Suspend: to keep in a mood or feeling of expectation or incompleteness

Mystery.

Riddle.

Teaser.

Cliffhanger.

Suspended is meant for the stories that are complete, yet seem unfinished. The endings hang and dangle off the final page, like a pendulum, seeking answers. We want your poems or short fiction stories that are suspended in this regard, have suspenseful endings, or are ambiguous in nature at any or every turn. Send us your visual art that makes onlookers question its meaning.

Suspended accepts simultaneous submissions. Let us know if your submission is accepted elsewhere and withdraw your submission. We charge $3 to help with the cost of printing. Upload your submission to our Submittable page, and please use a Microsoft Word document, Times New Roman 12 pt. font and double-spaced, for written work. 

All rights are retained by the author or visual artist upon publication. We do not accept previously-published work, whether published in another magazine or self-published. Our submission period opens on February 1 and closes on June 30. We publish each issue on November 1.

*WE DO NOT ACCEPT SUBMISSIONS CREATED WITH AI*

We offer an honorarium of $15 for poetry and visual art, and $20 for fiction through PayPal.