Hitch accepts electronic submissions through our online submissions manager each year in September.

• We’re looking for manuscripts between 18-20 pages. Submissions may take the form of poetry, fiction, drama, or creative nonfiction translated into English (or surprise us–we welcome experiments and hybridity). We also consider original multilingual texts (think Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Reyes). We open for submissions each year in September.
• We are equally committed to publishing the work of new and established translators and writers. 
• When submitting, you may want to consider how the size and shape of Hitch (5.5″-wide pages) might impact individual pieces or lines of poems.
• Up to 75% of your manuscript may be previously published, but at least 25% must not be published or under contract at the time of acceptance.
• At the beginning of your manuscript document, include a title page with your contact information, a table of contents, and acknowledgements (if needed), and up to one page at most with a biography of the author and the translator. Please note that we require translators to submit a letter of consent from the original author or the author’s estate (or proof that the work is in the public domain). None of these count toward the length of the manuscript.
• Submit your work online, and you will be able to log in and check the status of your submission at any time. Because we are a small, all-volunteer operation, reading times for submissions may vary. A minimum of 90 days will pass before we’ve assembled a long list of potential manuscripts to consider. Typically, final results will be announced after six months.
• While we’re fine with simultaneous submissions, we do expect a heads-up should the manuscript be accepted elsewhere.
• A note about AI. Please don’t send us work generated or meaningfully edited by a large language model. That rule applies to both the translation and the original. We might make rare exceptions for texts explicitly about machine translation. We can’t enforce this policy, of course, but we ask translators to respect our time and send AI-assisted work elsewhere.