Submit to Pollux Journal

Submissions are currently CLOSED. Please check our social media for updates on Issue 5.

As a literary journal dedicated to multilinguality, Pollux seeks to be home both to works that are multilingual themselves (written in two or more languages, including English) or centered around multilinguality (work in English that is about being or learning to become multilingual). We want to hear about your fluency in another language or lack thereof; the journey to reach multilinguality or the way it was always part of your life; everything in between and beyond.

All submissions should be sent through the Google Forms linked below; we will not be taking submissions through any other platform, including email.

We welcome simultaneous submissions, but please let us know as soon as possible if a piece is accepted elsewhere. We do not review work that has already been published in other literary magazines, journals, etc., but we would love to consider art and writing that has appeared in a personal blog or social media.

We ask for first electronic rights and nonexclusive archival rights to publish your work. Following publication, all rights revert to the author. We ask that you credit us as the place your work first appeared, should you choose to publish it again.

Submitting to Pollux Journal is free and always will be. At this time, however, we are not able to pay contributors for the upcoming issue. If you are interested in helping us return to a paying market, please see the section below for details on donating through Venmo or PayPal.

Please feel free to contact polluxjournal@gmail.com with questions or to inquire about the status of your submission, if it has been more than two months since we last received your work. Once we have responded to your submission, we ask that you wait until at least the next submission period to submit again. If you have to withdraw your work, feel free to send us new work within the same submission period.

We hope that this is evident without explicit clarification, but we do not tolerate plagiarism or any form of bigotry. Please contact us if you believe that anything in our archives must undergo review.

See this interview with Six Questions For for more details on the types of submissions we’d like to receive.

Literary Submissions

Pollux is open to submissions from all genres, including but not limited to poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, concrete poetry, and hybrid genre. You may submit from multiple genres at once. Please send us no more than 15 pages (think Times New Roman 12 pt. double-spaced, though you do not have to submit in that font) or 5 pieces, whichever comes first, all in a single file. PDF format is encouraged for works with special formatting, and Word format is encouraged if any of your pieces are longer than a page. 

You are not required but very strongly encouraged to send us a translation, glossary, or anything else that would help our editors form a nuanced understanding of your work, either as footnotes or a separate file. We may not have anyone on staff who is familiar with the non-English language(s) you are working with, but we do not want this to act as a barrier to submission. Glossaries will only be published alongside your work if you so choose.

If you donate to us, we will provide you individualized feedback along with your response. We ask that you donate a minimum of 3 USD for up to 5 pages of work, and 0.50 USD for each page after that, until you reach 7 USD. (If you would like to donate more to us, though, we are always open to it! You will be helping us maintain our website and pay our contributors.) Please Venmo us at @polluxjournal or donate through paypal.me/ariaxmiao and attach a screenshot with your submission.

Please note that Pollux does not publish translations or side-by-sides of the same work in different languages. We want to read writing that is actively in conversation with language, whatever that means to you!

Non-Literature Submissions

We are open to non-literature submissions (visual art, music, film, etc.—surprise us!) that concern themselves with multilinguality. Please send us no more than 3 pieces of work, regardless of genre. Before submitting, we ask that you write an artist’s statement explaining how multilinguality appears in your work.