Our January 2024 submissions window is now closed. We received approximately 1500 pieces of work to review, and we are moving as quickly as we can.
If you submitted and haven’t yet received a response, you will receive one no later than February 28. If you need to reach us in the meantime to withdraw your piece or you have a question, you can drop us a note at 34orchardjournal@gmail.com.
I’m THRILLED to announce that 34 Orchard got lucky today–we are Duotrope’s featured listing (Duotrope, for those of you who don’t know, is a website where writers can search for markets to submit their work). For just TODAY ONLY (1/6/24), you can see our awesomeness on Duotrope’s front page here: https://duotrope.com/ and their X(Twitter) feed here: https://twitter.com/Duotrope
In the meantime–if you’re in the Northeast, snow is afoot! Need some reading material? Check out our latest issue, Issue #8, packed with ghost stories here: https://34orchard.com/issue-8/. Happy weekend!
As we welcome 2024, we also welcome something very special: 34 Orchard‘s 5th anniversary. That’s right! It’s hard to believe, but four amazing years–and eight issues–have flown by already. Our Autumn 2024 issue will be our 10th.
34 Orchard’s Spring 2024 submissions window is now open! We will only be open from January 1 – 15, 2024, so if you’re planning on submitting, please keep in mind that anything after January 15, 2024, will be deleted unread (and yes, we adjust for all worldwide time zones. So that’s after January 15 at 11:59pm wherever you are).
Need to do a quick final polish on your piece? Check out our Manuscript Final Polish checklist here: https://34orchard.com/2022/06/18/sixty-second-sub…polish-checklist/ It’s a JPEG, so you can save the list and keep it handy or print it to use for all of your subs in 2024. Want other great submissions tips you can use anywhere? Check out our blog and just scroll on back.
Please refer to our guidelines for information on how to submit. Check that out here at https://34orchard.com/guidelines/, and we look forward to reading your work!
A clown questions his actions during the Hartford Circus Fire, a woman spends hours calling for the missing, and a man’s unsettled conflict with his brother rents his world in two. A dog mommy may fail at making the ultimate choice and an uncertain slaughterhouse worker may end up without one. In Issue 8, twenty-four artists ponder the dangers in unanswered questions, and the effects on us when things are left unresolved.
The downloadable PDF is designed so that it can be printed on double-sided paper for easy reading like a print magazine. As always, the issue is free, but there is a donation link should you choose to contribute.
If you like what you’ve read, spread the word!
We’re thrilled to announce 34 Orchard’s Autumn 2023 issue’s Table of Contents!
Teeming with unreliably-narrated ghost stories, Issue 8 includes many burgeoning and experienced voices as well as special surprises. We’re privileged to bring you a brand new tale by Edgar Allan Poe Award winner Lynne Barrett, whose stories have been featured in more fine anthologies and journals than we can count and has also won the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short Story (we can’t do her accomplishments justice in this small space). And in a piercing piece of creative nonfiction penned exclusively for our readers, real-life ghost hunter L.E. Daniels—also an excellent short story writer—shares a tactile encounter with tormented souls in the ruins of Pompeii.
What’s been left unresolved for you? As the days get shorter and 2023 trundles toward its close, Issue 8 may be just what you need to remind you that you are not alone.
Cover Art: A Story to Tell – Trisha J. Wooldridge
The Solitary Man – Leen Raats
Weary Willie – Bethany Bruno
Missing – Sarah Cannavo
Forever Plastic Playhouses – Patrick Malka
Falling – Julie Sevens
Breaking Water – Nancy Byrne Iannucci
Split – Sam Rebelein
Adultery in Modern Massachusetts – Lynne Barrett
Cleansing Me of You – Deborah L. Davitt
Perfect Quiet – Kathleen Smith
The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa – Wailana Kalama
Do I Just Let the Cancer Take You? – Lynne Schmidt
Keepsakes and Mementos Mori – Cormack Baldwin
Who Else Can See? – Megan Wildhood
Fog Over Jennings Beach – Jackson Kuhl
Beneath the Ice – Harrison Demchick
The Thing Under the Sink – Liam Hogan
Famine – Melanie Simutis
The Millstones on That Path – Robert Mayette
East St., Providence, RI – Joshua Rex
Weird Witness – L.E. Daniels
Only the Shape – Anj Baker
No Winter Maintenance – Susan R. Morritt
You’ll be able to download Issue 8 right from our Issues page here on November 10, 2023!
Our Autumn 2023 submissions window is now closed. We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer!
If you haven’t yet received a response from us, please note that our responses will be completed and sent out no later than August 31, 2023. If you need to reach us before then to withdraw your piece or for other questions, drop us an email to 34orchardjournal@gmail.com.
34 Orchard is now considering work for our Autumn 2023 issue! We will only be open from July 1 – 15, 2023, so if you’re planning on submitting, please keep in mind that anything after July 15, 2023, will be deleted unread (and yes, we adjust for all worldwide time zones. So that’s after July 15 at 11:59pm wherever you are).
Please refer to our guidelines for information on how to submit. Check that out here at https://34orchard.com/guidelines/, and we look forward to reading your work!
Well-meaning Wyoming homeowners consider a mercy kill. A flute’s music heals in questionable ways and a lonely practitioner upsets the balance of the universe. An academic’s ego gets the better of him, a desperate OCD sufferer goes to extremes, and the slave of a toxic love affair ends things in a way that jilts even her. In Issue 7, twenty-two artists ruminate on the things we break.
The downloadable PDF is designed so that it can be printed on double-sided paper for easy reading like a print magazine. As always, the issue is free, but there is a donation link should you choose to contribute.
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Heralding the coming of spring and the concept of the fresh start, Issue 7 has another winner from Nigeria’s Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí (Issue 1’s “Christmas Chicken,” about which we STILL get mail!) and a few other 34O alums, as well as work by others familiar and brand-new.
Plunging into the visceral rip tides of lost love, medieval history, personal agency, folklore, witchcraft, grief, motherhood, and so much more—and rendered in everything from magical realism to soft science fiction, horror, and literary—there’s something for every taste!
Here’s what awaits:
Cover Art: Optic Nerve – Page Sonnet Sullivan
An Old Romantic – Mark Towse
Little Monster – Elin Olausson
The Doe – Brandon McQuade
Wildfire – Alexandra Provins
The Flute – Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí
The Perimeter of Others – Marie-Andrée Auclair
Simulacrum Vehemens – Remo Macartney
Twenty Birthdays with You – Karen Cline-Tardiff
Penelope Learns to Weave a Double Helix – Shelly Jones
The Squealing – McLeod Logue
Where’s Lucy? – W.T. Paterson
The Procedure – Jeff Adams
poisoned earth – Corey Niles
There Is No Tomorrow – David H. West
The Triple G – Gregory Jeffers
I Once Worked There – Christian Hanz Lozada
The Last Day – Elaine Pascale
The Choice – Jenna Moquin
With the Turbulent Flow … – Angi Shearstone
The Shrine of Saint Amandus – Rex Burrows
How to Make a Vase – Kieran Thompson
You’ll be able to download Issue 7 right from our Issues page here on April 25, 2023!
If you enjoyed Issue 4 (Autumn 2021)’s cover art—Walter H. Von Egidy’s The Ghosts of the Fair—then you’ll enjoy this post, where you’ll get to see some of his other art.
His 34 Orchard bio:
Walter H. Von Egidy (Cover Art/The Ghost of the Fair) is an American artist, painter and film maker known for his Super 8 photoplays and enamel/oil paintings.
He has had his work exhibited at Gallery 13, The Burnham Library, Housatonic Art League and the White Silo. He has seven finished portrait commissions and private and public collections including a portrait of composer Franz Waxman at Byrd Library, Syracuse University. His work has won first place at various film festivals including the United States Super 8 Film Festival at Rutgers University. He is the owner of New Milford Sign Shop and Von’s Studio. Most recently, his painting “Saturday Night in the Caverns” was chosen as the cover for writer Bob Deakin’s collection, Unruly Mix (Tales of Music, Artists, Posers and Misfits. You can see more of Walter’s work and contact him at www.walterhvonegidy.com.
Every March, Von Egidy holds an exhibit of his works—many of them new—at the Burnham Library in Bridgewater, Connecticut. It’s always a stellar event, with many people we know from town as well as a chance to enjoy Walter’s work up close. One thing about his art—it’s Dali-esque, it’s colorful, and there’s always a good bet you’ll find a piece that speaks to you.
Continue reading “Enjoy Issue 4’s cover? Take a gander at the artist’s other work!”
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