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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!
  

Theme: Exquisite Corpses

You must be thinking, what on moon is an exquisite corpse? What's with all this morbidity? Rest assured, some literary devices while morbid-sounding are actually far from morbid, unless that's what you're aiming for in your creative endeavor. An exquisite corpse, or exquisite cadaver, is a method by which words or images are assembled collectively by several writers or artists (or both?). Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence either by following a set of guidelines or by seeing only the last bit of what the previous collaborator made. Et voilà, you have yourself a cadavre très, très exquis or absolutely ridiculous. Either way, everyone is having a blast!

For Issue 3, we accept submissions for our general guidelines (to balance out all this absurdity) as well as for our plat de résistance (or main course, if you will). Creating an exquisite corpse need not be a strict experience. We accept work of all mediums. We accept collaborative work. We accept individual work. We accept exquisite corpses followed by a set of guidelines. We accept exquisite corpses that aren't followed by any guidelines at all. Just make it seem like it's an exquisite corpse, and we will delight in it, oh oui!

Thanks to the very belated Botticelli for Venus of Milo. Thanks to Lisa Maree Williams for perfectly capturing Mr. Bean. Thanks to Goodfon for goodwallpaper of Cthulhu.

Moonchaps

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 when general submissions are open. 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.

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 within one month of your submission. Please contact us if we haven't reached out to you after one month has 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!

Submissions are currently closed.