Here at JuiceBox we believe life is about the little things. The ordinary things. The pedestrian things. The seen-it-so-many-times-I-don’t-see-it-anymore things.

Let’s not overlook the creak in the door, the single geranium, the sound of a train, the smell of garlic, the frayed edge, the graffiti, the gong, the spit-up, the chortle, the lentil soup when it’s cold.

Send us your poems, your fiction, your creative nonfiction, your art.
Previously unpublished work only, please.

JuiceBox accepts submissions year-round.

Poetry: Our poetry editor resists things like word counts. Let’s just say she likes poems short. Submit up to five poems at once.

Fiction: 2500 words or less. One piece at a time, please.

Creative Nonfiction: Keep it under 1100 words. Pieces, though short, should be whole. Send one at a time.

Art: We will accept any medium, but prefer that the pieces you submit are part of a cohesive collection that reflects Juice's mission to reinvent the ordinary. Our art editor will select one artist to be featured in each issue. Submit between 5 and 10 digital slides at a time. We prefer jpeg files that are smaller than 5 MB. If your art is selected, our art editor will contact you for any other files she might need prior to publication.

 

THE SERIOUS STUFF

JuiceBox reads year-round to publish in March, June, September.

[Please submit your work only a total of three times in a calendar year.]

Email your work to submissions [at] squeezetheuniverse [dot] com

Please write “submission: poetry” (etc.) in the subject line and address your very friendly and informative email to the appropriate editor. Copy your entire text into the body of the email and attach your Microsoft Word file.

No funky fonts. No tricky little doodads. No word art. If we can’t read it, we’ll feed it to a highly destructive one year old.

Please include contact information, a brief bio, word count, and the title of your piece in your email.

For art submissions, please send jpeg files.

We’re a small operation. We appreciate your patience. Feel free to email us if you haven’t heard anything four weeks after submission. Please do not send envelopes laced with anthrax.

 

NITTY GRITTIES

We’re also happy and delighted, even, to accept simultaneous submissions—we know how it is. But please state that you are making a simultaneous submission in your email, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere, withdraw it from consideration immediately. That will make us happy. It will also keep you eligible to submit work in the future.

If JuiceBox accepts your work, you grant us exclusive electronic rights for a period of 90 days, as well as a non-exclusive right to maintain a copy of published work in our archives. You retain all other rights, including the right to publish the work in non-electronic form at any time; we just ask that any subsequent publication include “originally published in JuiceBox: A Journal of the Ordinary.”

At this point, JuiceBox does not provide any remuneration other than the sheer joy of seeing your piece accepted and published. We’ll let you know if this ever changes.