Essay/Memoir/Creative Nonfiction

Equinox and Renewal

Send your prose submissions as inspired or interpreted by the theme of the issue, in a single Word or PDF document. 

We prefer these be no more than 2,500 words, although longer work may be considered. 

Yanaguana recognizes that AI permeates our culture. We prefer to publish authentic works and ask that you please disclose any use of Artificial Intelligence in your work and in which ways AI may have contributed to your work. If your work is found to be AI assisted and not disclosed, your work will not be published. 

We publish Spring/Summer and a Fall/Winter issues. Submissions for a particular issue must be uploaded to Submittable by: January 15th or July 15th. If your submission falls past these dates it will be considered for the following issues. 

Submission Deadlines 

We publish a Spring/Summer and a Fall/Winter issue. Submissions for a particular issue must be uploaded in Submittable by January 15 for Spring/Summer and July 15 for Fall/Winter. Submissions outside these dates will be considered for a subsequent issue. We will respond to all submissions regarding our decision to accept. 

Rights

Yanaguana will notify you if your submission is accepted. If we publish your work we ask that you give us first North American Serial Rights and electronic media rights to your work, and we ask that Yanaguana be acknowledged if the work is subsequently published in book format or reprinted in another venue. All rights revert back to author after publication.

Artists whose work is accepted will be celebrated through Yanaguana's social media, but there will be no further remuneration, unless negotiated separately. We are delighted and honored if you also tag Yanaguana in your social media posts upon publication. 

***Yanaguana is aware of our speech acts and will not consider work that makes use of hate speech in unwise ways such as racism, Xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, Transphobia, ableism, or ageism. At our own discretion we will not publish gratuitous use of obscenities, sex, or violence. We are committed to inclusivity, honoring diverse voices and perspectives --Punto!