Submission Guidelines
WHAT WE WANT
Moonday Mag is a speculative magazine that welcomes all writers and artists, both established and emerging, and especially seeks to uplift marginalized voices. We're interested in things that are surreal, wondrous, macabre, fantastic, curious, strange, otherworldly, moody, chilling, and smart. 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 feel grounded in your radical magic. We want to fall into your world and never find our way back out.
Current themed calls, if any, can be found on our Instagram.
WHAT WE DON'T WANT
We are (usually) not looking for: high fantasy, soft sci-fi, rhyme schemes, or work intended for children.
We are NEVER looking for: gratuitous violence, sexism, racism, or other types of discrimination against a particular group; the exoticization or fetishization of a particular group; Aryanism poorly disguised as futurism; nationalism poorly disguised as utopianism; or plagiarized, freebooted, or AI-assisted work.
Still not sure if your work is a good fit? Check out this interview or this interview with our editor for some more insight.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Email: moondaymag@gmail.com with category subject line (i.e. "nonfiction submission" or "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, social media, 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, along with an optional artist statement
– if your submission is prose: a tagline or very short synopsis to hook readers
Attach 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.
If you would like feedback, please request it in your email and we are happy to provide our thoughts!
DATES & DETAILS
Submissions will be considered for all future issues of the magazine, no matter when submitted.
We welcome simultaneous submissions and reprints, but please be diligent in following the reprint rules of other publications. If you would like to withdraw a piece of, or your entire, submission from our potentials pool, please let us know ASAP by replying to your original submission email.
Submission windows:
– fiction submissions: January 1st - June 30th
– non-fiction, poetry, and art: year-round
– multiple submissions: 1x per 6 months
– response time: 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!
While you're waiting, track your submission! Moonday Mag is proudly listed on Duotrope, Chill Subs, and The Submission Grinder.
P.S. 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! If you'd like to use your saved dollars to help keep the lights on around here, please consider a paid subscription to our otherwise free newsletter, buying a physical issue of the magazine, or grabbing a merch item. All proceeds go directly toward printing costs, site maintenance, and future grants for you.
At this time, we cannot offer compensation to our contributors, 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.
Thank you for trusting Moonday Mag with your work! By letting us support you, you're supporting us.
If your work is accepted, 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.