The Hopper
Submissions will open for our Spring 2027 issue on November 10. The remainder of November (November 10 to 30) is our fee-free reading period. From December 1 to January 31, submissions will be $3 to cover our essential operating costs. If this fee presents a hardship, please email us at least 3 days before the end of the reading period to receive a fee waiver.
We look forward to reading your work!
The Hopper is an environmental literary magazine. We publish interviews, stories, essays, poetry, and art. We're interested in work that:
- Offers new and different articulations of the human experience in nature. Specifically, nature writing that is psychologically honest about the environmental crisis and the impacts of mechanical modernity.
- Explores place as both the cultural and physical landscapes of an author’s region.
- Uses language to gain new insights into the natural world.
- Uses the natural world to gain new insights into language.
- Questions the division between nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.
- Interrupts the purely human narrative with non-human actors and speakers.
- Includes digital consciousness in the experience of the physical world.
- Investigates environmental injustice and how race, place, and space are all subject to policing.
- Interrogates and/or repurposes cliches for the needs of today.
- Elevates voices that were previously not often heard from in this sub-genre.
- Seeks to question instead of proclaim.
- Is well written and deeply considered as well as feisty and brisk on occasion.
Please only submit once per category per submission window.
We ask for first digital and archival rights. Submit only unpublished work. We accept simultaneous submissions; please let us know promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere.
We encourage submissions from BIPOC, people in the LBGTQ+ community, people with disabilities, immigrants, the incarcerated, women and femmes, non-binary people, and people of other marginalized groups.
If you haven't already, please visit the website of The Hopper, follow us on Instagram at @hopper_mag, and sign up for our monthly newsletter.
Your donation helps us continue putting art and literature out into the world.
We are a small independent literary magazine staffed entirely by volunteers.
Every donation helps and goes directly toward our core operating costs, so that we can continue amplifying the creative work of diverse authors on issues of nature and the environment -- available free of charge for all.
Thank you so much for your generosity and support!
Please note: This form does not accept manuscript submissions.