We Publish Every Submission That Meets Our Guidelines
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If your work is original, if it hasn’t been previously published, if you wrote or created it yourself, if it follows our submission guidelines, we publish it.
Most literary magazines accepting submissions treat publication like a competition. The barrier to entry is high. The odds are stacked against you. Your work has to be the "right fit" for their aesthetic, their theme, their vision.
We're not doing that.
Helia Lit exists because we got tired of the gatekeeping. We're two writers with MFAs and over two decades combined experience in journalism and marketing. We've been published. We've been rejected. We've watched good work get turned down for reasons that had nothing to do with quality.
So we built something different. A digital literary magazine where your work doesn't have to fight for a spot. No submission fees. No limit on how often you can submit. No waiting months to hear back.
Our Submission Process
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Fill out the submission form and upload your work through the portal. Double-check that everything is included so we can move it smoothly into the queue.
Submit Your Work
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We read every submission to make sure it follows our published guidelines. This step is only about alignment with those guidelines, not subjective taste or “fit.”
Submission Review
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Submissions meeting our guidelines will be added to our publication lineup. These will go live as part of our March 13 launch. All future submissions will go live on Fridays.
Getting Published
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If a submission doesn’t meet our guidelines, we’ll be in touch within seven business days with more details. We will let you know the reason for not publishing your work.