Open Letters invites submissions for a wide variety of writing on the arts, from staple subjects such as books, movies, and music to fields as specialized and diverse as medicine, cooking, or video games. See our mission statement on the masthead page to get a sense of our aesthetic aims. Our publishing criteria have little to do with subject matter and everything to do with the quality of the writing. We like crafted work that is both rigorously researched and accessible to any thoughtful reader—work that treats the understanding of art as a universal pursuit, and as a universal pleasure.

We’re also accepting poetry submissions (please send no more than three poems) and we’re looking for photographers and artists to contribute work for display on our main page. We’re not yet publishing fiction. Finally, we can’t, at the moment, pay our contributors.

Send your submissions or queries to openlettersmonthly [at] gmail.com. Give us a sense of what you’re proposing in the subject line of the email. We’ll try to get back to you as soon as we can.

Publishers: please send any and all books, recordings, catalogs, and announcements to the address below. Writers & Artists: we’ll be happy to consider chapbooks, self-published stuff, and any curiosities you’d like to share. Please include a note about what you’re sending and how to get in touch with you. We’re at:

Open Letters
P.O. Box 15546
Boston, MA 02215