Mikroskosmos Literary Journal (print) only accepts submissions from Wichita State University students, faculty, and alumni. All other submissions should be submitted through Mojo (online).
Fiction: We are interested in stories that excite us with innovation in form, structure, and language. Above all, we’re looking for stories that connect us, touch us, and revolutionize our worlds. Experimental or not, please send us a manuscript of under 6,000 words. If you’re submitting flash fiction, include up to three stories in a single document.
Poetry: We are interested in poems that blur contemporary styles with traditional modes, poems that light up with raw energy but point in a specific direction, and poems that push through leaps of image and gesture but resound with a strong emotional core. Above all, we enjoy poems that are willing to take risks while maintaining clarity of expression. Send up to 4 poems or 8 pages maximum, all in one document. If you have a single long poem that exceeds 8 pages, we welcome you to submit it as an exception to the page-limit rule and as the totality of your submission.
Nonfiction: We enjoy creative nonfiction pieces that embrace the tactics of fiction but don’t shy away from the innovative and the experimental—in fact, we’re rather interested in what you can show us—but keep in mind we’re looking for engaging nonfiction stories, not journalism or academic essays. Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words.
Artwork: We publish all forms of visual artwork, including but not limited to photography, painting, and drawing.
Everyone is welcome to submit to Mojo (online).
Fiction: We are interested in stories that excite us with innovation in form, structure, and language. Above all, we’re looking for stories that connect us, touch us, and revolutionize our worlds. Experimental or not, please send us a manuscript of under 6,000 words. If you’re submitting flash fiction, include up to three stories in a single document.
Poetry: We are interested in poems that blur contemporary styles with traditional modes, poems that light up with raw energy but point in a specific direction, and poems that push through leaps of image and gesture but resound with a strong emotional core. Above all, we enjoy poems that are willing to take risks while maintaining clarity of expression. Send up to 4 poems or 8 pages maximum, all in one document. If you have a single long poem that exceeds 8 pages, we welcome you to submit it as an exception to the page-limit rule and as the totality of your submission.
Nonfiction: We enjoy creative nonfiction pieces that embrace the tactics of fiction but don’t shy away from the innovative and the experimental—in fact, we’re rather interested in what you can show us—but keep in mind we’re looking for engaging nonfiction stories, not journalism or academic essays. Submissions should not exceed 6,000 words.
Artwork: We publish all forms of visual artwork, including but not limited to photography, painting, and drawing.
The Mikrokosmos team is excited to announce our 2026-2027 Mikrokosmos Fiction Contest. We are looking for fiction from alumni, students, teachers, and staff of Wichita State University. Our top three submissions will be printed in Volume 73 of Mikrokosmos and receive prize money based on their placement by our guest judge. It costs nothing to submit, but we ask that you tell us how you are affiliated with Wichita State in your bio. If you are not affiliated with WSU, you are unfortunately not eligible to submit for the contest. General submissions may be resubmitted as contest submissions, but please identify if you've submitted it previously during this cycle (Fall 2026). Guidelines are provided below, as well as prize money information and a brief bio of our Fiction Judge, Snowden Wright.
The following prizes will be awarded to fiction winners:
First Place Prize: $250
Second Place Prize: $150
Third Place Prize: $100
We are interested in stories that excite us with innovation in form, structure, and language. Above all, we’re looking for stories that connect us, touch us, and revolutionize our worlds. Experimental or not, please send us a manuscript of under 6,000 words. If you’re submitting flash fiction, include up to three stories in a single document.
We are delighted to introduce Snowden Wright as our esteemed Fiction Judge!
Snowden Wright is the author of the novel American Pop, a Wall Street Journal WSJ+ Book of the Month and NPR Favorite Book of the Year. He has written for The Atlantic, Salon, Esquire, The Oxford American, and the New York Daily News, among other publications, and previously worked as a fiction reader at The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Paris Review. Wright was the Visiting Writer and Prose Faculty at the 2021 Longleaf Writers Conference, and his debut novel, Play Pretty Blues, won the 2012 Summer Literary Seminars’ Graywolf Prize. Recipient of the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship from the Carson McCullers Center, Wright lives in Yazoo County, Mississippi. His latest novel is The Queen City Detective Agency.
Snowden’s Social Media:
https://www.facebook.com/snowden.wright/
https://www.instagram.com/snowden.wright/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7014923.Snowden_Wright