General and Moonchaps submissions are currently closed.
Anything submitted during non-reading period will be automatically deleted.
Anything submitted during non-reading period will be automatically deleted.
Submit
Send us your ode to the moon cycles, your ingenious poems based on zodiac signs, your poetic hybrids or pictorial erasures, your magical and healing spells, your translations you're most proud of (and you should be!), your briefest but bravest (non-)fiction, your soothing mixtape lullabies, your can't-keep-our-eyes-off art pieces.
Guidelines
We accept
- Art: up to 5 pieces of photography/paintings/illustrations/mixed media/collages/digital media/whatever you deem visually stimulating. Art pieces that are part of a series have no number limit; we will simply choose the ones we love the best.
- Poetry: up to 5 poems. Be bold and experimental, or be classical and romantic, whatever goes and flows. We adore sonnets, limericks, senryus, prose poems, hybrids, erasures, found poems, spells, astrological poetry. Send them as graphics, with audio or video, or as is.
- Translated poetry: up to 5 original poems with your translations. We want the translations to reflect the pure essence of the originals.
- Flash fiction: up to 3 pieces of no more than 500 words. If you're feeling extra brave, send us some poignant and dreamy dribbles or drabbles. As they say, "brevity is the soul of wit."
- Mixtape: up to 13 songs. Send us a mixtape perfect for the rainy days, for meditative ambiance, for peak experiences, for healing catharsis, for nightdreaming, for passionate dancing.
- Collaboration: no restrictions. We accept collaborative visual art or written word. We treasure collaborations that are harmonious fusions of two brilliant minds.
- More: whatever else you think we—and our readers and community—may enjoy. There's no limit to your imagination, moonchild. Pitch to us!
- Cover letters: aren't necessary, but do shoot us a friendly hello with a little background about yourself. We can't wait to get to know you and your splendorous work!
Issue 5: erased then found, collaged.
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For our issue 5 submission call we invite you, dear moonchildren, to send us erasures, found poems, collages, and hybrids of the aforementioned. We encourage you to reflect on the written and visual forms and how they can be employed to shed light on stories that had been grossly misrepresented or altogether erased from historical events; to reclaim falsely represented or totally forgotten narratives from those whose voices went unheard or were diminished, from those whose personhood was sidelined and trivialized; to collect and save these accounts so they will always be remembered and respected.
Think about Enheduanna as the first world author and inventor and disseminator of literature in Sumer while taking into account the popular misbelief that it is men who are the precursors of literature. Think about Queen Hatshepsut, a successful and peaceful pharaoh in Ancient Egypt, and the implications behind her choice of dressing as a man and being represented as a man in inscriptions, icons, and monuments, and how it would had shaped history if a different choice was made. Think about Katherine Johnson, an expert mathematician and human computer who is one of the hidden figures behind sending the first American to space, and how often in our history men refused to work with women or took credit for their work due to systemic gender and racial biases. Think about the Trump administration defining trans people out of history and how erasing language devolves us as humans. Think about how non-binary people's stories are absent in literature and cinema. Think about how people with disabilities are used as inspiration porn in mainstream pop culture. Think about able-bodied actors misrepresenting disabled and chronically ill people in shows and movies. Think about Brown Asians not getting any lead roles in films even today. Think about the fluidity of gender identity and nuance of ethnicity, how others refuse to accept you for who you are. Think about your own personal story where you felt alienated and silenced. Fuel your fire, create, and reclaim your narrative! |
Moonchaps
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If you have a dreamy chapbook you'd like published online, Moonchaps is your go-to press for that. Since 2018, we started publishing online poetry/prose chapbooks that feel like an experience of sorts.
Buying books is a luxury that not everyone can afford. Our Apollo mission is to make everything we publish readily available for everyone to read while making it a sensorial experience as well. What do they say about that? Land on two moons with one rocketship? Yes, please and thank you. Our guidelines are fairly lenient. Submissions for chapbooks are open once a year for the whole month of January. Send us a manuscript (or as we like to call it, moonuscript) of poems or prose of no more than 40 pages. Everything else is up to you. Send us poems with art pieces. Send us prose with accompanying music. Send us hybrids with your audio/video recordings. Send them like they're a treasure map. Send them like they're a choose your own destiny game. Send them like they're palpable, palatable. Collaborations welcome. Translated poetry welcome. Exquisite corpses welcome. May the muse be your guideline. |
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Send/Pitch
You can send us your work at moonchildmag@gmail.com. We accept previously published work and simultaneous and multiple submissions. We also welcome returning contributors. At the subject line, please write "Submission: Art Medium, Moonchild Your Name". If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at the same email or on Twitter.
If you wrote or made something that doesn't quite fit the standard work of art but think that Moonchild Magazine and our readers and community may delight in it, please pitch it to us at our email or on Twitter! When you do, please write "Pitch: Moonchild Your Name" at the subject line.
If you're submitting a chapbook manuscript for our consideration, please write "Submission: Moonchaps, Moonchild Your Name" at the subject line when e-mailing us.
We look forward to reading/viewing/hearing/tasting (we wish!) your work and will contact you from anywhere between one day to three months after your submission. Please contact us if we haven't reached out to you after three months have passed. If you have sent us a Moonchaps submission, please wait until six months have passed before inquiring about your submission. If you haven't heard from us after that, please give us a nudge!
If you wrote or made something that doesn't quite fit the standard work of art but think that Moonchild Magazine and our readers and community may delight in it, please pitch it to us at our email or on Twitter! When you do, please write "Pitch: Moonchild Your Name" at the subject line.
If you're submitting a chapbook manuscript for our consideration, please write "Submission: Moonchaps, Moonchild Your Name" at the subject line when e-mailing us.
We look forward to reading/viewing/hearing/tasting (we wish!) your work and will contact you from anywhere between one day to three months after your submission. Please contact us if we haven't reached out to you after three months have passed. If you have sent us a Moonchaps submission, please wait until six months have passed before inquiring about your submission. If you haven't heard from us after that, please give us a nudge!