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Basic Information
State: 
California
Website: 
https://thenormalschool.com [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://thenormalschool.com/submissions-1 [3]
Address: 
Fresno State, Creative Writing
Address (line 2): 
5245 North Backer Ave, PB98
City: 
Fresno
Zip / Postal Code: 
93740-8001
Contact Information
Steven
Church
Editor
Contact E-mail: 
normalschooleditors@gmail.com [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Payment: 
No payment
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Period: 
Sep 1 to Dec 1
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months

The Normal School is an online journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, journalism, author interviews, and multimedia texts. The biannual print magazine finished in spring 2019, ending its 11-year print run.

Read our website and get a feel for normal. Write well; then submit. Check out our website for more information.

We are particularly interested in essays that challenge established norms for the genre or that don’t seem to fit in easy categories of classification. Genre fiction is very unlikely to suit us, but if you think you can sell us on it, well, then shoot it on over. We thought we didn’t want sci-fi until we met some particularly compelling fighting robots, after all. We consider poetry of any style. Please limit the number of cat poems (unless, of course, they are really, really good cat poems).

Representative Authors: 
<p>Nick Arvin, Tom Bissell, Maud Casey, Adam Braver, Abraham Brennen, Ron Carlson, Denise Duhamel, Beth Ann Fennelly, Roxanne Gay, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Henley, Patrick Hicks, Dionne Irving, Kristin Iverson, Dimiter Kenarov, Philip Levine, Margot Livesey, Phillip Lopate, Dunya Mikhail, Ander Monson, Dinty W. Moore, Laura Pritchett, Lia Purpura, Ron Rash, David Shields, Ocean Vuong, Mary Yukari Waters, Christopher Yen</p>
Issues per Year: 
9
Year Founded: 
2007
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
1% to 5%
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
A couple
1,000 to 2,500

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/the_normal_school

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/the_normal_school [2] https://thenormalschool.com [3] https://thenormalschool.com/submissions-1 [4] mailto:normalschooleditors@gmail.com