Submit
Submissions are open from October through June each year.
Send us your dead doves, your blorbos, your plinkos, your wretched meow meows yearning to be free; that thing you wrote that made you think, “I don’t know where this belongs”; the stuff you’d never show anyone you know IRL. Give us your shameless, self-indulgent smut; the manuscript to the video essay you dictated to your YouTube subscribers in your head; your thoughtful explorations of trauma and identity; the prose version of your Pepe Silvia wall; your sci-fi, your fantasy, your romance, your realism. We want anything and everything. As long as you identify as a fan, we want to read your work.
We are currently looking for:
Flash fiction (fewer than 1k words and you may submit up to 5 pieces in one submission)
Short fiction (between 1k and 20k words, only one piece per submission period per person)
Nonfiction (personal essays, articles, or meta up to 20k)
Guidelines:
Your work cannot be published or posted anywhere else. If you’ve posted a work on any social platform, even if you take it down, for legal reasons, we cannot accept it. This means you can’t delete a work from AO3 and file off the serial numbers to send to us.
Your work must stand on its own as an original piece, although we of course welcome common fanfiction tropes (or the subversion thereof), and works that feel fanfiction-y but contain original characters and worlds. Again, legal reasons.
You must include some information about your relationship to fandom in your cover letter. This is a magazine for publishing the original work of fans. If you don't identify as a fan, we can't accept your work.
We don't need content warnings, but if you'd prefer to offer them, you can do so in the cover letter.
Unfortunately, we won’t be able to accept all work or reply personally to all submissions.
Submit only once per submission period.
We welcome simultaneous submissions. This means you’re free to submit to other magazines, but please withdraw your piece as soon as possible if your work gets accepted elsewhere.
We take first North American serial rights. This means we can’t accept work that has been previously published in any way.
You must be 18 or older to submit.
We are able to offer our contributors a small honorarium in USD (a half cent per word).
If you have questions or would like clarification on any of the above, email oficmagazine@gmail.com or send us an ask.
