Submission Guidelines
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
Moonday Mag welcomes all writers and especially hopes to promote emerging and underrepresented voices. We're interested in all things wondrous, fantastic, curious, strange, otherworldly, and chilling. Please send along your short stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art that feels like a dream––something that will keep us up at night, in the best way possible. We want to fall into your world and never find our way back out.
Current themed submission calls: ghost stories (visual art), Halloween (poetry & visual art)
SUBMISSION FEES:
We know how it feels to want your art to be seen, and hosted in a safe space for your audience. Because of this, submission is free! Donations are always welcomed to keep the lights on around here, and physical magazine sales go directly toward printing costs and site maintenance.
READING PERIOD:
As of September 2024, fiction submissions are open January through June, and all other submissions are open 24/7/365. Submissions will be considered for all future issues of the magazine, no matter when submitted. Please only submit 1x per 6 months. We aim to respond within 90 days. If you haven't heard from us in 6 months, chances are we love your work but haven't had the right issue to showcase it yet––feel free to follow up!
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:
Email: moondaymag@gmail.com with subject line: "[fiction/nonfiction/poetry/art] submission"
In the body of your email:
– full name (or pen name)
– under 100 word bio
– links you would like shared if accepted (website, Instagram, email etc)
– if your submission is a reprint, where was it first published?
– if your submission is art: the titles, mediums, sizes, and years of your pieces
– if your submission is prose: a tagline or very short synopsis to hook readers
YOUR work:
– file name: "LastName_FirstName_Title"
– prose: 1 piece under 4,000 words in standard manuscript formatting
– poetry: up to 5 poems not exceeding 10 pages collectively
– art: up to 10 images, 300 DPI preferred
All written work should be sent in an editable file (.doc .docx .rtf etc). We may lightly copyedit, but will never interfere with your stylistic choices.
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS:
We welcome simultaneous submissions and previously published work, but please be diligent in following the reprint rules of other publications. If you would like to withdraw your submission from our potentials pool, please reply to your original submission email and add "submission withdrawal" to the subject line.
COMPENSATION:
Moonday Mag is a not-for-profit operation being run by a small army of volunteer fabulists. So at this time, we cannot offer compensation to our artists, but we do offer a lifelong home for your piece, as well as the opportunity to be nominated for a Pushcart Prize or Best of the Net!
OTHER BITS AND BOBS:
Plagiarism and AI-assisted work... don't do it. Moonday Mag receives first serial rights, first electronic rights or one-time rights for reprints, and non-exclusive electronic archive rights. You consent to us promoting your work on social media, hosting it online, and publishing it in the physical magazine. After publication, all rights revert back to the author. If reprinted, please acknowledge Moonday Mag as the first place of publication. By submitting to Moonday Mag, you accept these terms.
⋆⁺₊ 𓁹 Thank you for your support! We can't wait to see what you come up with... 𓁹 ₊⁺⋆
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