Press Pause [1]
The editors aim to publish art and words for the future by artists and writers who believe they’re carrying, on their hunched-over-computer shoulders, a pretty heavy yet very pretty burden—to offer a way into humanity so that readers may come back out with the wisdom required for positive change as individuals, and as a society. All accepted work will appear both online and in print.
We aren’t certain there is “good” and “bad” art—only honest and dishonest art, but we’ll get back to you on that. Suffice it to say, we really don’t want to be gatekeepers. We want to be a blank canvas. Send us whatever is in your hearts. We do mean whatever.
Submissions are rolling and free. We also run a yearly full-length contest: The Beautiful Pause Prize.
Issues per Year:
2
Year Founded:
2017
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:
6% to 10%
Issue Price:
$12
1,000 to 2,500
Subgenres:
BIPOC Voices [5]
Cross-genre [7]
Experimental [8]
Feminist [9]
Fiction [10]
Flash Fiction [11]
Formal Poetry [12]
Graphic/Illustrated [13]
Humor [14]
LGBTQ Voices [15]
Literary Fiction [16]
Lyric Essay [17]
Micro-poetry [18]
Narrative Nonfiction [19]
Nonfiction [20]
Poetry [21]
Political [22]
Pop Culture [23]
Prose Poetry [24]
Short Fiction [25]
Speculative Fiction [26]
Visual Poetry [27]