Submissions

The Copper Nickel accepts submissions of unpublished short fiction, poetry, essays, prose poems, and other written experiments. We are open to anything, but we highly recommend reading an issue of Copper Nickel before submitting.

We are now accepting unsolicited submissions through our Submission Manager system ONLY.

  • Please limit submissions to five poems or a single piece of prose.
  • Submissions will not be accepted by snail mail or by email.
  • And, please, please, please, indicate if yours is a simultaneous submission. We do consider simultaneous submissions, but we would be grateful for at least 6 weeks to make a proper review.
  • We are not accepting submissions of visual art at this time.

We are not accepting submissions between May 15 and July 31, 2010. The submissions manager will re-open on August 1.

We are currently fielding an average of 3,000 - 4,000 poems a year and over 1,000 pieces of prose. We are able, at present, to publish less than 3% of the work we receive.




The Fine Print

Copper Nickel requests first North American Serial Rights for print publication, electronic serial rights for online publications, and permission to submit published work for syndication in appropriate venues or to nominate published work for appropriate prizes and awards (such as the Pushcart Prize), all of which is negotiated in a contract following acceptance of a work. All other rights remain with or revert to the author upon publication.

Copper Nickel pays contributors in copies and in subscriptions and works to draw new readers to contributors' work, both within our pages and without. We are unable to offer financial remuneration beyond this at this point.

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News

Contest Finalists Announced
After more than a month of reading and re-reading and debating and comparing, we now have a list of finalists for our fiction and our poetry contests. E-mails are going out to all who entered. To protect the integrity of the process, we are announcing only the titles of the…
Contest now closed
Thanks to all who entered our first contest. We are no longer accepting entries and turn to the difficult task of selecting finalists. We will notify entrants about the finalists by the end of June and forward those to the final judges for selection. Winners will be announced by the…
Contest Update
Because Monday, May 31, is a postal holiday, we will accept entries through our online system through 11:59pm on Tuesday, June 1, and an entry with associated entry fee postmarked by June 2.…
Dear Author
Yes, you submitted work before we switched to our online submission manager system. We read it---actually four times, which is what we do with every submission---and we e-mailed our response. We're sorry you didn't receive our response. Sometimes this happens. Many ISPs have recently adopted spam-blocking measures that, for whatever…
Contest Entry Deadline Extended
We've opted to extend our contest entry deadline to May 31st. We're still eager to see your work. Full details here: http://www.copper-nickel.org/contest/…

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