We accept submissions all year round and will consider works from most genres. Excessively violent or sexually explicit writing will not be considered. We are mainly interested in the following:

• Short stories or flash fiction (Up to 4,500 words)
• Poetry (Up to 40 lines)
• Book reviews (Up to 1,000 words)
• Illustrations
  

Guidelines for text based submissions

1. Please send all text based submissions as an attachment and name the file as follows: title – author.
2. We accept text based submissions in .doc, .rtf, and .txt formats.
3. Include a brief biography of between 20-40 words with your work.
4. Let us know if the work you have sent has been published elsewhere.
5. A maximum of four poems, two pieces of flash fiction, or a single story per submission, please.
6. Prose submissions to be sent to submissions@outburstmagazine.com.
7. Poetry submissions to be sent to outburstpoetry@gmail.com.

Poetry books for review to:

The Editor

Outburst Magazine

Irey

Ballyfin

Portlaoise.

If you are working on something which falls outside these categories, or that you feel might be of interest to the magazine, feel free to send it in.