Submissions Guidelines   

• Send your submission as one single Word document or PDF, especially if your work is formally or spatially-reliant.
• Include your name either in the document name or as a header.
• We ask that you wait until you hear back from us to submit again, which includes sending a second submission in another form/genre. Please send work no more than twice a year. Multiple submissions beyond two per year (starting from the date of your first submission) will not be read or receive a response. 
• We aim to have a three month response time—though as Annulet is a small operation, this is often aspirational in practice. Know that if you have not heard from us, your submission is still under consideration. 
• As of January 2026, we’re working hard to respond to all outstanding submissions, and commit to bringing our response rate back down to approximately three months. We appreciate your patience very much.
• Please indicate if your work is simultaneously submitted in your cover letter. If part of your submission is accepted elsewhere, please message and withdraw your piece(s) promptly as a message through your original submission. Do not send a separate notification email—let’s keep it all in one place.
• While not essential, you may include a brief bio note with your submission.
• If you are sending work with a form that’s indented as “justified,” please take note that we might not be able to replicate it exactly, or that we might need to reproduce the text as an image for the site.
• We eagerly read translations into English of works originally composed in other languages in any of our genres. Submissions should follow the guidelines as specified in the category descriptions below. Translators are asked to ensure that publication rights and author permissions have been secured before sending their work for our review.
• For all reviews and essay submissions which include quotations from the text considered, or other texts, please include in-text page number citations (7), endnotes to each text from which material or a quotation is drawn [1], or the line numbers of a poem you’re closely reading (12-13), which correspond to a Works Cited listing each source text after your essay’s conclusion. Please do not send scholarly papers that haven’t yet been revised for a literary-critical journal reading audience.
• At this time, Annulet regrets that we cannot offer payment for the work we publish. As the project grows, this is something we hope to amend in the future.

• Please submit up to seven poems at a time. Length is as you please.

• There is no word count minimum. The maximum word count should be within respectful reason. No full-length novels or novellas, please.
• If you are submitting multiple prose pieces, please send no more than three per submission. If your prose pieces are each less than a page or two, you can submit up to five per submission. 
• We don’t distinguish between short prose and flash fiction: please keep this in mind should you consider the term a critical designation for your work. If it is important to you that your writing be published as flash specifically, it more likely belongs in an outlet that names it as such.
• In your cover letter, please designate whether you consider your piece to be fiction, nonfiction, prose, or something else. Genre fiction would best be sent elsewhere.

• An annulet, as we define the form, is a short-form close reading of one poem or one prose passage that is scholarly in approach and convivial in delivery.
• Poems or prose passages considered may come from any point in the literary record. 
• You may closely read translations as long as your annulet also considers the text in its original language.
  
• Please include a copy, in full, of the text (and its bibliographic information) you are close reading along with your submission. You may send a scan, screenshot, or other files, as long as they are legible.
• Your annulet should be no longer than 1500 words, no shorter than 850 words.
• Our interest is much less piqued by canonical poems, or ultra-famous prose passages, unless you’re here to say something tangy about it. Pieces or selections considered must be published in print or online.
• Selections from conference papers, talks, and lectures are welcome as long as they are not elsewhere in print.
• When considering what might be a good fit, go for things that might be too weird for peer review.
  
• Please include necessary bibliographic information, and please use Chicago style.

• Comparative essays consider more than one literary thing in relation with the other, clearly framed and defined.
• These essays may be longer, but no more than 5000 words.
• As above, when considering what approach might be a good fit, go for things that are too weird for peer review.
• Please include necessary bibliographic information, and use Chicago style with endnotes for references.