The SportScribe would love to receive any sports-themed fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, book reviews and interviews. If you’re not sure whether it qualifies as a “sports-themed” work, just send it along and we’ll decide if it’s a good fit. If it’s a great piece and we love it, we’ll make it work.
While all sports-themed submissions are welcome, we have a special taste for the dark side of sports – revenge and redemption stories, general vice/debauchery/depravity, and the off-the-field underbelly of the sports world. Send us your best and nastiest!
1,000 word limit for flash fiction and poetry; 5,000 word limit for short stories and everything else. We have some flexibility here – if your masterpiece is a bit longer, we’ll consider it (if it’s awesome) but anything beyond these word limits will probably be rejected as it doesn’t sync well with our publication parameters.
MS Word document in a standard 12-point font. For poems, use a shift+return between lines meant to be kept together. Other than that, you do you – we want our writers focused on great writing, not technical formatting.
OK, but let us know asap if your submission is accepted elsewhere.
OK, but let us know where and when your submission was previously published so that we can give credit to the original publication.
We will not accept any AI-generated or AI-assisted works. By submitting your piece, you are representing that it is 100% your work and that no portion is AI-generated or AI-assisted.
By submitting your work, you’re giving The SportScribe a non-exclusive right to publish your piece (with minor edits as appropriate) on our website, quarterly magazine and any collection or anthology that we may publish, and to include it in our online archives, and representing that you have exclusive ownership and rights to submit your piece and authorize its publication by The SportScribe.
Submit your work by e-mail to submissions@thesportscribe.com. The e-mail subject line should include the word “SUBMISSION” followed by the type of work (poem, flash fiction, short story, etc.), title and author name. The body of the e-mail should include a brief author bio (100 word max.) including any social media handles, and an optional one or two sentence summary. The manuscript itself should be transmitted as a separate attachment (MS Word document) to the transmittal e-mail, not included in the body of the e-mail.
The SportScribe is a start-up publication on a limited budget, so unfortunately we cannot pay our writers at this time. But you’ll have a publication cred, social media shout-outs and cocktail party bragging rights (or maybe just keg party bragging rights for this little rag).