Submissions

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Content guidelines:

We don’t like a lot of rules, but we do have some guidelines that will make this process a little more streamlined and easier for us to pull together. Please read on.

We aren’t the grammar police. We do not wish to reject a submission based on errors in grammar or punctuation, so long as a point is being made. That said, if you would like proof reading & corrections, we operate on a first come first served basis and will accommodate requests as time allows (you could ask your friends to help with this first before submitting).

Racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, ableist, or other works targeting specific groups of people will not be accepted. We understand artistic freedom and respect groups’ rights to reclaim and repurpose words that have been meant to hurt and oppress them, but bigotry will not be admissible.

Please add content warnings to your submissions if you feel it is appropriate! We accept work that is 18+, which means it might be graphic in nature, sexual, violent or traumatic to some. Context is everything! Use your best judgement.
(Example – CW: This poem contains references to sexual assault & homophobic slurs.)

Formatting:

Visual art/images: our print pages are 5.5″ width x 8.5″ height, with approximately .25″ margins. We only print in black & white. Website is displayed in full color. Keep this in mind as you make your submissions.

• Please limit to no more than four image submissions, preferably in .jpeg format (more images allowable if sending both color and b/w edits).
• If you have trouble resizing/reformatting images, please reach out to us. A good, free, online image editor to use is: Photopea.com
• If submitting multiple files, it is extremely helpful if you name your files with the image title and your name,
  (ex: TitleofArt_JaneDoe.jpg – or some variation of that).

Written submissions: Please limit to no more than 3500 words for fiction and no more than 4 poems. We also accept nonfiction and articles of higher word counts on a case-by-case basis. For ease of formatting, put document pages into landscape format with two columns (this is especially helpful for poem layouts). Traditionally, we use Arial 10pt font. Don’t send written work as an image file (.docx or google docs preferred).