Reading Period is OPEN
Reading period begins Jan. 1 and ends June 1
Jelly Bucket is published annually by the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Eastern Kentucky University. Founded in 2009, Jelly Bucket features established and new writers. We accept works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. An eight-page color insert in each issue is dedicated to visual art that incorporates text and/or features an aspect of the book arts.
Purchase a Copy
To order, please send a check made payable to EKU Dept. of English for $12 to: Jelly Bucket, 467 Case Annex, 521 Lancaster Ave., Richmond, KY 40475.
Submitting Your Work
Only one submission per person per reading period. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your submitted work is accepted elsewhere. Contact information should include name, address, phone number, and e-mail address (please include this information on the first page of your manuscript). No previously published work, please. We define previously published work as a piece published in another journal, either paper or electronic in a book or chapbook—even a self-published one—or one that is currently online in a public blog or within a public forum.
Fiction
Please limit word count to 7,500. For short fiction (less than 1,000 words), up to 3 pieces may be submitted. Please double-space all entries.
Poetry
Please send us no more than five (5) poems at a time. One (1) poem per page. Format poems on the page as you would have them printed.
Nonfiction
Non-Fiction pieces of up to 7,500 words are welcome. Please double-space all entries.
Text as Art
Each issue features a text-as-art/book arts project(s). Project images can involve any media, but must incorporate text or font design, calligraphy, tattoos, book design, crossword puzzles, or other aspects of text as art or the book arts. You may query first, send us a CD, direct us to a web site to review your work, or use this form to submit low-res samples of your project.