Copytext Magazine is open to submissions for our inaugural issue!

Copytext is a new, independent literary magazine dedicated to celebrating the artistic process by publishing creative works in the context of revision. We want to preserve and display writing and art-making as an ongoing practice, creating a space for many genres and disciplines to share their artistic and archival evolutions.

We are reading for Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction from August 8 to October 31. We aim to respond to all submissions by the end of November and publish in Winter 2025. We welcome submissions from both new and established writers, including unpublished and previously published work.

Copytext will publish two drafts and the final version of a writer’s work, so our submission process is a bit more extensive than other literary publications. We have written detailed Guidelines for your collaboration. Please follow them carefully as you prepare your submission. You can download our Submission Template and read some examples below to get a sense of what we’re looking for and the format we will use.

Thank you for considering Copytext as a home for your work. We can’t wait to read your writing and witness your process!

—The Editors

Example Poetry Publication

Marianne Moore’s “A Graveyard”