We feature stories under 1000 words.

Submissions are open during the final week (7 days) of each academic month, with the exception of December. (So: the final weeks of August, September, October, November, January, February, and March.)

Writers may send one or two stories in a single document. (If you have micros -- each story <  250 words -- you can send up to five.)


If you need to withdraw a story from a group, open the submission on Submittable and send us a message via the messages tab.

We generally can't respond to queries about submission status. Please follow Submittable for information relating to submission status.

We ask that you wait for a response to each submission before submitting again.

As an online journal with an accessible archive, Wigleaf is 'ever-live,' meaning that all of our authors represent us, and vice versa, in a perpetual way. By policy, we de-platform, without public comment, authors who engage in or promote hate speech and/or bigotry.

All rights revert to author upon publication. Simultaneous submissions are fine.