America submission guidelines and market information
America Submission Guidelines
Submission Address
Submissions are accepted via Submittable. See the submission guidelines for details.
Phone: (212)581-4640
Editor:
Submitting Your Work to America
Before submitting to America
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To be sure your submission is appropriate for this market, we recommend you familiarize yourself with America by reading a sample issue before submitting.
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From the America guidelines:
What is America looking for?
- Pitches for feature-length reported pieces, essays and analysis. Feature-length pieces should be approved as a pitch and discussed with editors before a full manuscript is prepared and submitted.
- “Faith in Focus” essays starting from personal faith experience
- "Faith & Reason" essays, more scholarly treatments of theological or philosophical topics.
- “Short Take” opinion essays
- Short poems of forty or fewer lines
Submission Guidelines Details for America
Market Type: Magazine
Contact: Paul Mariani, poetry editor
Accepts:
Web Address: www.americamagazine.org
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Updated October 16, 2020