Submission Guidelines
Change Seven’s reading periods are on hiatus at this time. Please check back for announcements!
Submission fee: Change Seven has implemented a small submission fee. This fee helps us to keep the lights on here at this small, volunteer-run magazine!
Entries must be submitted to the portal on Submittable. Submissions sent to the Change Seven email will be deleted.
Original submissions: With the exception of art, we only publish work that has not been published elsewhere, including blogs, substacks, or personal websites. We only publish ORIGINAL work, which means work that belongs to you or work that you have collaborated on with one or more artists, both/all in agreement. We accept no responsibility for misrepresented work. We flatly reject any work that is plagiarized or any work that has been made, altered, or assisted with AI.
By submitting your work to Change Seven Magazine, you accept full responsibility for its veracity, regardless of its genre; that any claims, allegations, charges, or damages that are made in regard to your work are your responsibility alone. We reserve the right to remove any work from our site that we have, in good conscience, accepted if it is later revealed to be misrepresented in any way.
Disclaimer: The views expressed on this site are not necessarily the views of Change Seven Magazine, its owners, editors, staff, contributors, partners, or affiliates. Change Seven seeks to offer a wide range of perspectives, opinions, and voices from all human experiences, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, political, religious, ethnic, cultural, or other identifiers. We invite views from all perspectives. Our only criterion is excellence in writing. We do, however, reserve the right to refuse to publish any work that may be deemed harmful, slanderous, or malicious, regardless of how well written it is.
Simultaneous submissions: We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. And please withdraw your work from our system. Thank you.
Literary Journal Aesthetic: We most enjoy writing that comes from experience, is well-crafted, lyrical, distinctive, and accessible. Language is important. Your submission should be a highly burnished object of artistry. We like work that takes risks, that is morally unflinching, not for the sake of spectacle but for some daunting and tender rendering of truth. That is not to say we don’t also admire subtlety and quieter pieces of work. We love those, too. Humor as well. Just make it matter. Give us something that in some way resonates with us deeply like only the human heart in conflict with itself knows how to do.
Poetry: Please, no more than 5 poems. Poems should be single-spaced and no longer than two pages each. We encourage prose poems that format easily on WordPress. Complicated formatting is discouraged.
Fiction: Submit one short story up to 5,000 words in length. We do not accept novel excerpts.
Creative Nonfiction: Submit one personal essay or memoir up to 5,000 words in length. We prefer work that offers some reflection.
Photography and Visual Art: Please submit no more than 10 images. Title or number images so we can identify work that may interest us. In addition to photography and traditional visual art, we are extremely interested in mixed media art images, audio and video compositions, textiles, sculpture, and any other art you think might appeal to us. If you have a piece or an idea that does not fit into one of the traditional categories above, please send us an email query. We’d love to talk about possibilities.
Book Reviews: Our editors are especially interested in reviewing new books published by independent and university presses. We also have a soft spot for books written by writers in Appalachia. We are open to reviewing great literature from Brooklyn, London, San Francisco, or wherever else great English-language writing is done. We aim to build community and encourage submissions from writers from underrepresented or marginalized communities.
Authors and publishers who wish for us to consider reviewing their work or scheduling a feature essay or interview should query the book review editors first. At this time, we do not review self-published work. Sending an ARC does not guarantee your work will be reviewed.
If you wish to have your book review published, please contact the book review editors. Email: changesevenmagazine.reviews@gmail.com.
Editing: We reserve the right to edit any work appearing on our site. Submitting with us means you’re okay with that. We will notify you if we feel there are substantial edits necessary, but tiny typos and the like will be corrected without notice.
Response Times: We try to read as quickly as possible, but the volume of submissions we receive may sometimes take us longer than anticipated. Please be patient.
Rights: Change Seven acquires North American First Serial rights and First Electronic Rights of accepted work. We respectfully request that authors wait to republish online or in print in the United States or Canada for 30 days after its exclusive appearance on the Change Seven website. Copyright is asserted on behalf of the author, and all reprint rights revert to the author/artist 30 days after publication. Please acknowledge Change Seven in any subsequent printing of the material. We reserve the right to archive work on our website and to print work appearing in Change Seven in future anthologies. If work is reprinted in anthology form, contributors will receive one copy.
