Submissions

Remember all submissions should be in Times New Roman, 12 font. Please include a short bio in third-person. If selected, you will have the opportunity to include a photo to accompany your bio on our contributor’s page. (For examples of bios, please see our Contributors page).

SCHEDULE

Black Moon Magazine Printing Schedule:

We operate on a rolling submission basis and are moving to a biannual publishing schedule:

  • We accept submissions August 1st–December 31st for our January issue.
  • We accept submissions February 1st–June 30th for our July issue.

We are closed for submissions in January and July in order to focus on production.

Thanks to a generous Bridge Fellowship from the University of Arkansas Gender Studies Program, we were able to offer payment to contributors of a special Women’s Issue. However, at this time, we are an online-only publication and we are unable to consistently pay our contributors. We are working diligently to change these realities, but your patience while we do so is appreciated.

While we hope to branch out and accept creative nonfiction and dramatic pieces in the future, for now we only accept fiction, poetry, and visual art for our biannual issues. We also accept interviews and reviews for our blog. Please see the submission guidelines below. Feel free to submit to either, or both, of the categories. If you are submitting to both categories, please send a separate email for fiction and poetry entries.

INTERVIEW SUBMISSIONS

We now accept interviews for our website! Please keep these guidelines in mind before submitting an interview:

  • To submit an interview, please send your work in an email attachment to blackmoonmageditors@gmail.com with the subject line as INTERVIEW SUBMISSION. We do not accept print submissions and it is completely free to submit.
  • We will only accept files that are .pdf, .doc, or .docx
  • We are only interested in reviews of professionals in the writing community. This include but is not limited to: authors, editors, publishers, professors, agents, and conference coordinators.
  • If you are submitting an author interview, please note preference will be given to interviews with authors who either have published a book or have a book forthcoming.
  • We will accept both written and video interviews.
  • If you have questions, please query us.

REVIEW SUBMISSIONS

We now accept book reviews for our website! Please keep these guidelines in mind before submitting a book review:

  • To submit reviews, please send your work in an email attachment to blackmoonmageditors@gmail.com with the subject line as REVIEW SUBMISSION. We do not accept print submissions and it is completely free to submit.
  • We will only accept files that are .pdf, .doc, or .docx
  • Preference will be given to reviews of books that are forthcoming or have been published within the previous year. We will consider all submissions, though.
  • Please do not submit a review for your own book.
  • WE ONLY ACCEPT POSITIVE REVIEWS. As they say: if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
  • Please keep reviews brief–between 250 and 1,000 words. Please limit your submission to 1-3 reviews at a time.
  • Please include the following information in your review: author’s name, cover art, title, publisher, and publication date.
  • Please make sure your work is formatted to our specifications: All reviews should be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-pt. font. Page numbers should be in the top right hand corner of each page.
  • Please note: We only accept reviews of works of fiction (novels/short story collections) or poetry (chapbooks or full collections).
  • In the body of your email, you should include a brief cover letter and a short bio (500 words or less) written in third-person. This bio will be published along with your work in the event that it is selected for publication.
  • If you are not sure if a book meets our criteria, simply query us.

ART SUBMISSIONS

  • To submit artwork, please send your work in an email attachment to blackmoonmageditors@gmail.com with the subject line as ART SUBMISSION. We do not accept print submissions and it is completely free to submit.
  • We will only accept files that are .jpeg or .png (we are open to any artwork that can be shared with us in these formats)
  • Original artwork only–a single artist may submit up to 5 pieces of art.
  • In the body of your email, you should include a brief cover letter and a short bio (500 words or less) written in third-person. This bio will be published along with your work in the event that it is selected for publication.
  • If you are not sure if a piece meets our criteria, simply query us.

FICTION SUBMISSIONS

  • To submit fiction, please send your work in an email attachment to blackmoonmageditors@gmail.com with the subject line as FICTION SUBMISSION. We do not accept print submissions and it is completely free to submit.
  • We will only accept files that are .pdf, .doc, or .docx
  • We will accept up to 3 short stories between 1,000 and 8,000 words. We will also accept up to 5 flash fiction pieces (1,000 words or less). You may also send a combination of flash/full length stories. Please do not send us more than 5 stories at once.
  • Please ensure that all of your pieces are submitted as individual attachments. One story per attachment.
  • Please make sure your work is formatted to our specifications: All stories should be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-pt. font. Page numbers should be in the top right hand corner of each page. EXCEPTION: If your story is experimental with form, please feel free to disregard this. We want to see your weird stuff, give us your stuff that pushes boundaries, give us the things that break genre, shun convention–but whatever you give us, make it good!
  • In the body of your email, you should include a brief cover letter and a short bio (500 words or less) written in third-person. This bio will be published along with your work in the event that it is selected for publication.
  • We do not currently accept reprints. We want only original, unpublished work. Authors must title their works as we do not accept untitled entries.

POETRY SUBMISSIONS

  • To submit poetry, please send your work in an email attachment to blackmoonmageditors@gmail.com with the subject line as POETRY SUBMISSION. We do not accept print submissions and it is completely free to submit.
  • We will only accept files that are .pdf, .doc, or .docx
  • We will accept up to 5 poems up to five pages each.
  • Please ensure that all of your pieces are submitted as individual attachments. One poem per attachment.
  • Please make sure your work is formatted to our specifications: All poems should be in Times New Roman 12-pt. font, single-spaced, and left aligned (with exceptions for poems purposely formatted in a different manner).
  • In the body of your email, you should include a brief cover letter and a short bio (500 words or less) written in third-person. This bio will be published along with your work in the event that it is selected for publication.
  • We do not currently accept reprints. We want only original, unpublished work. Authors must title their works as we do not accept untitled entries.

RESIDUAL RIGHTS

Black Moon Magazine reserves the following rights pertaining to publishing material:

Black Moon Magazine reserves the rights to publish all selected words in print, electronically, as well as representational segments of all written work on our website or social media accounts.

Black Moon Magazine reserves the rights to republish material in future anthologies, collections, or solicitations.

Black Moon Magazine retains First North American Publishing Rights, with all other publishing rights returning to the creators with the stipulations that subsequent publications will note that Black Moon Magazine has been the first publisher of the material.