Canopy Literary Review
The Canopy publishes literary fiction, speculative fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, conceptual essays and visual art.
Anyone is welcome to submit. We seek especially to promote transgender and nonbinary writers and artists. Submissions that stand out will be those that capture the unique perspectives that often come from the effort to preserve one’s identity in the face of ill-fitting or oppressive social constructs.
We are always open for submissions.
Submissions must be your own previously unpublished work.
Simultaneous submissions are welcome.
We do not accept submissions written by or in any way developed using AI technology. Published submissions later found to have used AI will be unpublished.
Note: If you know any of our editors personally please submit using a pseudonym and modified bio so we may give your work an unbiased review.
We seek high quality literary fiction about life as we know it, but dare to explore the outlandish and improbable too. We love innovative writing, surprising plots and characters we’ll still be thinking about years from now.
We are primarily interested in short stories up to 10,000 words, though longer works may be considered if we just can’t put them down.
We seek poetry in any style, classic or innovative. We love poetry that makes us think, feel and laugh, that stokes our imagination and inspires us to act.
Submit up to five poems, ten pages max.
Cover any topic. We welcome persuasive, informative, philosophical, humorous, personal, academic, etc.
Essay submissions should be 5000 words or less.
Speculative work may be fiction or nonfiction. We’re looking for work that changes something about the world we know to show us something we don’t often see in ourselves. Give the world a twist, a tweak, a filter. Show us what we take for granted by giving us a world that lacks it or has too much.
Photos, paintings, drawings, sketches, sculptures, comics, political cartoons, etc.
Submit up to seven images.