NOW ACCEPTING PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PIECES!
Just a Cuppa Literary Journal is proud to accept from an incredibly wide selection of media. The submission guidelines include information on written works, comics, visual art and photography, and collaborative pieces. If you have something in your portfolio that does not quite fit into these categories, please feel free to reach out to the email below to query for your work.
Submissions are open year-round, but, as I am currently the only person on staff, I ask that you limit yourself to one submission from any single genre until your submission has been processed. At this time, I am only able to accept works originally in or translated to English. Please format each written work in William Shunn’s Modern Manuscript Format. Information on how to do this may be found here.
Submissions are open year round, but the quarterly issue your piece appears in, if accepted, depends on when you submit it. Please see the chart representing Submission Periods below:
Spring: January 1st to March 31st
Summer: April 1st to June 30th
Fall: July 1st to September 30th
Winter: October 1st to December 31st
Just a Cuppa does allow simultaneous submissions so long as this information is included in your cover letter. You must also immediately withdraw your submission upon its acceptance elsewhere.
By submitting, Contributors grant Just a Cuppa first publication rights (with non-exclusive reprint rights retained by the author)
Submission Guidelines:
- Creative Writing Pieces up to 3,500 words– Please format in William Shunn’s Modern Manuscript Format and export as .PDF
- Up to 5 Poems, no more than 100 lines each
- Uo to 3 Comics, each no more than 20 panels– Please number and export each panel as .JPEG or .PNG
- Visual Art and Photography– Please export as .JPEG or .PNG
- Collaborative Pieces Welcome– Please include in the cover letter the names and individual bios for each collaborator
- #SipAndWrite Contest, Flash Fiction under 500 words– Please format in William Shunn’s Traditional Manuscript Format and export as .PDF
In your submission email please include:
- The date your submission was sent and its category in the subject line
- A short cover letter
- A short bio (up to 100 words)
Below you may find an example cover letter and bio.
Dear [Editor/s],
I hope you consider the poem, Love Through Plums, I have attached. This is a poem looking into the intricacies of how a mother and father treat their child differently in their acts of love. The metaphor of plums is presented with the father eating a plum and a mother offering a plum to her child.
Bio: Bree Stock is an undergraduate student pursuing a major in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. Following her studies, Bree hopes to open a a cafe and sign her first book deal. Bree is an active member of the sorority Phi Sigma Sigma and her university’s Creative Writing Club. She spends much of her free-time reading, writing, drawing, baking, and searching for the perfect cup of tea to enjoy while doing these things.
Thank you for your consideration.
Have a lovely day,
Bree Stock
Just a Cuppa 