Drama
Flyway Drama Guidelines:
- Submitted scripts must fit Flyway’s mission, exploring the intersection of human experience and the environment, interpreted broadly.
- We are interested in plays that are surprising, moving, and energizing, and that hold place, ecology, or science as integral to the story.
- Scripts may be up to 15 pages in standard format. This does not include title or dramatis personae pages.
- Please format your script in a Dramatist Guild approved format, unless there is a clear reason not to. For examples see Traditional Play Format and Modern Play Format.
- Submitted scripts must be unpublished, but may have had readings or productions.
- Your cover letter should include a brief production history (if the play has been produced) and a 50-75 word publication ready bio.
- Submissions will close on March 31st or when we receive 100 scripts.
ABOUT US
Based out of Iowa State University, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment is an online journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short scripts, and visual art that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment-- whether rural, urban, or suburban; whether built or wild--and all its social and political implications.
In addition to publishing issues of literary writing, Flyway also welcomes submissions from visual artists. We accept submissions according to the following windows of time:
READING PERIODS | 2024 - 2025
- Our Winter/Spring 2025 issue reading period is 9/1/24 – 10/15/24.
- Our Fall 2025 issue reading period is 2/1/25 – 3/17/25.
- We accept visual art and drama submissions year-round.
For our general submissions, we charge a nominal fee of $3 per submission.
Over the years, Flyway has sponsored various writing awards, such as the Iowa Sweet Corn Prize in Fiction and Poetry, and the Notes from the Field Nonfiction Prize. For the 2023-2024 academic year, we do not anticipate sponsoring any literary prizes.
We are interested in work that explores the intersection of human experience and the environment, broadly interpreted: work that focuses on ecology, natural history, science and the environmental imagination, certainly, but also work that focuses on place, on natural and built environments, and on the ways that people interact with their environments. We are looking for work that surprises, moves, haunts, or affects the reader in some significant way.
We encourage and welcome submissions from diverse voices and under-represented populations, including--but not limited to--international authors, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those with disabilities, and the elderly. Authors of all walks of life should feel encouraged to send us stories, poems, essays, and art celebrating the diverse characters and settings all around us.
We look forward to reading your work!