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how to submit your work
Mail all submissions to: hogliterary@gmail.com
We accept work in four categories: flash fiction, poetry, short fiction, and crit & essays. We don’t adhere to a strict definition of nature and landscape writing, and we’re not confined to the rural.
The Hog publishes on an annual basis and accepts submissions year-round, with responses sent in November. Check @hogliterary on Twitter for up-to-date details. We accept simultaneous submissions, but require that if work is accepted elsewhere you notify us immediately. We ask that you note we are unable to pay contributors at this time.
All submissions must include the category that it is intended for in block capitals in the subject line of the email. They must be presented in a legible size 10-14 font, either as part of the email or as a separate attachment, and we ask that all contributors provide a 50-word biography in the third person alongside their submission.
POETRy
1-1000 words.
We will accept up to three unique poems in one email totalling no more than 100 lines across the three. We discourage rhyming poetry but dare you to prove us wrong.
flash fiction
short fiction
401—3,000 words.
We accept short fiction on any landscape or nature theme up to the limit of two thousand words, including short stories, studies, and excerpts. Submit one piece of short fiction per email.
crit and essays
c. 1,200— 2,000 words.
We’re always on the lookout for memoir, essay and literary crit about landscape, travel and nature. Submit one piece per email, or pitch at hogliterary@gmail.com.
1—400 words.
We accept flash fiction on any relevant landscape or nature theme up to the limit of four hundred words— and we’re impressed when it’s shorter, too. Submit one piece of flash fiction per email.
what we like (and what we don’t F with)
We are looking for bold, new expressions of landscape and nature. This is a place for land-ghosts and the speculative, folk fiction and ancestor-worship; digging or looking from above. We welcome writing on paracosm and the imagined, as well as real-world vistas.
Hog is open to excerpts from unpublished novels and stories provided that they fall within the allocated word limits and that editorial staff is notified upon future and prospective publication. We encourage writers who do not have a previous publication career or platform as well as those who have.
We don’t want to see nationalist writing.
We don’t want to see anything generated or honed by AI.