Regular Issues (Biannual)
Submissions that are sent without following the submission guidelines will be deleted unread.
April 2024 Issue Submission
CLOSED
Please do not send any emails containing work for regular issues now. We will not respond.
What are we looking for?
We want your bittersweet wins and the losses you’re thankful for. Show us hope. Give us a glimpse of your faith and your spirituality. Tell us why you live. Tell us of the things that keep you sane. We want your dreams. Comfort us. Embrace us. Assure us we’re not alone. Shine a light on forgotten places and things. Give us your nostalgia. Make us laugh. Break our hearts. Remind us to breathe. Remind us to love.
We want the things that keep you up at night. Tell us why you’re scared of yourself. Smack us in the face. Make us wince. Horrify us. Give us your insanity. Scream. Rebel. Be weird. Share your darkness. Tell us of your addictions. Show us your transgressions, your blasphemy. Give us misery. Give us satire. Cast us into your hell.
Please read our publication/editorial ethics in the FAQ section and make a note of what we will not consider. For additional insight into our editorial process, read our SQF interview.
What genres do we consider?
We welcome all forms and styles, including translations, in the below genres.
· Micro Prose: 1-3 pieces of upto 400 words each
· Flash Fiction, CNF: 1 piece of upto 1000 words
· Short Fiction, CNF: 1 piece of upto 2500 words
· Essays on Literature: 1 piece of upto 2000 words
· Poetry: 1-5 pieces of under 50 lines each
· Play, Film Script: 1 piece of upto 2500 words
· Art, Photography, Mixed Media: 1-10 pieces with artist statement
· Comics, Cartoons: 1-3 pieces
For further clarification, please check FAQ, or contact us via email or social media DM.
How and Where to Submit?
To be updated later. Please do not send any emails containing work for regular issues now. We will not respond.
Cover Letter Checklist
· Short and crisp cover letter. ‘Dear Editors’ is fine.
· No need to introduce/summarise your work unless you want to share relevant info.
· We don’t require CW/TW but you’re welcome to include them.
· No contributor bios, please. We will solicit bios and photos upon acceptance.
· Please mention if it is a simultaneous or exclusive submission.
· If it is a reprint [check FAQ to see if your reprint is eligible], please include details of previous publication.
· If it is a translation, please include the original work, author’s permission and email. Or mention if the work is in public domain.
Submission Format
· Please put your work in the email body.
o We prefer any readable serif font, no paragraph indents, left-aligned, and references instead of footnotes, if any.
o For work with special formatting, please include a PDF too.
· If it is difficult/not feasible to paste your work in the email body,
o Send us a doc/docx file (no PDFs, please).
o Your file name should be Your Name_Genre (eg: Jane Wild_Poetry).
o We prefer 12-pt, single-spaced, any readable serif font, no paragraph indents, left-aligned, and references instead of footnotes, if any.
o For work with special formatting, please send a PDF too.
· Images should be attached as jpg/jpeg/png files. If there is any artist statement, please put that in the email body.
For further clarification, please check FAQ, or contact us via email or social media DM.
F.A.Q.
Submission deadline: We recommend submitting as early as you can once we begin reading for a regular issue, for we tend to close when we have had ample submissions.
Strictness on Word Limits: For prose works (fiction, CNF, plays), we won’t mind you going a little over the word limit. We also publish excerpts from longer works.
Multiple Submissions: No, please submit in any one category at a time.
Resubmissions: Not unless requested.
Sim-subs: Yes, just let us know upon acceptance elsewhere & withdraw. However, if we have accepted and you’ve agreed, please don’t withdraw or request us to replace already accepted work with another work.
Reprints: No unsolicited reprints. If you would like to send us work previously published in defunct magazines, meaning they’re no longer on the internet, you can.
Response Time: Within a month (often sooner, but can vary). Feel free to query after a month has passed.
Submission Fees: No.
Payment: We wish we could.
Rights:
· Copyright of the work remains with the contributor.
· We ask for First Electronic Publication Rights and credits when your work is republished.
· We also ask for Archival Rights on our website indefinitely.
· If we ever plan an anthology from the work published in our magazine, we’ll request permission from the contributor.
· We nominate our contributors for awards such as the Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions etc.
Our Editorial/Publication Ethics:
· We have a strict policy against plagiarism and work deliberately intended to offend any person or group. Upon receiving such submissions, we reserve the right to ban you permanently from submitting to our magazine.
· We’re sure AI is helpful in many ways but this space is about original creativity and so we won’t publish AI-generated work.
· Our readers are (hopefully) mature adults. Eroticism/sensuality in literature and art is wonderful, but we will reject pornographic work.
· Hit us with experimental themes, and difficult subject matters. As such, your work may be political but we don’t want to be preached at.
· While we love work that brings forth your culture, we don’t want religious work intended to proselytize.
For further clarification, please contact us via email or social media DM.