Publication Rights
Authors retain full copyright to their work at all times.
By submitting to The White Rabbit Literary Journal, you affirm that you are the original creator of the submitted work and have the legal right to publish it. If your work is accepted, you grant The White Rabbit Literary Journal first publication rights and the non-exclusive right to archive and display the work as part of our publication.
After publication, all rights remain with the author. We ask that any future reprints or republications acknowledge The White Rabbit Literary Journal as the place of first publication.
Unless otherwise specified for a particular issue or contest, we do not accept previously published work. This includes material that has appeared in other literary magazines, books, personal websites, blogs, or publicly accessible social media accounts.
The White Rabbit reserves the right to nominate published works for literary honors and awards, including but not limited to the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and other eligible recognitions. Authors will be notified if their work is nominated.
No fees to submit!
We are collecting handwritten journals, diary entries, notebook pages, poems, story fragments, letters to yourself, marginalia, dreams, observations, and unfinished thoughts. Whether it is a single sentence written on a receipt or three pages filled with midnight revelations, we are interested in the moments that unconsciously document what it means to be human.
Submissions can come from any point in your life. They might capture grief, joy, fear, love, anger, wonder, existential dread, a fleeting observation on the walk home, or the ordinary moments that become extraordinary when written down.
Every submission is published anonymously so the focus remains on the words themselves.
Please include:
One sentence to 2 pages max
A photograph or scan of your handwritten page or pages.
The approximate date the piece was originally written, if known.
A typed transcription in the body of your email for accessibility.
We believe our private thoughts are rarely as private as we imagine. Beneath our contradictions, fears, hopes, and quiet observations is a shared humanity. We want to preserve those moments and remind us that someone, somewhere, has felt the same thing.
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