AGNI

Fiction, Non-fiction, Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Poetry, Art
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AGNI is an American literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, interviews, and artwork twice a year in print and weekly online from its home at Boston University. The publication was founded in 1972 at Antioch College as The Agni Review. Its coeditors are Sven Birkerts and William Pierce.

AGNI publishes two 240-page print issues annually. Each issue includes 30–40 contributors, with a minimum print run of 2,500. AGNI has subscribers across the United States and in many other countries. It is carried by university and public libraries, and is distributed to independent and chain bookstores within the U.S. and Canada.

Submissions

AGNI welcomes authors from all over the world.

AGNI is looking for writing that is out of the ordinary. Not mainstream.

”We seek out writers who tell their truths in their own words and convince us as we read that we’ve found something no one else could have written.”

When to submit

The submissions portal is open for two reading periods a year—from September 1st through December 15th, and again from January 15th through May 31st .

Nearly everything AGNI publishes is unsolicited.

They will not consider writing that has already been published in English. Foreign language pieces are okay for translation.

AGNI is interested in personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, free verse, blank verse, visual poetry, prose poems, shaped or concrete poems, formal or structured poetry, short stories, and short shorts; they do not publish academic essays or purely journalistic writing.

They do not publish genre romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction; however, they are open to writing that borrows elements from any of these. They will consider excerpts if they are considered stand alone.

There are no official word limits, although space often is often a consideration.

There is a $3 reading fee for all fiction, non-fiction and poetry when submitted through their online portal. (Just think of it as postage) No AI.

Please send one story, one essay, or up to five poems at a time, and please submit only once per reading period. Never email your submission.

Paper submissions

The best way to submit is online. AGNI editors live in several states and always share work before a decision is made.

If you’d still rather avoid AGNI‘s Subfolio portal, please address your envelope to Fiction Editor, Poetry Editor, or Non-fiction Editor and mail to:

AGNI Magazine
Boston University
236 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215

There is no fee for snail submissions. Do not mail your work in the months of June, July, or August. Please include SASE. Simultaneous submissions OK.

Payments and rights

All submissions are considered for both print and online publication. (Reverb publication is limited to writers whose work has previously appeared in AGNI or AGNI Online.)

AGNI buys first worldwide serial rights and pay $30 per printed (or printed-out) page for accepted prose, and $50 per page for accepted poetry (50% more in each category for translations), up to a maximum of $300. Copyright remains with the author.

agni.subfolios.com/submit

Editorial Staff

– Founding Editor: Askold Melnyczuk
– Editor William Pierce
– Senior Editor:Shuchi Saraswat
– Non-fiction Editor: Mary O’Donoghue
– Senior Fiction Editor: Sven Birkerts
– Senior Poetry Editor: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Authors (including Nobel-Laureats)

– Seamus Heaney
– Jorge Luis Borges
– Orhan Pamuk
– Wislawa Szymborska
– Anna Akhmatova
– Vladimir Nabokov
– Jhumpa Lahiri
– Ha Jin
– Chinua Achebe

Awards

– The John Cheever Award for Short Fiction
– The Anne Sexton Poetry Award
– The William Arrowsmith Translation Award
– The Ed Hogan Award for Literary Editing
– PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing

Anthologies

– Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses

– Best American Short Stories
– Best American Poetry
– Best American Essays
– Best American Nonrequired Reading
– Best Creative Non-fiction
– The O. Henry Prize Stories

AGNI Online

AGNI launched its online supplement in 2003 as an extension of the print journal. It posts new writing weekly.

Thank you and Happy Publishing J

AGNI Magazine
Boston University
236 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215

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