Submitting to Multiplicity Magazine
Multiplicity Magazine, the literary journal of the MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Bay Path University, is published annually in late spring. Our issues are themed, and calls for submissions are generally released in late fall. Leading up to each magazine release, we call for submissions to Quick Work, where we seek micro-flash nonfiction of 100 words or fewer.
Multiplicity Magazine celebrates the variety and range of the human experience in contemporary literature. We publish sparkling and insightful creative nonfiction, poetry, and photography, and we are especially interested in work by writers who live or have lived and worked outside the literary mainstream. Women. People of color. Immigrants and international writers. Veterans. Activists. Writers from LGBTQ communities. Crisis workers. Working-class writers. Anyone who has a story that needs to be heard.
Submit to Multiplicity Magazine
Now inviting submissions for our Spring/Summer 2025 issue on the theme:
Refuge
We leave behind our problems, our jobs, our families, our relationships, our homes, and even our countries, in search of promise, comfort and respite. For the 2025 spring-summer issue of Multiplicity, we want to know the how, the where, the who, and the why of seeking sanctuary. In prose, poetry, or photography, show us a path—well-trodden or not yet blazed, real or imagined, achieved or only hoped for—to a place (or state) of refuge.
We accept essays, profiles, and narrative nonfiction up to 3,000 words, poetry (up to three poems per submitter), and original photography (up to five photographs) inspired or connected to our theme. For accepted work, we pay $45 for prose, $15 per poem, and $15 per photograph.
- Submission Dates: November 26, 2024–January 20, 2025
- Anticipated publication: June 2025
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Our literary magazine first-round review process is blind. Please do not include your name or other personally identifying information on any of the pages of your submission or in the file name of the document you submit. Your cover letter and bio will be reviewed if your work enters our final round of review.
Prose submissions should be double-spaced, formatted in Times New Roman or a similar serif font, 12 pt., with one-inch margins all around. Please paginate and include the title of the work on each page. All work should be carefully proofread before it is submitted.
Poetry submissions may include up to three poems per issue; stanzas should be single spaced and there should be no more than one poem per page.
Photographs (up to five) should be original, royalty-free, and thematically relevant. Please submit in a format that can be displayed on a Web page and opened in Photoshop. JPG and PNG are preferred. Submitted images should not include vectors or layers. You may include captions, or a brief narrative to illuminate the thematic content.
We will not knowingly publish submissions that are slanderous, libelous, racist, sexist, ageist, or otherwise intentionally discriminatory or offensive. All works must be original and must not be subject to copyright restrictions. For each issue, the journal publishes one submission per selected author/artist. Once our final review is complete, our Editorial Board will notify each submitter of the status of their work.
Please see our Usage Rights page for information about the rights we request upon publication.