Winter & Summer Issues

We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and text-based visuals. We especially want to see your experimental and hybrid concoctions. Hopefully, you’ve familiarized yourself with the journal and checked in about what experimentation means to us. Beyond that, we look for work that feels urgent and arresting, precise and nuanced. If you’re submitting under a prose category, keep in mind that we prefer experimentation which retains a strong narrative aspect. Only one submission per genre, per issue, please.

PROSE submissions should be limited to 4,000 words for a single piece or up to three flash pieces under 1,000 words each.

POETRY submissions should be no longer than 4 pages, with singular poems on their own page.

We publish TRANSLATIONS primarily by solicitation, though you may query us to discuss a proposal. We also accept review/interview submissions for TIMBER Talks.

We strongly encourage submissions by individuals from groups or backgrounds historically marginalized and/or underrepresented in TIMBER. We want to see your work! 

Please note that University of Colorado-Boulder students are ineligible for publication in our regular issues for prose, poetry, and translation from the time they enroll at the university until three years after having left the university.

Reading Periods

• Submit to our regular Winter Issue from October 1st until December 1st.

• Submit to our regular Summer Issue from March 1st until May 1st.

Ready to Submit?

We only accept work via our submission manager. 

All submissions are free.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted and encouraged, although please withdraw promptly via Submittable if your work is accepted elsewhere.

We do our best to respond within three months past the submission period deadline. If you haven’t heard back from us by then, please get in touch at 

timberjournal @ gmail . com