Cottonwood

Cottonwood is a literary magazine publishing new and well-known writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We publish a wide variety of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Cottonwood welcomes submissions of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction, preferably through this website.

Please limit poetry submissions to five, prose submissions to one story or essay. Submissions sent to our physical mailing address will not be returned unless they are accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, and submissions are read year-round. Please see our submissions page for full guidelines.

Cottonwood receives support from the Department of English of the University of Kansas. Production is facilitated by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences of the University of Kansas and KU Libraries.

Cottonwood is indexed by the Humanities International Complete, Poem Finder, and the Index of American Periodical Verse.

This electronic edition provides free access to the back issues of the journal. The most recent three years are available via print subscription only.