Welcome to Quartz Literary
writing that reflects experiences and emotions of life
Read our Flash Friday piece for January
Submit your own flash fiction to be featured for February!
Knot by Maura Faulise
On the day of the Murano wedding my mother is in her bedroom beside mine. The walls are thin. I hear things. She’s just out of the shower and wrapped in a light blue bed sheet. She never uses a bath towel.
About us
Hello and thank you for considering our journal,
Quartz Literary seeks fiction and poetry that reflects and fractures. We want to see cracked versions of ourselves. Give us sharpness, but also beauty. Make us feel seen and allow us to discover something new about ourselves. Ultimately, we are looking for work that reflects the experiences, emotions, and details of life, but also subverts them sometimes. We want emotive authenticity and interesting, complex characters.
We mostly read literary fiction, but are also open to magical realism, surrealism, experimental, and literary works with mild genre elements (ex. The Martian, Interstellar, Such Small Hands, Baby Teeth, etc.) Also, we are a project of the online journal Silver Rose Magazine.
We look forward to reading your work!
Best,
Quinn from Quartz Literary
We accept submissions Through Submittable
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Standard Fiction and Poetry
We accept fiction and poetry year-round and publish two print issues annually in May and November. Accepted writers will receive one free contributor copy and a $30 contributor payment.
Contests
We have a series a contests throughout the year for novel excerpts, short stories, poetry, and flash. Most of our contests have a reward of $200-300. Check out our Submittable to see which contests are available right now.
Visual Art
We accept visual art submissions year-round. We use selected visual art for the cover of our print issues. We pay one free contributor copy and $30 to accepted artists.
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