South 85, the Converse MFA Program’s Official Journal, Is Eager to Read Your Work!

South 85 Journal is accepting general submissions from January 15, 2025, to March 10, 2025, for its Spring/Summer issue through Submittable: South 85 Submissions Page. Additional reading periods will be announced for 2025.

THEME ISSUE: BORDERS | BOUNDARIES | LINES

• First in line? Follow the line? Toe the line? Line up? Do a line? Speak your lines? Telephone lines?
• Cross a boundary? Respect a boundary? Set a boundary? The boundary waters? Look at a paper map and see…?
• Slip through the border? Protect the border? Skirt the border? Behave in a borderline fashion? Put that decorative border around your photo of…?
• The possibilities are endless, and we’re eager to see what you come up with!

• Fiction submissions should be between 1000 and 4000ish words. Please include word count in upper corner of first page. For fiction that is fewer than 1000 words, please submit to the flash category.

• Nonfiction submissions should be no longer than 4000ish words. Please include the word count on your submission.

• Poetry submissions should contain no more than 3 poems, up to 6 total pages, one poem per page.

• Please send only one submission per category (Poetry, Fiction, Flash, and Non-Fiction) during each reading period.  You are welcome to submit to multiple categories. We suggest including the title of your work in your file name.

• Submission fee = $3