AI Submission Policies for Literary Magazines and Writing Contests

"AI-generated or AI-adjusted submissions are never tolerated."

"We will not consider any submissions written, developed, or assisted by these tools. Attempting to submit these works may result in being banned from submitting works in the future."

"Work written with AI in any form or at any stage is NOT acceptable at Apex."

"Apex Magazine does not accept submissions of any kind that were written, developed or assisted by tools such as ChatGPT."

"We will not consider any submissions written, developed, or assisted by these tools. Attempting to submit these works may result in being banned from submitting works in the future."

"Submissions must not be originated, written or edited by artificial intelligence."

"Submissions must not be originated, written, edited or translated by artificial intelligence."

"Spell check, basic grammar check, and AI-generated prompts that you then wrote your own story from are fine, but we are not interested in any story where AI apps or generators wrote or drafted or edited any portion of its text."

"Brevity does not accept submissions of AI-generated work, which includes writing that was partially created with or assisted by LLM technology."

"AI must not be used for the creative development, drafting, rewriting, editing, paraphrasing or summarising of an entry."

"Entries generated or co-created using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including but not limited to text generators or image creators, are strictly prohibited and will be disqualified."

"We will not consider any submissions translated, written, developed, or assisted by these tools. Attempting to submit these works may result in being banned from submitting works in the future."

"Do not submit AI-generated or AI-assisted work."

"AI-generated or -assisted submissions will be automatically disqualified."

"CRAFT does not consider or review AI-generated work. Submissions utilizing AI tools will be automatically declined."

"We will not accept or publish works generated or modified with artificial intelligence."

"If we determine AI was utilized in our sole discretion, it will result in disqualification."

"We do not accept work that was written, developed or assisted in any capacity by artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT."

"Foglifter Journal does not accept any work written, edited, or revised by generative AI, nor will we work with any contributor who uses AI for any creative purpose."

"Submissions utilizing AI tools will be automatically declined."

"A statement that you did not use AI in any way, shape, or form in writing your submission."

"AI is not accepted."

"We will not accept any submission or pitch written or edited using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT."

"Valnet is committed to producing premium content, and we therefore require all our contributors to adhere to our Editorial Standards, including a prohibition on using Artificial Intelligence."

"I confirm that my submission is not AI generated, nor has AI been used in any part of the creative process."

"Work created, guided, or revised using generative AI intervention or prompts is not welcome or accepted by Ninth Letter."

"Palette Poetry does not consider or review AI-generated work. Submissions utilizing AI tools will be automatically declined."

"Freelancers agree that they will not use generative AI in any part of the creation, assembly, revision, or any other contribution to or in their work unless they have requested advance permission in writing from Ravenous, and Ravenous has expressly granted such permission in writing."

"So, we want to be clear that we only publish writing created entirely by humans."

"We do not accept any work created or altered by generative artificial intelligence programs such as, but not limited to Midjourney, Dall-E, Grok, and ChatGPT."

"We do not accept submissions created by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence."

"AI must not be used for the creative development, drafting, rewriting, editing, paraphrasing or summarising of an entry."

"AI must not be used for the creative development, drafting, rewriting, editing, paraphrasing or summarising of an entry."

"AI must not be used for the creative development, drafting, rewriting, editing, paraphrasing or summarising of an entry."

"We do not accept entries that have used generative artificial intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs) and related tools as part of their creation."

"We do not accept or publish editorial content with text generated or edited by AI."

"We do not accept submissions created by or with the assistance of AI at any step in the process."

"Do not under any circumstances submit something created – or assisted by – AI."

"Please note that Uncanny Magazine does not accept any submissions written with artificial intelligence or similar technologies."

"No AI-generated text."

"Authors will be banned from the program if we detect AI drafts."

"We do not accept AI-generated submissions."

"The Baltimore Review does not accept work that is generated in whole or in part by Artificial Intelligence (AI)."

"Anyone who uses AI to write something they submit to us is a loser, and we want nothing to do with them."

"In keeping with our mission statement, we do not consider or publish material generated using AI or LLMs."

"No AI-generated material, please."

"We cannot accept or pay for material that has been copied, paraphrased, translated, or generated from existing online sources, including AI tools."

"We get it, tools like ChatGPT are useful for brainstorming or outlining. But when it comes to the actual writing, we ask that you be the author."

"We do not accept work produced via generative AI"

"You are also certifying that your work is the product of human intelligence and not the result of a prompt you loaded into an AI program or some other form of plagiarism robot."

"We will not consider pitches (or any other copy) generated by artificial intelligence."

"AI-generated stories will not be accepted for submission."

"We currently do not accept work from artificial intelligence (“AI”) generators or similar."

"Any entries found to be AI-generated will be disqualified."

"you did not use AI tools to draft or generate the work in any way."

"Work generated by AI will be automatically disqualified."

"The poem must not be generated by artificial intelligence."

"Hippocampus Magazine is rooted in human truth and authenticity; we do not publish creative work that has used generative AI."

"Please do not use LLMs to write either for us."

"In regard to writing, we don’t accept AI-written stories (and use AI checkers when necessary)."

"Our editorial guidelines prohibit using generative AI to draft articles or parts of articles."

"Please do not send us AI-generated work; at present, we are only considering original work written by humans."

"We expect our contributors to engage honestly with their own creative minds and not to outsource their writing, translating, and thinking to generative AI."

"We do not accept work generated by LLM/AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude."

"The Oxford American does not accept or review submissions created with the use of generative AI."

"Pitches generated by AI will be automatically declined without response."

"Use of AI to write, illustrate or otherwise produce final work is prohibited without the prior approval of the commissioning editor."

"Please note that we DO NOT accept any kind of Ai/LLM-generated work, and we also ask you don’t use such tools to write your cover letter."

"Articles formed of AI-generated content, or which have been produced through the use of machine translation are not permitted and will be treated as plagiarism."

"Rattle does not accept work that includes machine-generated text."

"Rattle does not accept work that includes machine-generated text."

"Generative AI tools must not be used to write, generate or substantially rewrite any part of an entry."

"Therefore, we do not accept articles or content entirely generated by AI systems."

"Stories translated or written using LLMs/AI."

"The Baltimore Review does not accept work that is generated in whole or in part by Artificial Intelligence (AI)."

"WE DO NOT ACCEPT AI GENERATED WRITING IN WHOLE OR IN PART."

"We do not accept AI-generated work."

"The Journal does not accept work generated by AI."

"AI-generated work is prohibited."

"However, we don’t accept AI-generated content, defined as text created by an AI-based tool."

"We do NOT buy AI articles, and we do not respond to query letters that were written using AI."

"We require you to inform us of AI-generated content (text, images, or translations) when you publish a new book or make edits to and republish an existing book through KDP."

"All participants must clearly declare any AI assistance in their submission."

"We require that any story incorporating AI assistance be clearly labeled as such."

"to please tag your story as “AI-assisted”."

"If you used AI to write/create your piece, you must disclose this fact in your cover letter."

"If artificial intelligence has been used to generate any portion of your submission, you must disclose your usage in specific detail within the piece and in your cover letter."

"you must label it using the AI-generated content tag during the submission process."

"AI can be used to generate initial ideas, to critique and suggest ideas for you to improve your work, and for final proofing."

"While we don’t require you to disclose if you used AI to support your research or writing process, you are responsible for guaranteeing that any work submitted is original"

"AI tools may assist with ideation and background research, but authors must verify all information."

"AI is fine to use as a tool to assist you in writing or editing content, but it should not constitute the bulk of your writing."