About OxMag
OxMag (or more formally: Oxford Magazine) is a literary & arts magazine edited and published by creative writing MFA students at Miami University. Since our premiere in 1984, our magazine has received Pushcart Prizes for both fiction and poetry and has published authors such as Charles Baxter, William Stafford, Robert Pinsky, Stephen Dixon, Helena Maria Viramontes, Andre Dubus, and Stuart Dybek. Appearing biannually, OxMag is a web-based journal that accepts fiction, poetry, art + new media, and creative nonfiction/essays.
The Golden Ox awards small but mighty prose. We want to read your best flash fiction or micro essays under 1,000 words.
- Please submit a flash fiction story or micro creative nonfiction essay of fewer than 1,000 words.
- Cover letters are not necessary, but a brief reader bio is required (~50 words). Please specify in your cover letter whether your piece is fiction or nonfiction.
- Submissions will be open until May 15th or until we reach our submission cap, whichever comes first. Also note that our submissions will close once we reach 50 total submissions, so be sure to get your submission in early!
- Awards will go to three winners (1st, 2nd, & 3rd place).
We do accept simultaneous submissions, but if your work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw it immediately via Submittable.
We do not accept previously published work. Upon publication, the rights to the poem(s) remain with the writer, though we ask for acknowledgement that the work first appeared in our journal.