Pear Noir! welcomes unsolicited submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry up to 5000 words. We also accept black and white artwork, including collage and photography, of at least 200 dpi.

February 1 - April 30
August 1 - October 31

We are amenable to simultaneous submissions; however, please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We are not interested in previously published material. This includes work that has appeared in print or online in any form.

By submitting your work for consideration, you are granting Pear Noir! first publication rights, as well as non-exclusive publication rights for future issues and anthologies (both online and in print). If your work is accepted, you will receive one contributor's copy as payment. All rights revert to the author on publication. Manuscripts may be edited to meet house style requirements.

To submit, paste up to five works (artwork may be attached), along with your address and a short biography/publication history, in the body of an email and send it to pearnoir [at] gmail [dot] com. Be sure to include your name and the title of your submission in the subject line.

Things we like: alcohol, algorithms, anatomy, blueprints, bricolage, butterflies, chutes too narrow, clocks, concert ephemera, Dada, diegesis, dogfish, eggs, entrails, existentialism, Final Fantasy, foreign currency, fragmented bodies, gaze theory, grammatology, grass skirts, history from below, hobbits, hot air balloons, inconspicuous compartments, intertextuality, ironclad warships, Jacquard looms, jetsam, jouissance, karaoke, kitsch, kookaburras, lighthouses, lipograms, lonely people, magic realism, minimalism, monsters, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, nihilism, nurserymen, organic intellectuals, origami, oysters, parachutes, postage stamps, puppets, quadratic equations, quiche, quotidian routines, recipes, Rube Goldberg machines, Ryan Manning, sad songs (and waltzes), solipsism, synecdoche, tattoos, topographic maps, turtles, umbrellas, unhappy endings, unreliable narrators, verisimilitude, vicissitude, vinyl, water lilies, weak thought, woodcuts, Xanadusim, xerography, xylophones, yellow-backs, yeomen, yo-yos, Zarathustra, zealots, and zymurgy.

Response time is one to two months (often shorter, sometimes longer). Please do not submit more than once during any one reading period. Pear Noir! is a small operation, and we provide feedback whenever possible.