• Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee-based writers are all welcome to submit.
• Send up to five of your best poems. Separate poems by titles or page breaks.
• Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, etc., should not exceed 1500 words (or no more than 2 pages) per submission.
• You will be asked to provide your name, email address, current mailing address, and bio (third-person, 50 words max) in the submission form for writers.
• Simultaneous submissions are discouraged.
• Sorry, no translations or work previously published digitally or in print.

• Educators, administrators, and other representatives of schools in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee are welcome to submit.

• Upload a single Google or Word document containing all student works. Include student names and bios and separate each work with titles or page breaks.

• Flash Fiction, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, and longer-form genres should not exceed 1,500 words (or 2 pages).

• Include the name of your school, email address, and genre information that represents the submission as a whole.

We will not tolerate any work that promotes harmful stereotypes and perspectives including: racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, xenophobia, antisemitism, ableism.

We also kindly request that you refrain from sending us any sexually explicit pieces, or works highlighting extreme violence.

Lucky Jefferson and The Book Worm Bookstore are women and people-of-color-led and welcome all to share their words with us.

Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and historically underrepresented writers are encouraged to submit as we continue to prioritize these communities in our ongoing work.

We ask for exclusive first worldwide print and electronic rights for up to three months from the date of publication and non-exclusive rights to include published works in our archive indefinitely.

Basically, we’d like to be the first to publish your submission and after three months, you’re free to redistribute it how you’d like. Nevertheless, it’ll be a part of our collection forever.

Accepted writers and schools: will receive access to the collection and will be eligible for social media press.

If your work is forthcoming in a manuscript, or published somewhere else (online or print) after publication in Lucky Jefferson, you agree to give credit to your family at Lucky Jefferson and The Book Worm Bookstore.

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If your work does not find a home in this special publication, we ask that you wait 3 months before submitting new work to us. Spam submissions will not be tolerated.