Submissions - OPEN

Submitting to The Wild Umbrella means sending your stories, essays, and poems to a team of thoughtful readers and editors who will take time and care to polish, publish, and energetically promote your work. Contributors will be paid €10 per poem, €25 per story or essay, and €50 for accepted cover art submissions.

Unfortunately, we have had to add a €5 fee to submit to The Wild Umbrella. Donations and tips are always appreciated, still, and donations of €20 or more will receive an expedited response within 10 business days. All donations and tips go directly to compensating our contributors and bringing your work to life. We are volunteers operating as a not-for-profit organization, so everything helps!

If the €5 fee is prohibitive to you but you still with to submit, please send us an email and we'll see if we can't work something out.

Send your work to us!
Send your work to us!

Fiction

Our fiction team looks forward to reading any and all genres of interesting, genuine, thought-provoking work; independent stories and stand-alone excerpts from longer pieces are welcome, with submissions accepted up to 4,000 words.

Cover Art - CLOSED

For our yearly print anthology, we’re looking for submissions of photography or art that would make a vivid and visceral front cover. Ideally, submitted pieces would be able to fit into an A5 page, but we will consider all types and sizes of art and photography.

What We’re Looking For:

Poetry

1-5 poems of any length; our multidisciplinary poetry team looks forward to reading any genre, structure, topic, or concept that you have to offer. The team is currently enjoying reading collections by Seán Hewitt, Victoria Kennefick, June Jordan, and Carl Phillips, among plenty of others.

Non-Fiction

Submit anything less than 4,000 words. Our non-fiction team enjoys reading a wide array of work, including nature, travel, food, sport, and topical/satirical essays (we like humor with an edge).

Submission Guidelines:

Contributor & payment notes:

  • We accept submissions of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry through Duosuma.

  • Submissions are €5, but if that is not manageable, please email us to talk about a fee waiver. Writers will also have the option to donate to us when they submit (and we'd appreciate it!). Every donation goes directly toward paying contributors.

  • Contributors will receive €10 per poem and €25 per fiction story or non-fiction essay. For art submissions, accepted photography or art will be paid €50.

  • We read every submission carefully.

  • If we choose your work for publication, we keep first rights to publish, then return them to the writer, with the understanding that we may use the work in future social media or marketing campaigns.

Genre notes:

  • For fiction submissions: You can submit one story per submission window. Stories should be fewer than 4,000 words in total.

  • For non-fiction submissions: You can submit one essay per submission window. Essays should be fewer than 4,000 words in total.

  • For poetry submissions: You can send us up to 5 poems. Your poems should be submitted together in a single file, with each poem beginning on a new page.

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Simultaneous submissions & document notes:

  • Submitted work must be previously unpublished. However, work that has been self-published on your personal social media or blog is acceptable. Readers of our editors’ showcase will know: we love self-promotion!

  • Under no circumstances will we accept any work that is made – in any part – by AI.

  • Simultaneous submissions are encouraged! Please let us know by emailing thewildumbrella@gmail.com if your work is accepted anywhere else so that we can withdraw those pieces from consideration; in this instance, you are welcome to submit different work for consideration.

  • Submissions should be sent in a legible font – Times New Roman, for example – and no smaller than 12pt.

  • Submissions can be sent as Word documents.

Send your work to us!
Send your work to us!

Commitment to Our Contributors

There are a lot of great new and established journals in Ireland – we love Tolka, Ropes, the Madrigal, and plenty of others – and we'll add to that already-abundant ecosystem. We know we're only as good as our contributors, so we'll keep our writers at the forefront.

During the acceptance process, we’ll lend a hand to elevate your work through suggested edits and feedback, but we leave the final decisions to the creator. We will energetically promote your work on our socials after publication. We pay our contributors and our submissions are free.

Send your work to us!
Send your work to us!

Other Bits & Pieces

Personal Touch

We’ll work with many of our contributors, offering optional feedback to help your stories and poems pop.

Nomination Season

Our editors will nominate our favourite pieces each year for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prizes.

Promotion

We’ll promote stories & poems (and you!) as best we can, drawing more attention to your work.

Payment Plans

Contributors we choose to publish will receive €10 per poem and €25 per fiction story or non-fiction essay.