Submit to Illino!

What kind of work are we looking for?

This cycle, we’re looking for submissions that push the bounds of language and indigenous stories! What does it mean to really represent African thought in English? What does it mean to expand local folklore, proverbs, and riddles through your writing? If your work is linguistically innovative, if it plays on commonly told stories, or if it sits on the fringe of familiar and new, then send it our way! Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis..

Here’s some of the work we’ve published that plays around with language, and folklore:

These Genres are Welcome:

Stories can also have hints and even major elements of other genres, such as romance, realism, and so on. We just ask that the story can obviously be tied to one of the below genres:

 

Afrofuturism

Folklore

Fantasy & Mystic Fiction

YA Fiction

Final Notes

Compensation

Compensation for work starts at $20.

Submission Formatting

Learn more about how you can format your short story submission using this online article

Please contact us with any questions you have

We look forward to receiving your submission!