Guidelines for Magazine Submissions

We believe that reading a copy of Spitball Magazine is the best way to understand what kind of material we look for in magazine submissions. For this reason, we ask all submitting authors to purchase a sample copy of the magazine - post-paid - for $6. This is a one-time requirement, but of course, we hope you'll become a loyal subscriber! If your work is accepted for publication, you will receive two copies of the issue containing your submission. Please note the following guidelines:

All material must be about baseball.

All material must be original, unpublished, and the property of the author.
We do not accept simultaneous submissions.

We will consider writing of all kinds, but we are most interested in receiving poetry and short fiction.

We will consider poems of any kind, style, and length.

Fiction should normally run 10-20 typed, double-spaced pages (or shorter); short stories longer than 20 pages must be of exceptional quality to be seriously considered for publication.

Length guidelines for non-fiction writing of all kinds (except book reviews) is the same as for fiction.

A brief biography of the author should accompany every submission.

A self-addressed, stamped envelope should accompany every submission and correspondence.

In addition, we assign book reviews, rather than accept unsolicited ones. Writers interested in becoming a baseball book reviewer for Spitball should submit a sample review, 500-2000 words in length, of a current baseball book (i.e., a baseball book published in the current calendar year).

Poems submitted to Spitball will automatically be considered for “Poem of the Month” honors in this website, as well as for publication in the magazine.

All material published in Spitball will be automatically considered for inclusion in the next “Best of Spitball” anthology.

We would love to hear from you!