Submissions Guidelines

Canary is published four times a year to welcome each new season on the solstices and equinoxes. We have changed our Submissions schedule due to an overflow of really good work and will henceforth be open for submissions only during February, May, August and November. These are the months prior to each issue month and will give us time to finish reading all the submissions for the period. Occasionally the issue will fill up before the submission period is scheduled to end, and in that case we will close submissions early. Always check here to see when submissions will close.

Canary WILL NOT open for the Winter Solstice 2024-25 issue. We already have a beautifully full issue in the queue. So sorry for the inconvenience. We will be open from February 1- 28 for Spring-themed work for the Spring Equinox issue due out March 21, 2025.

Please submit no more than 5 poems, or essays/short stories of not more than 1500 words. We look forward to reading your work on your experience of the losses to the natural world in your home environment and the joys of that natural world that we stand to lose.