Open Nonfiction Submissions
Cirque is a literary journal publishing twice yearly, summer and winter. Submission deadlines fall on March 21 and September 21, respectively.
Contributors need to live in or have at least a five year association with the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, the provinces of British Columbia or the Yukon Territory. Hawaii and the Russian far eastern coast are welcome, too, as part of the loosely defined North Pacific Rim. Cirque was founded to support writers in this broad region.
Nonfiction submissions should be double spaced and no longer than 12 pages in a 12 point font, preferably Times New Roman or Arial. Submissions between 9/21/2020 and 3/21/2120 will be considered for Issue # 23, which we expect to publish in June 2021.
About Cirque Press
Cirque Press grew out of Cirque, a literary journal established in 2009 by Michael Burwell, as a vehicle for the publication of writers and artists of a region broadly defined as reaching north from Oregon to the Yukon Territory and south from there through Alaska to Hawaii. Sandra Kleven joined Cirque in 2012 working as a partner with Burwell.
Cirque contributors are widely published in an array of journals. Their writing is significant. It is personal. It is strong. It draws on these regions in ways that add to the culture of places.
The body of work of individual writers could be lost if it remained scattered across the literary landscape. Cirque Press (2017) seeks to gather the work of our contributors into book-form where it can be experienced coherently as statement, observation, and artistry.
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