PFN – Lunch Ticket Seeking Submission for Issue 28

Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting to Lunch Ticket. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will not be considered.

Poetry Submission Guidelines: 

• Please submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).
• If your work has been published in Lunch Ticket, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.
• All submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title, submission title, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter, and not in any attached files or the submission title.
• We allow simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a simultaneous submission, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere, you must notify us immediately.
• We do not accept previously published work (this includes work published in personal blogs or social media).
• We do not accept AI-generated work.
• Submitters must be 18 years of age or older.
• All submitters are added to our bi-monthly newsletter email subscriber list.

We look forward to sampling your work!

Poetry: 

• Submit up to 3 poems per cycle. Submit all poems in the same document.
• We recognize that poetry often calls for its own particular formatting. When in doubt, use 12-pt Times New Roman font.

Fiction:

• All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
• Submissions should not exceed 3,500 words (source text not included in the word count).
• If your piece is 750 words and under, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.

Flash Prose:

• All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
• Submit one flash piece per cycle. We only accept prose that is 750 words or less. (If your piece is 751 to 3,500 words, please submit it to Creative Nonfiction or Fiction.)

Creative Nonfiction:

• All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
• Submissions should not exceed 3,500 words (source text not included in the word count).
• If your piece is 750 words and under, please submit it to the Flash Prose category.