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Please read these guidelines thoroughly before submitting to Lunch Ticket. Submissions that do not adhere to our guidelines will not be considered.
Amuse-Bouche for Lunch Ticket
Amuse-Bouche publishes all genres: creative nonfiction, fiction, flash prose, poetry, literary translation*, YA (13+), and visual art. We accept multilingual submissions in all genres. As well, we review visual art submissions year round. Please submit all art to the visual art genre, and refer to the visual art submission guidelines for more information.
Pieces selected for Amuse-Bouche are featured for two weeks and promoted through our social media networks with the same enthusiasm as our regularly published issues. After the showcase, Amuse-Bouche features remain on Lunch Ticket.
Amuse-Bouche Guidelines:
- Please submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).
- If your work has been published in Lunch Ticket, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.
- All submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title, submission title, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter, and not in any attached files or the submission title.
- All prose must be double-spaced in 12-pt Times New Roman font.
- Submissions should not exceed 3,500 words (source text not included in the word count).
- If your piece is 750 words and under, please choose the Flash Prose category when you indicate the genre of your submission below.
- Submit up to 3 poems per submission reading period. Submit all poems in the same document.
- We recognize that poetry often calls for its own particular formatting. When in doubt, use 12-pt Times New Roman font.
- We allow simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter that this is a simultaneous submission, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere, you must notify us immediately.
- We do not accept previously published work (this includes work published in personal blogs or social media).
- We do not accept AI-generated work.
- Submitters must be 18 years of age or older.
- All submitters are added to our bi-monthly newsletter email subscriber list.
We look forward to sampling your work!
*For literary translation, please use these additional guidelines:
- Please include names and bios for the original author and translator and a statement about your translation process (translator’s statement) in your cover letter.
- Include the original work along with your translation, preferably in editable form (not a scan). The original work is published along with accepted translations.
- If your submission is a self-translation or re-translation, please elaborate in your cover letter.
- Indicate if your work is a multilingual submission (instead of a translation).