Guidelines

• We only accept original material;
• We only accept full pieces — no pitches, please;
• We accept simultaneous subs; please withdraw your piece if it has been accepted elsewhere;
• Please submit pieces in the corresponding form; if a current section is closed for subs and you submit in another section your piece will be rejected without reading it;
• Please note our house style (capitalisation, use of expression marks, lack of indent for paras, etc) –– if accepted, your piece will be edited according to our house style without further consultation.
• Use the allocated space in the form to add a short bio . Please follow this format (in 3rd person): name, relevant work, place of residence, form of contact, if desired — Twitter handle preferred.

  
  

FAQs

• How long do you take to answer? — Please allow 4-12 weeks for an answer (times vary according to the section, and time of the year).
• Do you pay? — We don't. We are a collaborative and not-for-profit project funded solely by the editors, who also volunteer their time for free. We don’t charge for submissions, receive funding or donations, or run ads. In other words: we have no money. And we want to keep it like this: cooperative, voluntary, independent, and outside of the logic of the market / industry. 
• What happens with the rights of my piece? — For anything published on our website © remains solely with you — we just host your piece. You are free to publish your piece anywhere you want after publishing with us, whether it is for commercial reasons or not. We ask that if you publish your piece elsewhere you consider attributing our first publication. You can withdraw your piece from our magazine for whatever reason you want to as well; we would prefer to have it for ever but as it is your piece, this is your call; no need to explain why.
• Do you provide feedback for rejected pieces? — Due to the amount of submissions we receive we aren't in a position to give feedback. And if we were we wouldn't find ourselves comfortable telling you how to write.  
• What should I expect of the publishing process? How will the editors contact me and how can I contact the editors once my piece is accepted? — Once a piece is accepted an editor will contact you and take your piece to publication, working edits with you, if these are required.  Note: In order to provide a comfortable, safe, and transparent working environment, all magazine-related communication between editors and authors is carried out over email only.
• I want to reproduce one of your pieces. What should I do? — contact the author directly as © remains with the author. If the author wants to be contacted they will have included details in their bio. If these details aren't there we can't provide them for you, in order to respect the author's wishes.