Issues
Issue 1: published 9 October
Issue 2: published 16 February, 2024
Issue 3: submissions open 15 April, 2024
Submissions
ISSUE III ─ spring/summer 2024
Submission Inbox: OPEN
Submission window: 15 April - 30 May
Publication date: 15 June 2024
Theme: Ends and Beginnings
The theme for Issue III is 'Ends and Beginnings', inspired by the poem, The Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks): |
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. . . . |
General Guidelines for Submissions
Prose - (Fiction, Nonfiction, Advice, Travel Journals, Translations, Interviews, Reviews, Manifestos, etc.)
For this format, please submit no more than 2000 words in a single work, with a limit of one piece submitted for each issue. If your work is nonfiction and requires references, we ask that you use the Chicago Manual of Style, in the notes-bibliography format, for the cleanest appearance possible.
If you are submitting a translation, please also include documentation that the original work is currently in the public domain.
We are very flexible with the definition of 'prose' and encourage creativity. We would especially love to see more unusual formats - recipes, journal pages, shopping list fragments. Whatever helps you to tell the story you want to tell.
Poetry
Poetry submissions should not exceed 500 total words across up to three poems per issue. Submitting a PDF of your work may also be helpful if your submission relies on specific spacing and formatting that .docx have been known to occasionally manipulate.
Visual Art - (Photographs, Digital Art, Comics, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, etc.)
You may submit up to five works and one artist's note per issue.
We would love to include more visual art or other non-traditional submissions in the next issue so we highly suggest you submit yours!
this can include drawings, sketches, paintings, photography, receipt scribbles, journal tid-bits, that coffee stain that looks exactly like your childhood dog.... get creative!
- We unfortunately do not have the funds to be able to pay contributors (yet), except in gratitude. BUT we promise the magazine will look really cool.
- Please submit all written work via this Google Forms (https://forms.gle/wwwwadnM5WADAbMy7)
- If you are unable to submit via the Google Forms, you may also email submissions to us at [email protected]
- You don't need a cover letter or anything. If you feel you want a little explanatory note or to say hi to us, that would be lovely and you can include that in the body of your email, but this isn't a job application so don't stress yourself out!
- Any font is fine, as long as it is readable
- Work may be submitted in any other language as the original text, but please provide a translation in English as well.
- We ask that you only submit unpublished works
- We will only ask for an author's biography if your work is accepted. Please don't include it in the body of your email or within your submission doc as we prefer to read your work with as little bias as possible.
Prose - (Fiction, Nonfiction, Advice, Travel Journals, Translations, Interviews, Reviews, Manifestos, etc.)
For this format, please submit no more than 2000 words in a single work, with a limit of one piece submitted for each issue. If your work is nonfiction and requires references, we ask that you use the Chicago Manual of Style, in the notes-bibliography format, for the cleanest appearance possible.
If you are submitting a translation, please also include documentation that the original work is currently in the public domain.
We are very flexible with the definition of 'prose' and encourage creativity. We would especially love to see more unusual formats - recipes, journal pages, shopping list fragments. Whatever helps you to tell the story you want to tell.
Poetry
Poetry submissions should not exceed 500 total words across up to three poems per issue. Submitting a PDF of your work may also be helpful if your submission relies on specific spacing and formatting that .docx have been known to occasionally manipulate.
Visual Art - (Photographs, Digital Art, Comics, Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, etc.)
You may submit up to five works and one artist's note per issue.
We would love to include more visual art or other non-traditional submissions in the next issue so we highly suggest you submit yours!
this can include drawings, sketches, paintings, photography, receipt scribbles, journal tid-bits, that coffee stain that looks exactly like your childhood dog.... get creative!
Publishing Rights
Our goal is to showcase creative work and platform storytellers, not to make money. As such, we only acquire first serial rights of your work, which grants Transients Mag the right to publish your work first, and then returns your rights to you immediately after publication. If you like, you may also release your rights into the public domain when you publish, which is a conversation we can have if your work is accepted.