Submissions

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The Vault is a Raleigh-based print periodical featuring genre-fiction short stories, flash fiction, poetry, and visual art, all centered around a different theme each issue.

This upcoming issue’s theme is … [ADD THEME HERE]

Our submission requirements are as follows …

• Email your submissions to submissions@oakcityvault.com
• All submissions must take the theme of the issue into account, but feel free to interpret that theme however you wish. Lateral thinking is encouraged!
• Short story submissions should be a maximum of 3000 words in length, double-spaced, 12-point Arial or Times New Roman font.
• We also accept flash fiction and poetry submissions, as well as artwork! Please note that, except for the front and rear cover art, all images in the final publication will be printed in black-and-white.
• We will not accept fan fiction, or any works based on third-party intellectual property (for instance, no original stories set in established worlds unless you own the setting yourself).
• We will not accept any work that has already been published elsewhere.
• NO AI-GENERATED TEXT OR IMAGES will be accepted. We have tools to detect these things, and attempting to submit AI-generated content will get you blacklisted from The Vault indefinitely.
• Please submit a maximum of one story per issue.
• Authors selected for this issue will not be eligible to submit for the next issue.
• In the interest of full disclosure: we are not aiming to make money on this publication. Any money we do make will go towards offsetting the cost of printing and typesetting.
• You will retain all legal rights to any of your work that gets published in The Vault.