.

We accept all genres of writing, and we encourage work that is experimental. Pieces that are heavily inspired by real people and events are encouraged. We aim to turn Chismosa Literary into a paying market as soon as possible, but we are currently unable to pay writers aside from for the contest. Only one submission per reading period per author. The deadline for our debut issue and the competition is March 1st, 2024. Please feel free to send comments and questions using our contact form.