Welcome to The Faoileánach Journal! Please read the guidance carefully before submitting. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out at faoileanachjournal@gmail.com.

We are seeking a cap of 50 submissions of poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and nonfiction under each theme. Please see our website (www.faoileanachjournal.com/themes) for more details. Each writer can submit one narrative piece or up to three pieces of poetry.

If you have been published in the previous quarter's issue, please wait until the quarter after next to submit again. 

- We are looking for submissions that are no longer than 1,500 words.

- Submissions must be in English or translated into English.

- We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if you are published elsewhere.

- Submissions may have been published before, but only through self-publishing or on social media such as Substack, Medium, or Instagram. All work must be your work. Plagiarism or AI will be rejected immediately.

- You do not have to have been previously published to submit; we encourage new work and new writers. (But do not fear! We will also read writers who have previously been published.)

- Please no erotica, animal abuse, or gore. Hate speech of any kind will be automatically discarded. 

- Please submit your work in a PDF format with your name and the title of your work in the file. 

- Please submit in Arial or Times New Roman font, 12pt size, double-spaced.

- Poetry should be single-spaced, Arial or Times New Roman font, 12pt, size.

- Submissions may have been published before, but only through self-publishing or on social media such as Substack, Medium, or Instagram. All work must be your work. Plagiarism or AI will be rejected immediately.

- You do not have to have been previously published to submit; we encourage new work and new writers. (But do not fear! We will also read writers who have previously been published.)

- Please no erotica, animal abuse, or gore. Hate speech of any kind will be automatically discarded. 

- Please submit your work in a PDF format with your name and the title of your work in the file. 

Please allow up to four weeks for a response. All submissions are free. 

At this time, because The Faoileánach Journal is a free online resource, we unfortunately do not have the ability to provide payment to authors.