Submission Guidelines

Asterales: A Journal of Arts and Letters is a quarterly journal publishing five poems, one piece of fiction, one CNF/essay, and accompanying visual art. Just as plants in the asterales family are many-petaled, we are interested in a wide range of styles. We like writing and visual art that has an authentic perspective and makes us think about the world in new ways. 

Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please notify us by email if the work is accepted elsewhere so we can congratulate you! All material must be original and cannot have appeared in another publication. For poetry and prose, this includes social media and personal blogs.

Asterales is not a paying market, but we will promote your work with wild abandon.

We do not accept any writing or artwork created with AI software because our publication is an outlet for human creativity. If your work does engage with AI by purposefully quoting lines generated by AI software, as with an allusion to another text or publication, you must cite your sources.

Submissions for our April 2025 issue will be open from February 1-March 15, 2025.
All pieces must be submitted via this Google form.

Poetry: Please send us one to three of your poems.

Prose: Please send a single work up to 7500 words. It can be fiction, creative non-fiction, or something in between.

Visual Art: Please send us three to five images, which may include photographs as well as images of three-dimensional pieces or works that are created in other mediums (e.g., watercolor, oils, mixed media, collage, etc.). Please submit as individual jpgs of at least 300 dpi.

It should go without saying, but we will say it: work that is abusive or hateful in its spirit or language is not welcome here.

Please submit only one entry per genre, once per submission period. 

We are a staff of two, and we will do our best to respond to every submission within 75 days. If you need to withdraw all/part of your submission or if you have not received a response within this time period, please send us an email at asteralesjournal@gmail.com.