Submissions for Volume 23 are now CLOSED!

Submissions will for Thread Magazine's Environmental Edition will open in Spring 2026.

If you submitted to The Winter Edition or Volume 23, we encourage you to submit to Volume 24 in Spring 2026 as well. 

Thread Magazine is the University of South Florida's online and print undergraduate literary and arts journal, run by students for students, dedicated to showcasing the diverse voices of the USF undergraduate community.

Our volumes are published twice annually, once in Fall, and once in the Spring. We will send out decisions for Volume 23 by Dec. 12th, 2025. 

Before sending in your work, we kindly ask you to review our submission guidelines carefully, which can be found on our website. Submissions that fail to follow guidelines will not be accepted.

Terms & Conditions:

By submitting to our print magazine, you are agreeing to allow your work to be subjected to minor editing (line level/grammar) upon acceptance if needed. We retain First Serial Rights, meaning your work must be previously unpublished and not have appeared in its entirety online or in print in another publication, but personal social media/blogs are fine. All rights revert back to you after publication. We kindly ask that if your work is republished elsewhere that it is credited as having first appeared in Thread Magazine. We retain nonexclusive archival rights, meaning your work can be found on our website indefinitely.

Email threadmagazineusf@gmail.com with any questions.