Submissions to The Core Review and The Juice Blog are always free, although we encourage you to support us by purchasing our titles, buying our merchandise, or making a financial contribution. Submissions to The Slice Contest are $20. Contributions do not impact publication decisions.
We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
The Core Review and The Juice Blog requests first serial rights, and all rights revert back to the author upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their work published in The Core Review and The Juice Blog. If the work is later republished, we request that you note its initial publication in The Core Review or The Juice Blog. We also request the right, with author permission, to use your work for promotional purposes. We ask that authors who are accepted with us wait 2 years before submitting work again.
Essay collection submissions should be 150-250 pages of creative nonfiction essays, double spaced, in a 12 point font. Collections should include a total of at least five essays. Please submit your work as a .pdf, .doc, or .docx file. We are opening to reading a range of experimental, literary work; for example, micro-nonfiction, vignettes, and traditional creative non-fiction essays are all welcome.
Please include a title page with your submission and indicate where an essay begins with its title. Please paginate your manuscript. Each essay should begin on a new page.
The contest winner will receive an award of $500, 10 author copies, and 25% profits on book sales. We reserve the right to not name a winner for any given contest cycle.
UPDATE: We have reached our fee waiver cap for this cycle.
We are able to offer a limited number of fee waivers. Please email forkapplepress@gmail.com to request one if needed, and we will provide a waiver if we have not yet reached our cap.
The Juice Blog accepts a variety of craft-oriented writing, including but not limited to craft essays, literacy narratives, book reviews, interviews, scholarly essays on literature, and other explorations of the writing process. If appropriate, you may include externals links, images, or video clips which compliment the writing, however usage of them in the final blog post is not guaranteed.
Do not submit poetry, creative nonfiction (i.e. memoir or essays not related to writing) or fiction, as it will not be considered for publication.
Blog post submissions should be no more than 2,000 words, double-spaced, and in a 12-point font. Please include a title at the top of your submission and page numbers on each page. Please submit your work as a .doc or .docx file.
We accept simultaneous submissions. If your piece is accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible.
The Juice Blog requests first serial rights, and all rights revert back to the author upon publication. Authors retain copyright to their work published in The Juice Blog. If the work is later republished, we request that you note its initial publication in The Juice Blog. We also request the right, with author permission, to use your work for promotional purposes. We ask that authors who are accepted with us wait 2 years before submitting work again.
Submissions open July 1 -- September 30; January 1 - March 31
Always free to submit.
Visual Narrative submissions are recommended to be a maximum of 10-12 pages. Submit to us your hybrid text and visual work. We welcome a range of experimentation, media, and genre-blurring in the work. Select examples include collage, comics, photo essays, and multimedia projects, among others. Published pieces will appear in color online and in black and white in print.