Adelaide Literary Magazine
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We publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience.
Adelaide – from the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of the elements adal “noble” and heid “kind, sort, type”.
We believe that the craft of writing is a “noble sort” or rather a noble endeavor worthy of every praise.
Thereby, the name of our publication was chosen accordingly – Adelaide.
The Adelaide Literary Magazine is an independent international monthly publication, based in New York (US), and Lisbon (Portugal). Founded by Stevan V. Nikolic and Adelaide Franco Nikolic in 2015, the magazine’s aim is to publish quality poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and photography, as well as interviews, articles, and book reviews, written in English and Portuguese. Most of our content comes from unsolicited submissions.
We publish print, digital, and online editions of our magazine twelve times a year. Online edition is updated continuously. There are no charges for reading the magazine online.
Through our imprint Adelaide Books, we publish novels, memoirs, and collections of short stories, poems, and essays by contributing authors of our magazine. We believe that in doing so, we best fulfill the mission outlined in Adelaide Magazine.
The Adelaide Magazine accepts interviews with both new, emerging, and established Authors. Size limit for written interviews is 5000 words. We also accept video and audio interview files.
Submitting an interview to the Adelaide Literary Magazine is free. If accepted for release, we publish interviews in order we receive them.
The Adelaide Magazine accepts book reviews of literary fiction, poetry, works of translation, and essay collections.
Adelaide Literary Award Anthology is a special issue of the Adelaide Literary Magazine which includes works by winning authors and finalists of our Literary Award Contests.
Submissions
FICTION
Size limit: 5,000 words
We like modern tales with a quality of timelessness: stories with realistic, powerful dialogue and dynamic characters. Please submit one story or excerpt from the larger work, of up to 5,000 words with a brief bio. We do not publish previously published work. The Adelaide Magazine acquires first rights for publication. Upon publication, rights revert to the author.
POETRY
Please submit 2-5 single-spaced poems with a brief bio. We do not publish previously published work and do not accept simultaneous submissions. The Adelaide Magazine acquires first rights for publication. Upon publication, rights revert to the author/artist.
NONFICTION
Please submit one story or excerpt from the larger work, of up to 5,000 words with a brief bio. We’re looking for nonfiction of all varieties, including but not limited to (short) memoir, personal essays, profile/portrait essays, lyric essays, meditative essays, and journalism.
TRANSLATION
Size limit: 5000 words
The Adelaide Magazine welcomes submissions of poetry or fiction translated from a language other than English or Portuguese. We prefer to see the original and translated work; please indicate whether you’ve obtained publishing rights from the author or author’s estate.
BOOK REVIEWS
Size limit: 2,000 words
The Adelaide Magazine accepts book reviews of literary fiction, poetry, works of translation, and essay collections. Please include the publisher’s information and release date of the reviewed title.
INTERVIEWS
The Adelaide Magazine accepts interviews with both new, emerging, and established Authors. Size limit for written interviews is 5000 words. We also accept video and audio interview files for our online issue.
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
Please send up to seven images of your work in JPEG format. We will query you based on the images therein. Artists retain all rights to their work.
Upcoming
Our imprint Adelaide Books created 1st Annual International Children’s Literature and Illustration Award Contest to discover, promote and support the careers of talented young illustrators and children’s books authors from around the world. Entry fee is $20 / free for students. Contest ends on July 19th.
Winners will be announced on October 1st, 2019.
Works by all Finalist will be published in the Adelaide Books Children’s Literature and Illustration Award 2019 Anthology to be released by November 1st, 2019.
The Winner in the Best Children’s Story will receive a Winner Certificate, a copy of the Anthology, will be featured with his/her work and interview published in the December Issue of the Adelaide Literary Magazine, and will receive a publishing contract for his/her children’s book from Adelaide Books LLC.
The Winner in the Best Children’s Illustration will receive a Winner Certificate, a copy of the Anthology, will be featured with his/her work and interview in the December Issue of the Adelaide Literary Magazine, and will receive a contract offer to illustrate one of the children’s books published by Adelaide Books LLC.
Information
Editors Name Stevan V. Nikolic
Print publication? Yes
Circulation 1200 printed edition/issue and over 1000 daily visits to online edition
Do you take online submissions? Yes
Submission Guidelines URL
Approx. Response Time?
How often do you publish? Monthly
Year Founded? 2015
Do you pay?
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I am one of your published poets! I kept emailing you to say 2 of the selected poems have been published elsewhere! But you ignored. And you used the WRONG PHOTO for me.