Submissions

We are always accepting submissions! Please send proposals or inquires to tripwirejournal@gmail.com before submitting work. Familiarity with the journal is appreciated. Simultaneous submissions reprints ok. Please title any documents with your name and include a brief bio for context.

Reviews/proposals now accepted on a rolling basis – we can usually get you free review copies/PDFs.

CURRENT & UPCOMING CALLS

Tripwire 23: (closed)

Tripwire 24: submissions considered Jan 1-March 1, 2026

Looking for: Essays (on contemporary writing, performance, and art), experiments in criticism, poetics statements and investigations, interviews, translations, black & white art work, long-form review essays (that consider several books or authors linked around central themes or questions), performance scores, etc. Submissions do not need to be related to issue themes.

Not looking for: Unsolicited poetry, fiction, or plays; conventional academic papers or dissertation chapters; “straight” translations of canonized authors or texts; work primarily designed to be presented online, color visual work.

Note for reviewers: Tripwire is looking for reviewers of new and forthcoming books of poetry, criticism, small press journals, and other forms of experimental writing and performance. While short form reviews are fine, we’re ideally looking for reviews that go a bit deeper than an extended blurb, perhaps reading the work(s) at hand alongside other books/authors and/or pressing aesthetic/political concerns.