SUBMISSION NOT OPEN YET We’re happy to announce that ! is having a collab issue with FLARE Magazine and we’re accepting submissions from June 8th to 12th (closes 11:59 pm). The theme will be:
“Exclamation For The Disabled And Chronically Ill”
- Do you have something urgent to say about living with a disability/mental health condition/chronic illness?
- Tell us about a time you were in the ER or needed help ASAP!
- What needs to be said about these topics ASAP?
- How has your disability surprised you, angered you, made you need to exclaim about it?!
…And more! These are just some ideas we’d love to see! Anything that makes us exclaim!!!
This special collab issue will be a print AND digital issue. **Please note that we unfortunately cannot offer free contributor print copies. However, the issue will be available for free on both Exclamation Mark Literary Journal and FLARE Magazine’s websites digitally.
Response Time
For this issue, we aim to respond to all submissions within 3 days AFTER submissions close!
We also do not offer payment for any publication but FLARE and Exclamation Mark nominates for awards!
Finally, Submission (NOT OPEN RIGHT NOW):
For ALL submissions, please send a Microsoft Word doc (but PDF is also okay) as an attachment (please NO pasted subs in the body of the email, since this is a collab issue; this will result in an automatic rejection) to flaremagazinesubmissions@gmail.com with your genre and ““Collab Issue” in the subject line. You should also include a brief statement about why your submission is “exclaimable,” and the type(s) of exclamation it contains.
We look forward to reading your work!
Submission Guidelines
Please check the guideline section on FLARE’s website for more details:
For all genres of writing, PLEASE INCLUDE CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGS AHEAD OF EACH PIECE IN THE DOCUMENT.
Please also just submit to ONE writing category (but writers can submit in art as well!).
Genres we’re accepting (a little different than !‘s normal guidelines):
- Poetry: Up to 3 poems
- Each on its own page
- PLEASE NO SPECIAL FORMATTING (WordPress is not a fan!)
- Microfiction: Up to 3 pieces (400 words or fewer)
- Please double space
- We’re open to all literary and genre fiction, just no erotica
- Flash Fiction: 1 piece only (up to 1000 words)
- Please double space
- We’re open to all literary and genre fiction, just no erotica
- Short Story: 1 piece only (up to 2500 words)
- Please double space
- We’re open to all literary and genre fiction, just no erotica
- Creative Nonfiction: 1 piece only (up to 2000 words)
- Please double space
- Hybrid/Experimental: Up to 3 pieces (1000 words max per piece)
- Single spaced is okay here
- Art/Photography: Up to 3 pieces (JPEG please!)
- SPECIAL NOTE: For this issue, we’ll be looking for one art piece as the print copy’s cover (MUST BE in black and white). (No payment for selected artist)
- REMINDER: your art piece does NOT have to relate to chronic illness, disability, and/or mental health, but the ARTIST must identify as having at least one of these.
- We encourage an artist’s statement about what inspired your submission!
- With your art submission, please include the art technique you used to create the work.