FAQs

No.

As long as you don’t have thousands of followers, it’s fine to send us your work.

No, if your work has been published in another country, it is not eligible.

We define published as an editorial decision that someone else has made to include your work in a publication – i.e. it has been chosen from a selection to be published. This includes print and online publication.

No. We only print unpublished work.

Yes, but if you find your submission has been accepted elsewhere, please let us know as soon as possible. Be sure to check that anywhere else you submit your piece also accepts simultaneous submissions.

If your piece is accepted for publication and/or shortlisted in a competition where the prize includes publication, you must withdraw your entry.

Everyone can submit work to Palm-Sized Press. We accept submissions from anyone, located anywhere in the world.

Submissions will be accepted until midnight the night of the deadline. Check our Submissions page for our current deadlines.

As we receive submissions from all over the world, this will be midnight AoE – meaning midnight along the international dateline (GMT-12).

Please title all submissions (there are thousands of “Untitled” pieces; you’ll stand out more if you give your work that little bit of extra love).

Yes, please.

It is not necessary to number your pages.

There is no required format – double-spaced, single-sided, font size 12 in a commonly used font, such as Cambria, Calibri, Times New Roman or Arial. Legibility is the important thing.

As long as you’ve filled out the information required in the upload form, you don’t need to include a coversheet, but you can if you’d like to.

Please just get in touch via our contact form.

Please just get in touch via our contact form.

Anything you’d like, but most people use the title of the creative work being entered. If your file has a different name, you must specify this on your submission form.

We ask that artwork be submitted at the highest quality possible (please, if possible, avoid using your phone to take a picture of your submission). However, we are aware that the upload form for art is limited to 60MB. Please submit the file that best represents the work. If your piece is chosen for publication, and we need a higher resolution, we will get in touch.

We have not set a limit to length at this time, but please remember that these pieces are intended for a magazine. If the subject warrants a higher word count, we simply ask that you keep it within reason.

You may as many pieces as you’d like, and you are able to attach multiple documents to the same submission form. Simply select more than one file in the upload window by either holding down the Control key (for Windows) or Command (for Mac).

If you are submitting multiple pieces for the same genre, we would prefer that you upload them as separate documents.

You are welcome to order copies of our previous issues. This will show you the kind of fiction and art we have previously published.

Flash fiction up to 500 words, articles/essays on writing and craft, and original artwork. Please check the Submissions page for any applicable themes.

We do not want submissions that are:

• Gratuitously violent or sexual
• Racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, xenophobic, or that otherwise seeks to target a particular person or persons

Please don’t send us another identical entry “just in case.” If you think something has gone wrong with the upload or your email hasn’t reached us, please just get in touch via our contact form, and we’ll check for you.

Yes, you will be sent an automated confirmation email. If you haven’t received this email, please check your spam folder. If you still don’t see it there, get in touch with us.

Permitted file types are: doc, docx, txt, rtf, jpg, jpeg, png, gif. Please do not send submissions as PDF files.

NOTE: Please DO NOT lock your file for editing. Locking the file makes it harder for us to add content to the layout during the production phase.

Please get in touch with us using our contact form. We’ll look into what’s going wrong, and get back to you as soon as possible.

The submission fee helps us pay our contributors.

Simply enter the submission fee in the field below “Submission Fee” on the form. Your payment will be processed via Paypal. You do not need to have a Paypal account – you can simply pay by card.

The submission fee is $2.

Unfortunately we cannot accept postal submissions. If you’re having any problems with the submission form, please get in touch with us here.

No. Although we accept emailed submissions for the prompt responses, we ask that you please use our online form to send in all submissions for the magazine. We have a system in place that tracks and sorts all submissions sent via the form, which will help in the review process.

Submissions sent in any way other than the online form will not be considered.

Yes. Payment will depend on the amount of submissions we receive, and you will receive more information once all entrants have been notified of the outcome of their submissions.

If we choose to accept your work for publication, we assume first serial rights over the piece or pieces until the issue in which your work will be featured is published, at which point your rights revert back to you, the artist or author.

Meaning: if we accept your work, you may not submit it elsewhere or share it publicly until after the issue has been published. If you republish your work elsewhere after publication, please acknowledge Palm-Sized Press as the original publisher.

We aim to inform all entrants of the outcome of their submissions within 3-4 weeks of the deadline.

Please note that we are a very small staff, with day jobs, but getting in touch with our writers and artists is our priority.

Yes. Everyone who provided us with a valid email address will be sent an email notifying them of the outcome of their submission.

We will be opening submissions for the next issue in due time. Please do not submit anything until the next submission window has opened. Any submissions sent outside of our reading periods will not be considered.

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