Editors get a calm, focused review workflow. Writers get a clean place to send their best work. Galley is the editorial platform for literary journals that take reading seriously.
How it works
Up and running in minutes.
Create your journal
Sign up free and set up your organization in under a minute.
Open a call
Define your reading period, categories, and submission guidelines.
Share the link
Writers submit through your public page. No account required.
Read and decide
Review in a focused reading view. Score, comment, and decide as a team.
For editors
Your editorial command center.
Every submission, every status, every reviewer — in one place. Filter by call, scan by status, and move through your queue with keyboard shortcuts. The inbox is where editorial decisions happen.
The Weight of Small Hours
Borderlands
After the Orchard
What the River Kept
Small Domestic Gods
| Select all submissions | Reviewers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Weight of Small Hours | Clara Voss | Received | Spring 2026 | — | ||
| Borderlands | Mateo Reyes | Received | Spring 2026 | — | ||
| After the Orchard | Saoirse Brennan | Received | Spring 2026 | — | ||
| What the River Kept | James Okafor | Received | Flash Fiction Prize | — | ||
| Small Domestic Gods | Lena Park | Received | Spring 2026 | — |
For writers
Send your work to readers, not a system.
Submitting to a journal should feel like what it is: putting your writing in front of people who care about it. Galley keeps the submission process simple and transparent.
Category
Manuscript
the-weight-of-small-hours.docx
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Cover letter
Dear editors, I'm submitting a sequence of four poems exploring domestic spaces and the residue of daily life...
Upload your manuscript. Add a cover letter if the journal asks for one. Submit. Track your status. That's it.
No account creation maze. No cluttered portal. No reading fees hidden behind three clicks.
Your work stays private
Unpublished manuscripts are only visible to the journal's editorial team. No public indexing. No third-party access.
Everything a journal needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Open calls
Create reading periods with deadlines, categories, and guidelines. Share a clean public page that writers can submit through directly.
Review workflow
Assign submissions to readers. Score, comment, and discuss — then make decisions as a team.
Team management
Invite editors and reviewers. Control who sees what. Coordinate without endless email threads.
Submission tracking
Writers see where their work stands. Editors see the full pipeline. Everyone stays informed.
Email submissions
Accept submissions via a dedicated inbox. Galley parses the email and adds it to your inbox automatically.
Clean typography
Manuscripts render in a reading-friendly layout. Because the words matter more than the interface.
Built for small journals with serious editorial standards.
Galley is for the literary magazines that run on dedication, taste, and a small team of readers who care deeply about the work. Whether you publish quarterly or annually, in print or online, with two editors or twenty — Galley fits the way you already work.
We're a small team too. Galley started because we run a journal ourselves and couldn't find a tool that respected the reading process. So we built one.
Simple, fair pricing.
No per-submission fees. No surprise costs. Free to start, pay when you grow.
Free
For journals just getting started.
- 1 editor
- 1 active call
- 50 submissions / year
Standard
$12.50/mo billed annually
The workhorse tier for independent journals.
- 3 editors, 5 reviewers
- Unlimited calls
- 2,000 submissions / year
Professional
$50/mo billed annually
For established journals with larger teams.
- 10 editors, 25 reviewers
- Unlimited calls & submissions
- 100 GB storage
- Custom domain
Running a university-affiliated journal? Our Department tier is coming soon. Get in touch
Your journal's next reading period starts here.
Set up your journal on Galley in minutes. Start accepting submissions today.