Dear you, you dearest breathless wonders: We’re currently building our winter issue. Submissions for Mag3.14 will reopen in February.

WE SEEK THE
FOLLOWING:

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art—artwork, photography, collage—humor, and the wildly unclassifiable. The prose word limit is 1500. For poetry, submit 1-3 pieces. For visual art, submit 2-4 pieces. We strongly favor work with depth and unique insight that explores the human condition and leans toward unusual, possibly urgent, and slightly unhinged. Life is absurd, and we like being moved in unexpected ways by its absurdity. View our first issue

Humor is all about, well, humor. We’re looking for terrible pitches, delightful fangirl 4th-grade book reports, and hand-drawn pie charts. More on humor subs

PUB BASICS

We publish a themed issue four times a year. We’re trying something new for our next issue and are letting a theme naturally emerge from the final selections. In other words, just send us your best beauties, and don’t worry about matching a pre-determined topic.

We only accept submissions through Submittable, and submissions are generally open unless we’re between issues or have reached our capacity, emotionally and Submittably. (Note: Poetry subs tend to fill quickly.)

We cannot offer payment at this time, but we hope to in 2025. We never charge a submission/reading fee. Only submit to one category per reading period.

Submissions must be previously unpublished, original, and from the original creator. (Shared on your personal social media or personal blog is fine. We don’t consider this as a publication.) We only accept stories written by corporeal humans. We don’t consider AI-written stories. For artwork, we just ask that it not be previously published online or in a major print publication.

Our current response time is max three months.

RIGHTS AND
RELEASES

Your work belongs to you! We will publish, lovingly promote, and maintain a copy online. If your submission is later published elsewhere, please mention its home on Magpie Zine.

P.S.

No-no’s: racist, queerphobic, transphobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, fascist, exploitative, ableist, or appropriation of experiences and communities that aren’t your own. We also refrain from publishing creators whose work may not espouse these views but who personally do. We reserve the right to remove your work, without notice, from our site if we become aware of cringey behavior, plagiarism, or other stipulations not enumerated here.

If we have already published your work, please wait three issues before sending us more.

If a piece was previously declined, please do not resubmit it unless encouraged.