Four Tulips wants you to break the rules. We’re looking for fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction about broken rules, but we’re also looking for work that breaks the “rules” or writing. What happens when a sonnet only has 13 lines? How does a story change when the tense shifts halfway through? We are very excited to see the work that can come out of breaking some rules.

The Break the Rules Contest is accepting submissions until June 30th.

The winner and finalists will be published in the online magazine and in a Four Tulips print anthology. Winners receive 5 free copies of the print anthology.

Submission Guidelines 

Prose: Submit no more than one prose piece at a time. Prose formatting should be single-spaced and no longer than 5,000 words. Submit as Microsoft Word or PDF.

Poetry: Submit no more than three poems at a time. Poems should be formatted single-spaced as a Microsoft Word or a PDF file.