General Guidelines and Info: 

• Broken Lens Journal publishes new issues quarterly. Submissions are welcome year-round.

• We do not accept work that trades in racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc.

• Please send only one submission at a time per category and wait until you hear back from us before uploading a new submission. Submissions can be made to both categories at the same time. 

• Our response time can be up to 3 months, and we want to have ample time and space for everyone’s voices and visions to be considered, so if you do send multiple submissions, they will be archived unread and will receive no response.

• Please wait until you receive a response before you submit again. We ask that you do not request feedback from the editors.

• If you have published work with Broken Lens Journal during the last year, please wait until next year to submit any new work.

• To make sure you receive our response, set your spam filter to allow emails from brokenlensjournal@gmail.com. 

• For poetry, we consider only unpublished work. Work that has appeared online for any reason, including social media posts, is considered to have been previously published and should not be submitted.

• For photography/visual art, we will consider work that has already been published to social media platforms.

• We are not able to pay for submissions at this time; however, we hope to do so in the future. 

• Broken Lens Journal is open to simultaneous submissions, but let us know immediately if work is accepted elsewhere by emailing us at brokenlensjournal@gmail.com. 

• If you have any difficulty using this form for any reason and need alternative submitting options, please reach out to us for more information at brokenlensjournal@gmail.com. Please include your name and contact information.