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Submissions are now OPEN until August 31st for our second annual THORNS issue—our fourth issue overall. What does that mean? It means send us the best of your worst. Whatever you thought might be too dark for PETALS last spring—your fucked and your rough. However, please do not send us work about literal flowers or thorns unless it is extremely fitting. This theme, as always, is metaphorical. If your work happens to be thorn on its own merit, we'll know. You'll know. |
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GENERAL GUIDELINES
GENERAL GUIDELINES
Our submissions are open to everyone, everywhere; however, we especially look to publish marginalized creatives. This is not up for debate, and neither are our rejections. The Editors’ decisions are final.
Please also note that though we enjoy the risky and the risqué, we do not want gratuitously violent or sexual fantasies. Neither do we want work that objectively condones/promotes bigotry of any kind. This type of content can get you banned from submitting. (It's always clearly intended to offend. If you're worried about accidentally sending us something like this, you're probably in the clear.)
We reserve the right to reject/take down work from any submitter/contributor we find to have committed hateful, abusive, or plagiarizing behaviour.
Where/how to send your work:
Submissions must be sent in via the appropriate Google Form (all found under their specific categories below). Work sent anywhere else will not be read.
Don’t stress about the formatting—please keep it simple, and with a readable font. Double-spaced prose, single-spaced poetry.
Cover letters are optional, but much appreciated, and if you like, tell us a little bit about yourself while you’re at it. Official bios will be requested upon acceptance; we don’t care so much about your past publications as much as we’d like to know about the writer behind the pages.
You may submit to up to two categories at once (i.e., you can submit a work of fiction and as well as three poems—but not fiction, poetry and CNF). Please, just one submission per category, per reading period.
If we decline your work, please wait until the next reading period to re-submit, unless we personally invite you to submit again earlier.
Regular submissions are free and we’ll get back to you in about a month (but please do not query until 2 months have passed).
Expedited responses & responses with feedback:
However, we also offer special response options in exchange for small tips. We much appreciate and encourage these submissions, as they help to keep the website running and pay our Editors & contributors!
To choose one of these options, please visit our Ko-Fi page and make a donation of one of the following amounts:
$3 USD for a 24-hour response.
$6 USD for a response with general/overview feedback.
$9 USD for a 24-hour response with general/overview feedback.
$9 USD per page for detailed feedback.
Include your name in the donor message box (so that we know that it’s you!)
Unfortunately, feedback options are only available for submissions of writing.
Please also note that though we enjoy the risky and the risqué, we do not want gratuitously violent or sexual fantasies. Neither do we want work that objectively condones/promotes bigotry of any kind. This type of content can get you banned from submitting. (It's always clearly intended to offend. If you're worried about accidentally sending us something like this, you're probably in the clear.)
We reserve the right to reject/take down work from any submitter/contributor we find to have committed hateful, abusive, or plagiarizing behaviour.
Where/how to send your work:
Submissions must be sent in via the appropriate Google Form (all found under their specific categories below). Work sent anywhere else will not be read.
Don’t stress about the formatting—please keep it simple, and with a readable font. Double-spaced prose, single-spaced poetry.
Cover letters are optional, but much appreciated, and if you like, tell us a little bit about yourself while you’re at it. Official bios will be requested upon acceptance; we don’t care so much about your past publications as much as we’d like to know about the writer behind the pages.
You may submit to up to two categories at once (i.e., you can submit a work of fiction and as well as three poems—but not fiction, poetry and CNF). Please, just one submission per category, per reading period.
If we decline your work, please wait until the next reading period to re-submit, unless we personally invite you to submit again earlier.
Regular submissions are free and we’ll get back to you in about a month (but please do not query until 2 months have passed).
Expedited responses & responses with feedback:
However, we also offer special response options in exchange for small tips. We much appreciate and encourage these submissions, as they help to keep the website running and pay our Editors & contributors!
To choose one of these options, please visit our Ko-Fi page and make a donation of one of the following amounts:
$3 USD for a 24-hour response.
$6 USD for a response with general/overview feedback.
$9 USD for a 24-hour response with general/overview feedback.
$9 USD per page for detailed feedback.
Include your name in the donor message box (so that we know that it’s you!)
Unfortunately, feedback options are only available for submissions of writing.
Afterwards, please submit your work via this form (no matter the genre):
*FOR EXPEDITED & FEEDBACK REQUEST SUBS ONLY, PLEASE; regular & lineskip submissions can be found below*
Afterwards, please submit your work via this form (no matter the genre):
*FOR EXPEDITED & FEEDBACK REQUEST SUBS ONLY, PLEASE; regular & lineskip submissions can be found below*
Please note that one donation covers one submission (for example, 1 short story or 3 poems). A paid submission does not increase your chances of publication.
Rights and payment:
Submissions must have never appeared in another publication. Work published on a personal site is okay, as long as it is taken down upon acceptance (art and photography are an exception and are okay to stay up). Otherwise, we do not take reprints except by solicitation; the vast majority of our published pieces shall be unsolicited and previously unpublished.
By submitting to Wrongdoing, you are confirming that all of the enclosed work is original and belonging to you.
Simultaneous submissions are perfectly fine, but please do e-mail us right away at wrongdoingmag@gmail.com if a work is accepted elsewhere.
Revision requests will be honored upon acceptance if desired. We will also inform you of any minor edits we might wish to make to your piece. Please do not send revisions before receiving an acceptance, unless they're substantial and you really believe they'll affect our judgment of the work; if that is the case, then please do not fill out an additional sub form (email us).
We acquire First Serial Rights to the works that we accept for publication. Upon acceptance, your piece may not appear anywhere else until we publish it—at which point the rights revert back to you, the contributor.
Please credit Wrongdoing Magazine as first publisher when you republish work that originated with us. We also reserve the right to archive and of course promote your writing or art. Should we wish to anthologize works previously published by us, we'll always reach out to the author/artist for permission to reprint them.
We current pay a small honorarium of $10 CAD per contributor. We also strongly believe in giving every contributor a dedicated, personalized & lasting run of promotion. We nominate works for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fiction anthologies.
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NEW: you may elect the 'lineskip' option to get your work to the top of the pile. These lineskip submissions cost $2, payable through our Ko-Fi page. Please note there is no set response time for lineskips, hence them being cheaper than expedited responses.
However, PLEASE DO NOT use the following forms for expedited & feedback request subs. For those, see the form linked above.
All regular submissions are free.
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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
For consideration for the next issue’s cover or contents, please send up to 5 pieces in low-res (we will request your high-res files upon acceptance) Our tastes are broad, but ultimately we'll prioritize work that fits the feel of the magazine. POETRY Please send 1-3 poems in a single document. We do not have line limits, but long poems must earn their length. If your work has a very specific shape, please send it as a PDF (and keep in mind that it may be published as an image if accepted). |
PROSE Please send one piece of up to 12,000 words or up to three pieces of flash (max. 1,500 words each).
HYBRID/EXPERIMENTAL/OTHER We don’t want to define what we want from this category, though it should reside outside of the boxes of prose & poetry. Please send one piece of up to 12,000 words or up to three pieces of flash (max. 1,500 words each). |
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