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Submit to NonBinary Review

The first thing to know is that we’re looking for speculative writing. If you’re not sure what that means, here’s our definition.

NonBinary Review is open for submissions in February, May, August, and November. See our submission page for general information.

We are in the process of changing from Submittable to Duosuma. Until August 2025, some submission categories will have links to both submission managers. After August 2025, all submissions will happen via Duosuma.

We are currently open for the following issues:

Issue #41: Solarpunk (submissions close 7/31/2025)
Visual Art (via Submittable)
Poetry (via Submittable)
Prose (via Submittable)
All genres (via Duosuma)

And here are our future themes, so you can get your submission ready ahead of time!

Issue #42: Erased from history (early submissions open 15 July 2025, regular submissions open 1-31 August 2025)
Issue #43: Carnival (early submissions open 15 October 2025, regular submissions open 1-30 November 2025)
Issue #44: Saying Goodbye to Yesterday (early submissions open 15 January 2026, regular submissions open 1-28 February 2026)
Issue #45: Films (early submissions open 15 April 2026, regular submissions open 1-31 May 2026)
Issue #46: Metamorphosis (early submissions open 15 July 2026, regular submissions open 1-31 August 2026)

Our submission policy is changing. Our submission period is going from five months per issue to one month per issue, and themes will be announced in advance. We are still offering a two-week early submission period to those on our mailing list, so if you want to make sure you get your piece in, scroll down to the bottom of the page and sign up for the mailing list!

Submit to 4 L P H 4 N U M 3 R 1 C

We're looking for speculative poetry and prose that work best when read out loud. Stuff that's unimpressive to the naked eye, but a treat for the naked ear. The kind of works that might fall flat on the page, but come alive with the right reader. Nouns that sing. Verbs that dance. Adjectives whose eyelids flutter. Adverbs that play the bongos while wearing a beret and cat-eye sunglasses. You know what we're saying.

Prose pieces are limited to 1500 words, poetry pieces to 50 lines - both are paid at $15 per accepted piece. 4 L P H 4 N U M 3 R 1 C is no longer a part of NonBinary Review, so all accepted pieces will be published in their own end-of-summer anthology beginning in 2026.

Each 30 minute episode will be made up of multiple pieces, both prose and poetry. Accepted pieces will be read by the buttery-voiced Zoetic Press staff, although we are happy to have our mellifluous authors read their own works, provided that they can produce a recording of the necessary volume (quality we can usually fix, but it's hard to pump up the volume on someone who sounds like their microphone was in another room).

The new 4 L P H 4 N U M 3 R 1 C podcast will drop twice monthly on the 10th and 25th of each month beginning August 2025, but submissions are open NOW! Be the first on your block to get your piece accepted!

Submit to Dear Horace Greeley

Dear Horace Greeley is our advice column for authors, where renowned editor and founder of the New York Tribune Horace Greeley gives advice about writing, submitting, publication, and the writing life, all with warmth, humor, and the perspective that can only be gained by a lifetime of sporting a majestic neck beard.

Become an Editor at Zoetic Press

We are currently looking for editors in several categories. If you would like to work with us, let us know! We are an all-volunteer staff, but what we lack in financial remuneration, we make up for in hilarious workplace banter.

  • Q: When will the issue come out?
    A: NonBinary Review comes out March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1. You can get the ebook from the Zoetic Press store. You can get the Kindle version or paperback from Amazon.

    Heathentide Orphans comes out December 15, and is only available in hardcopy on Amazon.

    Q: Why can’t I screen shot my piece and post it to social media?
    A: There are two reasons. First, because the agreement you digitally signed (or otherwise agreed to) specifically prohibits social media sharing. Second, and more importantly, we don’t charge a reading fee and we pay our authors. We’re not affiliated with a university and get no corporate funding. We completely depend on sales to offset our costs (which, if we’re honest, it doesn’t even come close to doing). If you post your piece on social media, you’ve just eliminated any incentive your friends and family have to actually buy the issue.

    Q: Why is the print version so expensive?
    A: We use Amazon print on demand for our hardcopies because right now, we don’t have enough sales, staff, or space to do traditional printing and fulfillment ourselves. Amazon charges us according to the book’s page count, deducting that amount from the purchase price. Of the remainder, Amazon takes their commission (between 40% and 60%, depending on the market) and we get whatever’s left. If you buy the ebook bundle from our website, we get a little over $4. If you buy the print version from Amazon, we get less than $3. If we made it any cheaper, we’d lose money on every copy.

    Q: When will my 4LPH4NUM3R1C be posted? Where can I find it?
    A: You should have received an email telling you the post date of your piece. Once it’s live, you can find it on our 4LPH4NUM3R1C page.

    Q: When/where will my interview be posted?
    A: Interviews are posted on the issue’s author page, under your author bio. Normally, we wait until we get half a dozen or so and then post them all at once, although there are times (like right around publication time) when other tasks take precedence. Once your interview is posted, it’ll always be there, so please be patient.

    Q: Do I have to have Paypal or Venmo to get paid?
    A: You do. See above, about how one person does most of the work here - that work includes payments. Signing up for more payment processing services/apps involves more time and, often, expense. Zoetic Press doesn’t make a penny from NonBinary Review (in fact, we’ve been in the red for every issue we’ve ever published), so we need to keep our expenses (in both time and money) to a minimum.

    Q: When will I receive payment?
    A: We process payments within ten days of each issue’s publication. If you have not received payment by the 15th, by all means let us know. If we tried to process your payment and couldn’t (Paypal and Venmo can be temperamental, especially for accounts outside the United States), we are either trying to resolve the issue on our end, or we’ve already emailed you. Check your spam folder.

    Q: Why does the print version of my poem look different than the ebook version?
    A: Pretty much everyone uses some version of a word processor whose default page is a letter-sized piece of paper (8.5”x11”). Our print books are slightly less than half that size (5.5” x 8.5” for NonBinary Review, 5” x 8” for Heathentide Orphans) so if the lines of your poem are more than half the width of the page in your submission, it will break to a new line in the print version. We can reduce the font size to 11 point, but we can’t go below that. If that doesn’t resolve the issue, lines that break are slightly indented to indicate continuity.