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Submission Guidelines

What We Read, What We Publish

  • Elizabeth Eve King, The Card Game

    Cardgame, SF Northbeach

    We read Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Flash Prose, Poetry, Visual Art, Young Adult Literature, and Literary Translation.

  • We also curate Amuse-Bouche, a monthly content series, highlighting works of all genres.
  • We award two prizes each magazine cycle as well: The Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multilingual Texts.

Submitting to Lunch Ticket’s Next Issue

  • Lunch Ticket’s Issue 26 came out in December 2024. 
  • Lunch Ticket‘s Issue 27 will come out in June 2025.
  • The submission window for Lunch Ticket’s Issue 27 is February 1st to February 28th.
  • The submission window for Amuse-Bouche is February 1st to March 31st. 
  • Visual Art, Translation, and Young Adult are open for submissions year-round. However, submissions will only be reviewed between February 1st and March 31st for the spring issue and August 1st to September 30th for the fall issue.
  • Submitting to Lunch Ticket is always free. 
  • The age requirement for Lunch Ticket is currently 18 and older.
  • We welcome multilingual submissions in all genres.
Elizabeth Eve King, RR in Sienna

Ralph & Rita in Sienna, 36″x24″

Submission Guidelines

  • Please submit to Lunch Ticket only once per submission reading period (regardless of genre).
  • If your work has been published in Lunch Ticket, please skip one submission reading period before submitting again.
  • All submissions at Lunch Ticket are read anonymously in the first round. We only read pieces that have all identifying information removed. Make sure no identifying information exists in the document title, submission title, or the work itself. Identifying information (such as names and bios) can only be included in the cover letter, and not in any attached files or the submission title.
  • There is a 3,500-word limit for all genres and a three-poem limit for all genres that accept poetry. Longer submissions will not be read. 
  • All genres have a submission cap of 300. (Submission windows will close on the date specified above or after this threshold is met, whichever comes first.)
  • Please submit work to us that is double-spaced, and in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font. 
  • Please read the genre-specific guidelines in Submittable before submitting to Lunch Ticket.

Selection Process

For all genres and contests, you will receive a selection notification by or before the end of November. For Amuse-Bouche, selection notifications are sent on a rolling basis.

We will contact you no matter the result of your submission. 

Elizabeth Eve King, Kitchen

Kitchen I, 48″x36″

Notes About Publication

If your piece is selected, Lunch Ticket retains the first North American serial rights to publish, produce, reproduce, distribute, and market your submission. All other remaining rights revert to the author upon publication. If the work is published again, we ask for a credit line to indicate that the work first appeared in Lunch Ticket.

We encourage submissions from Antioch University Alumni, if and only if two or more years have passed since their graduation. (Please see our “About” page for further opportunities for students and recent graduates.) We do not accept submissions from the Antioch MFA program’s faculty or staff for publication in any section of the journal.

Literary Translation note: Please refer to standard Lunch Ticket guidelines for either poetry or prose. Your submission should include the original work along with your translation. We also require a statement that grants us permission to publish both the original work and the translation online, and that certifies that you have received permission from the original rights holder (either the publisher or the author, as applicable) to grant us such rights.

Thank you for your interest in submitting to Lunch Ticket! We look forward reviewing your submission(s).

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe
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Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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