Submission Guidelines

HOW TO SUBMIT: 

Please email your submission to info@readthevault.com.  We accept submissions year-round. There is no charge to submit your work.

All submissions must be in pdf or word format, 12-point type, double-spaced, with at least 1” margins.  DO NOT NUMBER YOUR PAGES.

The author’s name, address, telephone number, email address and word count should be in the email you use for submission, but NOT ON YOUR PAGES.

We are an all-volunteer staff reading work as closely and carefully as possible. Please wait six months before querying regarding the status of submissions.

WORD COUNT:

Submission categories and word limits are as follows:

·      Shorts (500 words, any genre)

·      Fiction (5,000 words)

·      Memoir (5,000 words)

·      Essay (5,000 words)

Poetry (10-page limit, single-spaced, except to indicate a new stanza, maximum of 4 poems per submission).  

Fiction and Memoir submissions may be excerpts from longer works.  Submissions exceeding the maximum word count will only be reviewed at the editors’ discretion.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: 

We accept simultaneous submissions. If you submit to multiple sources and are accepted to another publication, please let us know. 

AUTHOR’S WARRANTIES:  

By submitting to this site you warrant and agree that:

(i) You are the author and sole owner of your work; 

(ii) The work is original and no part of the work was taken from or based on any other literary, dramatic, musical, film, or graphic arts, except as identified in your submission as text or notes;

(iii) The work does not infringe upon any copyright, privacy rights, rights of a third party, or any common law or statutory law;

(iv) You will retain the copyright to your work. By submitting your work, you grant to The Vault a non-revocable, royalty free license to publish the work on The Vault website and in print and in any collection or anthology;

(v) The work does not contain any material of a libelous or obscene nature;

(vi)  The work is not in the public domain, and has not been published in any format by any person or entity that may still own rights to the work; and

(vii) If a judgment is obtained against The Vault for usurping rights controlled by any other party, you agree to hold The Vault and its editors harmless and indemnify them for all damages and costs. 

Thank you for the opportunity to read your work.