Read your work at the Jacaranda Salon!
Jacaranda Journal hosts a reoccurring live reading event for writers to read their works of short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to an audience of enthusiastic peers.
Please read our submission guidelines below before submitting your work.
Salon submission guidelines
Before submitting, please take a moment to consider the following submission requirements. Jacaranda accepts works of fiction and non-fiction (up to 1,000 words in length), and poetry (up to 4 poems of no more than 50 lines each) from Australian writers.
We ask that written submissions be formatted in the following way:
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12 pt Times New Roman (or similar), double-spaced.
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docx. or pdf.
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Labelled with name and type (e.g. JaneDoe_Poetry OR JohnDoe_Fiction).
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Please flag content where necessary.
Anyone can submit for multiple Jacaranda Salons, however, you cannot submit more than two times consecutively. Upon submitting for two salons in a row, a mandatory non-submission period of at least one salon is required before your salon submissions will be considered again.
Do not submit unless you are able to attend the next Salon event in Magandjin/Meanjin/Brisbane, Queensland.
AI guidelines
AI is strictly prohibited.
For all submissions, we utilise AI detection rubrics.