The Phoenix
The Phoenix literary journal is an annual print journal that craves memorable, evocative work.
Created in 1958 in the heart of Western North Carolina with a long tradition of publishing fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, artwork, and photography.
Sponsored by both Pfeiffer University and the Piedmont Institute of Music, Communication, and Art, The Phoenix also holds a yearly Emerging Writers Contest.
The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre. Please see below for specific genre guidelines for details.
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Our staff accepts compositions that do not easily confine themselves to genre conventions. Our hybrid editors seek literary pieces that fill their own novel ambitions comfortably and with an intentional grace.
Guidelines:
- Make sure to include the title of your piece with every submission
- Unpublished work only
- We do accept simultaneous submissions, though if your work is submitted elsewhere please add a note to your submission to inform us.
- By submitting, you agree to granting The Phoenix first run publication rights upon acceptance. You may withdraw your submission at any time prior to its acceptance.
Blind Submissions: Out of fairness to all writers, The Phoenix requires that your name and contact information not be placed on any of the uploaded files of your submissions.
The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre.
Rights: The Phoenix acquires first run print and digital publication rights. Rights revert back to writers upon publication.
By submitting, you agree to have your email added to our e-newsletter list.
Questions
If you have any questions for our editors please do email us at: thephoenix@pfeiffer.edu
Please also check out our website for archived material and other information: http://www.pfeiffer-phoenix.com
We look for art and photography that speaks to its viewer and shuns cliches.
Guidelines:
- Maximum of 5 submissions
- Unpublished work only
- Include a short (<150 word) bio in your cover letter
- We do accept simultaneous submissions, though if your work is submitted elsewhere please add a note to your submission to inform us.
- By submitting, you agree to granting The Phoenix first run publication rights upon acceptance. You may withdraw your submission at any time prior to its acceptance.
Blind Submissions: Out of fairness to all writers, The Phoenix requires that your name and contact information not be placed on any of the uploaded files of your submissions.
The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre.
Rights: The Phoenix acquires first-time digital publication rights. Rights revert back to writers upon publication.
By submitting, you agree to have your email added to our e-newsletter list.
Questions
If you have any questions for our editors please do email us at: thephoenix@pfeiffer.edu
Please also check out our website for archived material and other information: http://www.pfeiffer-phoenix.com
Our editors are seeking the artfulness of truth and the human condition. Creative Non-Fiction editors do not shy from essays, memoir, or short stories that bring the reader to an inevitable truth of the individual, of the art form, and of the world.
Guidelines:
- Make sure to include the title of your piece with every submission
- Prose: 5,000 words or less
- Unpublished work only
- We do accept simultaneous submissions, though if your work is submitted elsewhere please add a note to your submission to inform us.
- By submitting, you agree to granting The Phoenix first run publication rights upon acceptance. You may withdraw your submission at any time prior to its acceptance.
Blind Submissions: Out of fairness to all writers, The Phoenix requires that your name and contact information not be placed on any of the uploaded files of your submissions.
The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre.
Rights: The Phoenix acquires first run print and digital publication rights. Rights revert back to writers upon publication.
By submitting, you agree to have your email added to our e-newsletter list.
Questions
If you have any questions for our editors please do email us at: thephoenix@pfeiffer.edu
Please also check out our website for archived material and other information: http://www.pfeiffer-phoenix.com
Our editors seek poetry that uses robust language, a visceral and all-consuming voice, and themes that do not shy from the grotesque, controversial, and thought-provoking
Guidelines:
- Make sure to include the title of your piece with every submission
- Please submit each work as its own submission
- Unpublished work only
- We do accept simultaneous submissions, though if one of your poems is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw the submission.
- By submitting, you agree to granting The Phoenix first run publication rights upon acceptance. You may withdraw your submission at any time prior to its acceptance.
Blind Submissions: Out of fairness to all writers, The Phoenix requires that your name and contact information not be placed on any of the uploaded files of your submissions. The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre.
Rights: The Phoenix acquires first-run print and digital publication rights. Rights revert back to writers upon publication.
By submitting, you agree to have your email added to our e-newsletter list. Questions If you have any questions for our editors please do email us at: thephoenix@pfeiffer.edu
Please also check out our website for archived material and other information: http://www.pfeiffer-phoenix.com
Our editors seek fiction prose that pushes the bounds of the art form by using a powerful voice, ambitious themes, and distinct language. Fiction editors seek work that transforms thought into profound understandings.
Guidelines:
- Make sure to include the title of your piece with every submission
- Prose: 5,000 words or less
- Unpublished work only
- We do accept simultaneous submissions, though if your work is submitted elsewhere please add a note to your submission to inform us.
- By submitting, you agree to granting The Phoenix first run publication rights upon acceptance. You may withdraw your submission at any time prior to its acceptance.
Blind Submissions: Out of fairness to all writers, The Phoenix requires that your name and contact information not be placed on any of the uploaded files of your submissions.
The Phoenix gladly allows for you to submit your work to more than one genre.
Rights: The Phoenix acquires first run print and digital publication rights. Rights revert back to writers upon publication.
By submitting, you agree to have your email added to our e-newsletter list.
Questions
If you have any questions for our editors please do email us at: thephoenix@pfeiffer.edu
Please also check out our website for archived material and other information: http://www.pfeiffer-phoenix.com