Plain English summary: Your work stays yours. You keep full copyright. We ask to publish it first online, with a one-month head start before you republish it elsewhere online. We retain the right to keep it on our site indefinitely — but you can publish it anywhere else too. We will never sell your work or use it for AI training. All content is the sole responsibility of the author — Aporia is a publishing platform and accepts no liability for submitted content. Complaints can be sent to hello@aporialit.com.
All rights to submitted work remain with the author at all times. Aporia does not claim ownership of any work published on this platform. By submitting to Aporia, you confirm that you are the sole author and rights-holder of the work submitted.
By submitting your work and agreeing to this policy, you grant Aporia Literary Journal the following limited rights:
If you republish your work elsewhere after the exclusivity period, we ask that you include a credit line noting its first publication in Aporia. The format we recommend:
This is a courtesy request, not a legal obligation. But we appreciate it and it's standard practice across literary publishing.
If your work is submitted but not accepted for publication, no rights are transferred. Aporia will not publish, share, or retain your work in any form. You are free to submit it elsewhere immediately.
If you wish to have your published work removed from aporialit.com, please contact us at hello@aporialit.com. We will consider all such requests in good faith. Please note that due to Aporia's ongoing non-exclusive digital rights, we are not obligated to remove published work, but we will always engage with withdrawal requests respectfully and on a case-by-case basis.
By submitting your work through the Aporia submission form and checking the policy agreement checkbox, you confirm that:
All work submitted to Aporia must be entirely the original work of the submitting author. By submitting, you confirm that:
Aporia takes the authenticity of submitted work seriously. We review all submissions with this in mind and reserve the right to decline work we believe may have been AI-assisted, without being required to provide specific reasons.
If plagiarism or AI-generated content is identified before or after publication, Aporia reserves the right to reject or immediately remove the work without notice, and to permanently bar the submitting author from future submissions.
All work published on aporialit.com is submitted voluntarily by its authors. Aporia Literary Journal functions as a publishing platform and editorial host. The views, opinions, ideas, and content expressed in any piece published on this platform are solely those of the author and do not represent the views or positions of Aporia Literary Journal, its editors, or its affiliates.
Aporia Literary Journal accepts no liability for any claims, damages, losses, or legal proceedings arising from content submitted to or published on this platform, including but not limited to:
By submitting work to Aporia, authors confirm that their work does not infringe upon the rights of any third party and that they assume full legal responsibility for the content they submit. Authors indemnify Aporia Literary Journal against any claims arising from their submitted content.
If you believe that content published on aporialit.com infringes your rights, misrepresents you, or causes harm, please contact us at:
We will acknowledge all complaints within 7 working days and will investigate in good faith. Where a complaint is upheld, we will take appropriate action, which may include editing, annotating, or removing the content in question.
Questions about this policy should be directed to hello@aporialit.com.
This policy was last updated in May 2026 and may be revised at any time. Writers will be notified of material changes via the submission guidelines page.