Red Weather Literary Magazine

Thank you for your interest in our magazine. Red Weather publishes fiction, short stories, poems, interviews, imaginative essays, art work and b/w photography. Red Weather’s intention is to publish the best writing available from MSUM undergraduate and graduate student, faculty, staff, and alumni.
We invite you to submit your finest work.

Other than the Graduate and Undergraduate prose and poetry prizes,
Red Weather does not pay in cash.
Contributors will receive copies of the journal.

Prose Guidelines:
Submit up to two (2) short stories or personal essays, 3500 word limit per piece. Submit up to three (3) flash fiction, word limit 750 per piece. Submit up to two (2) one act plays. Please review and spell check your work before submitting. We will edit prose using standard spelling and punctuation usage, unless you notify editors otherwise.

Poetry Guidelines:
Submit up to five (5) poems in any style. Two page maximum per poem. Please no longer than two pages in length for each individual poem submission. Poetry submissions will be printed as submitted. Given the nature of poetry, it is often difficult to distinguish atypical punctuation and misspellings as mistakes, or as intentional. Please submit your poetry as you wish it to appear when published.

Send submissions as a single Word document vs. separate documents for each poem.

Graphic Guidelines:
Submit up to five (5) original black and white photos or graphics and artwork. Submit up to five (5) High Resolution photos of original paintings or sculptures.

Original copies will not be returned.

All Submission Guidelines:
Submissions must be original, unpublished work.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable.
Submissions will not be returned.
All Entries are by Blind Submission: Author's name CANNOT appear on the manuscript! Include name, address, phone number, and email in the body of the submission email, but leave contact information off the attached document.

Email to: rweather@mnstate.edu

Send work as an attachment in WORD (.doc) format (No Word Perfect formats, or .docx, please). (Please do not send work "in-line" as it may ruin the formatting when imported.) Provide the cover sheet informational at the top of your email, followed by the attachment of your prose or poetry.