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Fence [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
36-09 28th Avenue
Address (line 2): 
Apartment 3R
Zip / Postal Code: 
11103-4518
Submission Guidelines: 
https://fenceportal.org/submit-2 [2]
City: 
Astoria
Website: 
https://fenceportal.org [3]
Logo or Cover Image (Choose a file, then click upload.): 
State: 
New York
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Editorial Codirector
Contact First Name: 
Emily
Wallis Hughes
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Translation
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Sunday, September 28, 2025 to Sunday, October 19, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Short story collections
Essay collections
Novel
Memoir
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Hardcover
Audio
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Small Press Distribution, Consortium, direct distribution (Fence Books), Accelerate 360, Exact Editions, Small Press Distribution, subscriptions, direct distribution (Fence Magazine)
Tips From the Editor: 

Please read and subscribe to Fence, and check out the books we have published. If you dig what you read, then send us your literary art during one of our open submission periods.

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Fence has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. It is also Fence’s mission to encourage writing that might otherwise have difficulty being recognized because it doesn’t answer to either the mainstream or to recognizable modes of experimentation.

Representative Authors: 

Ariana Reines, Harmony Holiday, Chelsey Minnis, Catherine Wagner, Joyelle McSweeney, Michael Earl Craig, Aaron Kunin, Laura Sims, Christopher Janke, Jibade Khalil Huffman

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
10-20
Publishing type: 
online and print [4]
Temporarily closed to submissions
Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/fence

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/fence [2] https://fenceportal.org/submit-2 [3] https://fenceportal.org [4] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/online_and_print