Welcome to SHOWCASE! We explore Object & Idea. A poem and a prose piece are selected for each monthly issue, and the authors answer questions about the meaning behind their work.
Every author can submit one poem or prose piece for three weeks before the launch of each issue, or multiple pieces for a fee during the same period. We publish monthly and generally in the 3rd full week of each month via Substack.
Please explore our magazine published at SHOWCASE!
Showcase pays $50 upon acceptance in each category and is sent to over 30,000 readers and writers.
General note on best practices:
Please make sure to submit to the correct category. We wont read poems submitted to prose and vice versa. Please be sure there are no typos in the submission info. Please format your prose properly, with paragraphs, punctuation, tabs at the beginning of new paragraphs. We receive many submissions and it's helpful to make it easy for us to read. Thanks and take care.
**Update: please only submit 1 poem per person. We received a very large number of submissions and want to be fair to as many people as we can. You can still submit multiple items for a small reading fee. Please also submit to the correct category. Submissions in the wrong category will be discarded by the editor. Thanks for your help!
About Showcase
We’re pleased to announce a literary publication focused on object and idea called Showcase. Showcase drops every Third Tuesday of the month on our Substack and is sent via email to 30,000 readers. We pay $50 per acceptance in poetry and prose.
Guidelines for Showcase
Each month, Showcase will select a poet and prose piece to feature with 1-2 poems, and 1-2 pages of flash prose (inclusive of Fiction and Nonfiction) followed by the writer's about-the-work and a short interview. We welcome open and friendly dialogue and commentary in the comment section. (Anything hateful, hypercritical, mean spirited, unrelated, and unconstructive will be deleted by monitors).
Selected writers will receive an honorarium of $50, a direct link to the newsletter, and their names will be featured as a part of Showcase’s monthly ad campaign upon publication. We will link from Showcase to a desired page for each writer. We’ll promote each issue on social media and other literary ad networks to help writers gain exposure.
We welcome new work, as well as published work. We recognize that print magazines and market forces have coalesced on a standard practice of only taking unpublished work and we want to give writers the opportunity for new eyes and ears for all of their work, new and old, published and unpublished.
For Prose Poetry please consider the following litmus: Submit heavily narrative prose poetry to the flash or the poetry. Work that falls short of narrative send to poetry.
All submissions are read blind. Statements and interview responses are read, if included, only after an author’s work is accepted. If you decide to include your about-the-work and interview before acceptance, please say what you want to say.
Please send us your edgy, risk-taking, diverse and dynamic work! All subject matter welcome, inclusive of historically marginalized voices.
See each category for more submission details.
By submitting to Showcase, you are granting us the right to publish your work online, and keep your work online if it is selected. By submitting, you are opting in to our newsletters and to being contacted by our other literary endeavors. Once we select work, we notify the author via Submittable and the author has three days to accept or decline payment and the publication offer. We pay the honorarium upon publication via PayPal only.
If your work is selected, it will be required that you answer the "Idea" portion of this form (though it is optional to fill out now). We will also require a short Interview be filled out. The Idea and Interview will appear along with the work.
A NOTE ON RE-SUBMISSIONS:
Please take care to dot your i's and cross your t's. Please allow a few months to pass before resubmitting the same creative work. We regret that we are unable to offer feedback on work that is not accepted. We are publishing flash prose to start and may open up to longer work in the future.
FORMATTING:
Poetry Guidelines:
1 (one) poem per person only, on any subject or theme, no more than one page each. Single spaced.
Prose Guidelines:
12 font & Times New Roman or similar. 2 pages max. We will not read past page two if more is submitted. Standard 1 inch margins. Proofing your work is essential. Any subject or theme. Fiction, Micro Essay, Non-Fiction all welcome.
**Update: please do not submit poetry to the prose category. Those items will be discarded. Thanks for your help!
About Showcase
We’re pleased to announce a literary publication focused on object and idea called Showcase. Showcase drops every Third Tuesday of the month on our Substack and is sent via email to 30,000 readers. We pay $50 per acceptance in poetry and prose.
Guidelines for Showcase
Each month, Showcase will select a poet and prose piece to feature with 1-2 poems, and 1-2 pages of flash prose (inclusive of Fiction and Nonfiction) followed by the writer's about-the-work and a short interview. We welcome open and friendly dialogue and commentary in the comment section. (Anything hateful, hypercritical, mean spirited, unrelated, and unconstructive will be deleted by monitors).
Selected writers will receive an honorarium of $50, a direct link to the newsletter, and their names will be featured as a part of Showcase’s monthly ad campaign upon publication. We will link from Showcase to a desired page for each writer. We’ll promote each issue on social media and other literary ad networks to help writers gain exposure.
We welcome new work, as well as published work. We recognize that print magazines and market forces have coalesced on a standard practice of only taking unpublished work and we want to give writers the opportunity for new eyes and ears for all of their work, new and old, published and unpublished.
All submissions are read blind. Statements and interview responses are read, if included, only after an author’s work is accepted. If you decide to include your about-the-work and interview before acceptance, please say what you want to say.
Please send us your edgy, risk-taking, diverse and dynamic work! All subject matter welcome, inclusive of historically marginalized voices. Please make sure your work is edited. Please note, we do not like oddly formatted work, e.g. colors, wacky fonts, large size or tiny fonts, etc.
See each category for more submission details.
By submitting to Showcase, you are granting us the right to publish your work online, and keep your work online if it is selected. By submitting, you are opting in to our newsletters and to being contacted by our other literary endeavors. Once we select work, we notify the author via Submittable and the author has three days to accept or decline payment and the publication offer. We pay the honorarium upon publication via PayPal only.
If your work is selected, it will be required that you answer the "Idea" portion of this form (though it is optional to fill out now). We will also require a short Interview be filled out. The Idea and Interview will appear along with the work.
A NOTE ON RE-SUBMISSIONS:
Please take care to dot your i's and cross your t's. Please allow a few months to pass before resubmitting the same creative work. We regret that we are unable to offer feedback on work that is not accepted. We are publishing flash prose to start and may open up to longer work in the future.
FORMATTING:
Poetry Guidelines:
ONE poem, on any subject or theme, no more than one page each. Single spaced.
Prose Guidelines:
12 font & Times New Roman or similar. 1.5 spaced. 2 pages max. We will not read past page two if more is submitted. Standard 1 inch margins. Proofing your work is essential. Any subject or theme. Fiction, Micro Essay, Non-Fiction all welcome.