Submission Guidelines

What We Want:

We are looking for fiction, essays, and poetry that reflect the spirit of adventure, the exploration of the soul, the energies of imagination, and the experience of Big Fun. Music, travel, sex, humor, love, loss, art, spirituality, childhood/coming of age, baseball, and dreams -- these are a few of our favorite things -- but most of all we want to read about the things you are passionate about. Genre writing is not encouraged (no sci-fi, erotica, horror, romance, though elements of those may naturally be included).

Fiction and essays should be less than 5000 words; poetry less than 200 lines.

A few examples of writing online that we admire:

Losing It At Club Med and other Wanderlust tales

Carmen Who Lives at the Lake

April in Paris

Monterey: Exile's Return

Faith in the Baby

The Burning Man Experience

Now That I'm Done

How To Submit

Send your submission in the body of an email or attached as a Word document, and include your name, mailing address, email address and a short bio. Both new and previously published works are welcome.

Submissions of art work are also welcome. Send 1 - 2 pieces attached in .jpg or .gif format, or send a link to posted work elsewhere.

All submissions should be emailed to editor@slowtrains.com

Rights

We request one time electronic rights, with optional archiving. We expect Slow Trains to be available in occasional print issues in the near future, and any rights requested for that will be negotiated at that point in time.