Submissions
Riddle Fence is an arts and culture journal based in St. John’s, NL. Our mandate is to publish high quality artwork, essays, interviews, poems, reviews and short fiction.
Visual art should be a minimum 300 dpi. Black and white is preferred, but we do publish colour.
For poetry, a maximum of 5 pages, please.
For prose, we suggest a maximum of 5,000 words.
For fiction, we’re looking for compelling stories that tell us something important about being human.
For non-fiction, we’re looking for essays on the arts or on particular artists, or on aspects of “culture” and “art” as an idea or as a specific practice. In-depth book reviews. Interviews with artists of all disciplines. Creative non-fiction with a strong narrative drive. What aren’t we looking for? Personal reminiscence and travel writing – unless it has a strong narrative drive – re-told folklore or academic essays. Your best bet? Read some back issues of Riddle Fence, and you’ll quickly get an idea what we publish.
We’re also looking for book reviews. Not book reports. Not flippant recommendations where the reviewer spends most of the review proving how clever she or he is. We don’t want quick and dirty murders designed to cripple sales because you have a grudge against the writer, either. (Heavens, would anyone stoop so low?) In-depth, considered evaluations of books, weaknesses, strengths, your take on whether the book accomplishes what it set out to do — book reviews. Remember those? Yeah. Please query the managing editor: Carson Butts - managingeditor@riddlefence.com.
Submissions are open. Please e-mail your submission to:
