Submit Your Work

We publish fiction, poetry, plays, nonfiction, and visual media online and in print. We offer a contest in poetry and fiction, The River Styx Prize, annually.

Each print edition of River Styx is constructed around a theme. We try to keep descriptions as open-ended as possible, and we are certainly open to unexpected interpretations. That said, the works most likely to be selected are those that in some way attempt to address the prompt.

The online editions are intended for general submission and do not require the work to address a theme.

For our submission guidelines for each genre, payment information, and rights, review our Submissions Guidelines.

Reading periods run until we have accepted the right amount of work to complete the issue. If the portal is open on our Submittable page, then we are still accepting work.

To enter our annual contest, The River Styx Prize, please review the entry guidelines.