Here at JuiceBox we believe life is about the little things. The ordinary things. The pedestrian things. The seen-it-so-many-times-I-don’t-see-it-anymore things.

Let’s not overlook the creak in the door, the single geranium, the sound of a train, the smell of garlic, the frayed edge, the graffiti, the gong, the spit-up, the chortle, the lentil soup when it’s cold.

Send us your poems, your fiction, your creative nonfiction, your art.
Previously unpublished work only, please.

JuiceBox accepts submissions New Year's day through Halloween.

[Submit your work only a total of three times in a calendar year.]

Please address your very friendly and informative cover letter to the appropriate editor. You may upload your document in any of the following formats: doc, docx, txt, rtf, zip. Include a brief bio, word count, and the title of your piece in your cover letter.

No funky fonts. No tricky little doodads. No word art. If we can’t read it, we’ll skip it.

For art submissions, please submit in one of the following formats: pdf, jpg, gif, tiff, png.

We’re a small, nonprofit operation. We appreciate your patience. Feel free to email us if you haven’t heard anything four weeks after submission.

We’re also happy to accept simultaneous submissions—we know how it is. But please state that you are making a simultaneous submission in your cover letter, and if your piece is accepted elsewhere, withdraw it from consideration promptly. That will make us happy. It will also keep you eligible to submit work in the future.

If JuiceBox accepts your work, you grant us exclusive electronic rights for a period of 90 days, as well as a non-exclusive right to maintain a copy of published work in our archives. You retain all other rights, including the right to publish the work in non-electronic form at any time; we just ask that any subsequent publication include “originally published in JuiceBox: A Journal of the Ordinary.”

At this point, JuiceBox does not provide any remuneration other than the sheer joy of seeing your piece accepted and published. We’ll let you know if this ever changes.