SUBMIT
Submissions will be open from February 1 to May 1
for a Summer 2025 issue.
As a volunteer-run literary magazine, we have recently made adjustments to address operational costs. Our submission portal for the Summer 2025 issue will be open from February 1 through May 1. For the first two weeks of the submission window (February 1–14), submissions will be free. Starting on February 15, there will be a $3 fee per submission to help cover the upkeep of our online magazine.
If this poses a financial barrier, please reach out to editor@hoppermag.org to request a fee waiver.
To submit to The Hopper, click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page. All attachments must be in Microsoft Word (with the exception of art submissions). For questions and concerns, please reach out to the editors at editor@hoppermag.org.
We’re interested in work that:
Offers new and different articulations of the human experience in nature. Specifically, nature writing that is psychologically honest about the environmental crisis and the impacts of mechanical modernity.
Explores place as both the cultural and physical landscapes of an author’s region.
Uses language to gain new insights into the natural world.
Uses the natural world to gain new insights into language.
Questions the divisions between nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.
Interrupts the purely human narrative with non-human actors and speakers.
Includes digital consciousness in the experience of the physical world.
Investigates environmental injustice and how race, place, and space are all subject to policing.
Interrogates and/or repurposes clichés for the needs of today.
Elevates voices that were previously not often heard in this sub-genre.
Seeks to question instead of proclaim.
Is well written and deeply considered as well as feisty and brisk on occasion.
We encourage submissions from BIPOC, people in the LBGTQ+ community, people with disabilities, immigrants, the incarcerated, women, non-binary people, and people of other marginalized groups.