Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art will be seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, comics, art, and photography submissions for Volume 19, published in Spring 2025. Our submission period is July 1st, 2024 - October 1, 2024.
Saw Palm is a Florida-themed journal; however we welcome writers and artists from across the country and the globe as long as the work is connected to Florida (via images, people, themes, etc.). We also welcome creative works from Floridians that are not obviously about someplace else. Please check out past issues, available for download as free PDFs.
We accept submissions for Places to Stand, interviews, and reviews year-round.
We do not accept written work that has been previously published either online or in print.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please indicate simultaneous submissions in a brief cover letter and let us know immediately through Submittable if your work has been accepted elsewhere. The cover letter may also include a brief third-person bio of no more than 100 words.
Send only one submission at a time per genre. If you have a pending submission, please wait for a response before submitting again. We make every effort to respond as quickly as possible while giving each submission the time it deserves. Our average response time is 3-5 months. After 6 months, you’re welcome to follow up with the appropriate editor.
All submissions must be made electronically through our online submissions manager. We do not accept email submissions. Please upload text files in .doc or .docx formats only. Art and comics should be uploaded in .jpeg / .jpg format only. Any paper submissions sent via snail mail will be recycled unread.
If you are a USF faculty member or student, please wait five years before submitting to the print journal. In the meantime, you are welcome to submit interviews, reviews, or to our online Places to Stand series!
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's something lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal writing! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.
We're interested in nonfiction that challenges or complicates what it means to be Floridian. We especially want to feature voices that are often underrepresented in the literature of the state. We accept all kinds of nonfiction forms, including but not limited to: memoir, personal essay, travel writing, prose poetry, lyric or hybrid essays, criticism, and journalism. Flash Nonfiction submissions can include up to three pieces, but each should be no longer than 1,000 words.
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's something lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal writing! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.
We're interested in nonfiction that challenges or complicates what it means to be Floridian. We especially want to feature voices that are often underrepresented in the literature of the state. We accept all kinds of nonfiction forms, including but not limited to: memoir, personal essay, travel writing, prose poetry, lyric or hybrid essays, criticism, and journalism under 6,000 words.
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
Our team is looking for work expressing the odd and the tender, rendered on canvas using materials ranging from watercolors, gouache, acrylics, and pen and pencil, to torn bits of maps and magazines. We look forward to your digital interpretations of theme parks, nature, beach ephemera, and so much more. We await your visually and emotionally exciting works of art that draw on both Florida’s and your unique personalities.
We understand that visual art is often published on personal websites but ask that your submissions have not been previously featured in literary magazines.
We accept up to five submissions of art or photography per reading period. Please send files in .jpeg / .jpg format only. You may also include a URL if a portfolio of your work is online.
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's a creature lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal work! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.
Our team is open to any style of comics, including but not limited to everything from four-panel haiku comics, poetic collages, or your asemic dream journal. We want to experience your creativity and sense of Florida, from nuanced to outrageous, and look forward to your submissions.
We welcome comics submissions of up to seven pages, whether in black & white, greyscale, or full color. Submit in .jpeg / .jpg format only. The journal's dimensions are 5" x 7."
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's a creature lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal writing! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.
We accept up to five poems per submission period at a maximum of 10 pages. Please send all poems in one document.
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's a creature lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal writing! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.
Flash fiction submissions can include up to three pieces, each no longer than 1,000 words.
Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art is an annual print journal centering Florida lives, landscapes, and experiences.
In this issue, we're uncovering the hidden crevices of Florida. Maybe there's a creature lurking underneath the swampy floorboards of your house, or a multi-genre piece that can't be said any other way. We want to see your weird, wacky, liminal writing! We're open (but not limited to) work that is speculative, experimental, multimedia, genre-bending, and/or collaborative.
Fiction submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words. We accept flash fiction in our Flash Fiction 2024 submission portal on Submittable.
We are interested in reviews of Florida-related subjects: authors, films, tourist attractions, books, CDs, websites, beaches, parks, toll roads, snack stands, local landmarks—anything! Submissions should be no longer than 6,000 words and, if accepted, will appear on www.sawpalm.org.
Current or recent USF students and faculty are welcome to submit reviews.
We are especially interested in interviews of Florida writers and artists, although we're open to almost any Florida-related subject. Please query us about the interview subject first via email at sawpalmeditors@gmail.com.
Current or recent USF students and faculty are welcome to submit interviews.
Tell us what it's like to stand at a specific place in Florida at a specific time of day in 500 words or less. While we enjoy the unusual, locations should be public and accessible (so not your bathroom!) Please include GPS coordinates. Also consider attaching a photo from/of the location that we may use when promoting your piece on social media. If you'd like us to tag you, send along your Instagram and/or Twitter handles.
Places to Stand appears on sawpalm.org.
Current or recent USF students and faculty are welcome to submit to the Places to Stand series.
Poems submitted as part of the Places to Stand series are welcome but should be justified left and otherwise not have complex formatting and spacing (due to technical limitations in Google Earth).