(Audio)Book Submissions
(currently OPEN)

Golden Walkman seeks and will prioritize work from underrepresented voices. If you belong to a group that is underrepresented, please make a note of this in your cover letter
After three years of hosting an (Audio)Chapbook Contest, we've decided to change things up a bit. We're opening our doors for general book-length submissions during two reading periods: April-June & October-December.

But this magazine is all about audio, so any accepted manuscripts will be produced into (Audio)Books; there will be no physical, printed version. Please keep that in mind before submitting! If you're still interested in submitting, guidelines are below. We look forward to hearing from you!
  • Any genre (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, hybrid) written in English
  • Anything from 30-100 pages
  • Only previously unpublished manuscripts are accepted
  • Simultaneous submissions are encouraged (just withdraw it, so we can celebrate your success)
  • Subject line should contain the words (Audio)BookSub (all one word!)
  • ​Paste cover letter & bio into the body of the email
  • Attach manuscript as a Word document or PDF
  • Send submissions to goldwalkmagATgmailDOTcom
There is no cost for submission, but anything donated will go straight into producing the (Audio)Books and providing payment to our authors

Something to consider that we don't think needs stating (but we will anyway): Donating does NOT increase the likelihood of being accepted 

Past Contests

2018 // Judge - Rebecca Hart Olander // Winner - David Allen Sullivan for Nightjars ​// Finalists (in no particular order) - Ann Thompson for Ordinary Magic, Anna Scotti for Everything Shines Back on You at Rongbuck, and M. Goerig for All That's Relevant Will Be Revealed
2017 // Judge - Simeon Berry // Winner - Eliot Khalil Wilson for ​The Lunatic's Left-Hand Man ​// Finalists (in no particular order) - Nick Hilbourn for Folk Gospels, Taunja Thompson for Strum and Lull, Leonard Kress for Craniotomy, and Jan LaPerle for ​Route 18
We also accept submissions in the following categories:
  • General//Any subject//Year-Round
  • Tapes From The Outside//Work in response to current events//Year-Round​
  • Themed Issues//Work in response to a specific theme determined by a guest editor//Monthly 
  • Dialogue Submissions//Work in response to a specific piece of music//Periodically throughout the year
  • (Audio)Book Submissions//Book-length writing//April-June & October-December
GOLDEN WALKMAN MAGAZINE 2020