Fourteen Hills is now open to visual art, fiction, and nonfiction submissions for Issue 31's Special Feature: Local Legends and Hometown Horror.
Tell us your experiences with local legends/myths or create your own hometown horrors! It can be from Bigfoot to Indigenous myths to any eldritch horror, as long as its lore is tethered to the history of a town.
See below for general and genre-specific guidelines:
- Submissions only accepted via Submittable
- Cover letter section should include brief introduction, contact information, selected publication history, and any other relevant information. Cover letter should not be written as third person biography
- Art: 4 pages
- Fiction & Nonfiction: One long-form piece up to 25 pages OR up to 3 flash pieces at 1,000 words or less each. File preferred in .doc or .docx format (Microsoft Word or Open Office)
- Submissions which do not follow these guidelines will not be read.
As we are now an annual journal, please expect a wait time of 4-8 months.
If your submission is accepted for publication in the journal, you will receive two free copies of the issue your work appears in and a year's subscription.
We are now charging a small service fee ($2) for submissions to our Special Feature*. This administrative fee helps fund our online submission system.
(*Submission fees are waived for current subscribers to Fourteen Hills. To support us as a subscriber, please visit our Subscriptions page. If this fee poses a financial hardship, please email us at hills@sfsu.edu.)
We are adamantly opposed to AI-generated submissions and reserve the right to reject any piece created with AI-assistance on sight.
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Beginning June 16th, 2021, our subscription fee will be increased to $16. Subscriptions begin with the next published issue and subscription prices include shipping and handling. All current subscribers are entitled to free online submissions to Fourteen Hills.
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Fiction submissions can be 1 short story or novel excerpt (maximum 25 pages, though our sweet spot is 2,000-4,000 words) OR up to 3 flash fiction stories (maximum 1000 words each).
- Submission file(s) must be in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format (Microsoft Word, Open Office, or Pages)
- Cover letter section should include contact information, a third-person author biography (3–5 sentences in length), and any other relevant information.
- If you have questions about the status of your submission or subscription, please contact us at hills@sfsu.edu.
Creative nonfiction submissions should be 1 piece of long-form creative nonfiction (maximum 25 pages, though our sweet spot is 2,000-4,000 words) OR up to 3 flash/lyrical pieces (up to 1,000 words each).
- Submission file(s) must be in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format (Microsoft Word, Open Office, or Pages).
- Cover letter section should include contact information, a third-person author biography (3–5 sentences in length), and any other relevant information.
- If you have questions about the status of your submission or subscription, please contact us at hills@sfsu.edu.
Visual art submissions may be up to 4 pages of visual art. A series is welcome, but not required.
- Please label each image with your last name. If your name is not attached to the downloaded files, it is immensely difficult to keep track of and manage your valuable submissions. We want to see your work and give it the attention it deserves.
- Cover letter section should include contact information, a third-person author biography (3–5 sentences in length), and an image list including titles, art medium, size, and the year it was made. This context helps us decide a lot of things in terms of layout and design when publishing your work.
- Images should be set, at minimum, 300 ppi and generally will not appear larger than 6" by 9".
- If you have questions about the status of your submission or subscription, please contact us at hills@sfsu.edu.
Thank you for supporting Fourteen Hills as a current subscriber.
If you are not a current subscriber and would like to subscribe before submitting, please visit our Subscriptions page.
Fiction submissions can be 1 short story or novel excerpt (maximum 25 pages, though our sweet spot is 2,000-4,000 words) OR up to 3 flash fiction stories (maximum 1000 words each).
- Submission file(s) must be in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format (Microsoft Word, Open Office, or Pages)
- Cover letter section should include contact information, a third-person author biography (3–5 sentences in length), and any other relevant information.
- If you have questions about the status of your submission or subscription, please contact us at hills@sfsu.edu.
Thank you for supporting Fourteen Hills as a current subscriber.
If you are not a current subscriber and would like to subscribe before submitting, please visit our Subscriptions page.
Creative nonfiction submissions should be 1 piece of long-form creative nonfiction (maximum 25 pages, though our sweet spot is 2,000-4,000 words) OR up to 3 flash/lyrical pieces (up to 1,000 words each).
- Submission file(s) must be in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format (Microsoft Word, Open Office, or Pages).
- Cover letter section should include contact information, a third-person author biography (3–5 sentences in length), and any other relevant information.
- If you have questions about the status of your submission or subscription, please contact us at hills@sfsu.edu.
Thank you for supporting Fourteen Hills as a current subscriber.
If you are not a current subscriber and would like to subscribe before submitting, please visit our Subscriptions page.
Visual art submissions may be up to 4 pages of visual art. A series is welcome, but not required.
- Please label each image with your last name. If your name is not attached to the downloaded files, it is immensely difficult to keep track of and manage your valuable submissions. We want to see your work and give it the attention it deserves.
- Cover letter section should include contact information, a third-person author biography (3–5 sentences in length), and an image list including titles, art medium, size, and the year it was made. This context helps us decide a lot of things in terms of layout and design when publishing your work.
- Images should be set, at minimum, 300 ppi and generally will not appear larger than 6" by 9".
- If you have questions about the status of your submission or subscription, please contact us at hills@sfsu.edu.