Potential submitters may find the following resources helpful: our Submission Tips for New Writers, our interview with Duotrope, and our editorials on titles, etiquette, and syntax. Conte is also on Facebook. 
 

 Current Deadline

Submissions for Conte 7.2 are now closed. 

Our sixteenth issue will be published on January 20, 2012. 

The reading period for Conte 8.1, our Summer 2012 issue, is March 1 – July 1.

Submission Guidelines

Conte publishes narrative writing of the highest quality on a biannual basis.  Writing that displays some degree of familiarity with our journal is likely to attract our attention, so make sure your work has a narrative bent. 

In the interest of keeping Conte as fresh and relevant as possible, we will decline to consider previously published work as well as links to blogs and personal websites. 

We gladly accept simultaneous submissions, however, provided you state clearly in your cover letter that your work is under consideration elsewhere, and notify us immediately if it is accepted by another publication.  Poetry queries should be directed to poetry@conteonline.net, whereas questions or requests concerning creative fiction and nonfiction can be sent to prose@conteonline.net.  

Feel free to mention previous publications in your cover letter (though an enumerated list of credits is not necessary), and to share how you heard about Conte.  We read in the fall and spring of each year, and do our best to respond within three months. 

We will discard unread all postal submissions, and as of September 2011, we will also discard all email submissions unread now that we are proud users of Submittable. 

Poetry: Submit up to three poems, each of 100 lines or less.  A strong sense of voice, the poetic line, and the aural qualities of language are the easiest ways to grab our attention.  We are strongly averse to rhyme schemes.

Prose: Submit one piece up to 8,000 words in length.  Please query us with an excerpt before submitting longer pieces. We publish short stories, chapter-length excerpts from novels and novel manuscripts, and pieces of creative nonfiction.  We do not consider academic essays, but are open to travel writing, memoirs, and engaging journalism.

Copyright Policy

All authors published by Conte retain full and complete control over their works; we assert only the right to keep a copy of your published piece indefinitely within our issue archives. Although we make no claim other than the above, having a piece appear in Conte (or any online journal) will likely be viewed as a "first use" or relinquishing of "first electronic rights" by other publications, both print-based and online.