Editorial Guide
Make your story ready for editors
Match the word limit and theme, revise the opening and ending, and submit a clean manuscript with a concise cover note.
Work Submission Portal
Submit Short Stories & Fiction to Magazines
Discover digital literary magazines accepting short stories and creative narratives. Send files and join the editorial rosters.
Publications accepting submissions
Magazines You Can Submit Work To
Read each magazine’s editorial focus, choose the best match for your work and review its submission details.
Guide on How to Submit Writing, Poetry & Stories to Magazines
If you want to share your literary and creative work with large audiences and are wondering 'how to publish my poetry' or 'how to submit writing to a digital magazine', MagPublish provides you with a professional gateway. Submissions and writing applications are entirely free and managed digitally.
Submit Writing to Digital Magazines
Dozens of active e-magazines on MagPublish accept new applications from writers and illustrators. Use our portal to send your stories, articles, essays, and creative writing directly to editorial boards.
Publish My Poetry & Submit Poems
We make it simple for poets to submit poetry online. Select your favorite literary magazine, upload your poems via the mobile dashboard, and get published in the upcoming issue.
Magazines Accepting Submissions
Submit your short stories, flash fiction, essays, drawings, and photographs. Track review stages (Reviewing, Scheduled, Published) dynamically and start your professional writing career.
Why Use the Mobile App?
To verify your author profile and monitor the review process instantly, all submissions of text, poetry, and stories to magazines on MagPublish are managed via our mobile app.
Profile & Author Sync
Syncs your submissions automatically with your user profile. When published, your work appears directly under your author name on the magazine page.
Easy & Fast Upload
Quickly upload Word (.docx), PDF documents, or high-res drawings and photographs (JPEG, PNG) directly from your device file manager.
Status Tracking & Notifications
Track every step instantly, such as when your work is being reviewed, scheduled for publication, or published, via push notifications.
How to Submit Work to Magazines?
4 simple steps to follow to get your work successfully published.
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Prepare Your Work
Prepare your text (Word/PDF) or visual work (PNG/JPEG) on your computer or phone in accordance with the guidelines.
2
Download MagPublish App
Download the MagPublish mobile app for free from the App Store or Google Play Store and create your account.
3
Upload & Fill Info
Open the Submission Portal in the app, select your target magazine, add your work's type and title, and upload your file.
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Editorial Review & Publish
The magazine's editors will review your work within 7 days. Approved works are published in the targeted magazine within 60 days.
3 Core Pillars for Submission Acceptance
The basic technical and content standards you must follow for your work to quickly pass through the editorial review.
1. Text & Content Standards
All literary and research texts are expected to be fluent, original, and compliant with grammar rules.
- File Format: Only Word (.docx) or rich text format (.rtf)
- Font Choice: Standard readable fonts (Arial or Times New Roman, 12pt)
- Author Info: Full name and contact info must be written at the very beginning of the text
- Plagiarism Check: Copied texts or those generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be rejected directly
2. Visual & Illustration Selection
Illustrations and artistic drawings are key elements that enhance the visual quality of our digital publications.
- Resolution: Clear and smooth
- File Format: PNG (for transparent backgrounds) or high-quality JPEG
- Copyright: Works must belong entirely to you and be free of unlicensed elements
- Color Space: Saved in RGB color mode for optimal screen display quality
3. Photography Standards
Your original photographs are used by graphic designers in harmony with the page layouts.
- Clarity: High-resolution photos, in-focus, and without noise or grain
- Editing: No extreme contrast or heavy artificial filters should be applied
- Ownership: Permission must have been obtained from any subjects in the photo
- Size: Original shots of at least 2000px wide are preferred
Submission Categories & Guidelines
Review the standards under which you should prepare your literary, artistic, or research works.
Short Story
Definition & Scope
A brief literary narrative structuring real or imagined events with characters, time, and setting elements.
How to Prepare
Can be written in classic plot structure (exposition, climax, resolution) or as a slice-of-life story.
Important Details
Pay attention to character development and narrative consistency. Fully adhere to grammar rules.
Flash Fiction / Minimalist Narrative
Definition & Scope
Minimalist stories aiming to build massive worlds and deep meanings in the reader's mind using very few words (usually 100-250 words).
How to Prepare
Should be stripped of all unnecessary words, carrying a dense subtext.
Important Details
Weigh the contribution of every word, and use endings that trigger the reader's imagination.
Science Fiction & Dystopia
Definition & Scope
Creative literary fiction exploring future technologies, space exploration or dark alternative models of society (dystopias).
How to Prepare
Should be grounded in scientific ideas or contain imaginative social projections.
Important Details
Define the rules of your fictional universe consistently and never break them throughout the story.
Important Editorial Rules
Make sure to proofread all your submissions to eliminate spelling and grammar errors.
Design and layout processes are fully managed by our professional graphic designers; you do not need to do extra page formatting.
AI-generated text or plagiarized work will be filtered out automatically and not saved in the system.
Submitted works will be published in the most appropriate issue after receiving editorial approval.
Frequently Asked Questions
Things you might want to know about the submission process.
Magazines on the MagPublish platform accept a wide variety of works including research files, thematic content, visual designs, academic studies, and any high-quality material suitable for a magazine's concept. Each magazine's accepted types are listed on its own profile page.
The most fundamental way to increase your chances of being published is to ensure your work fully aligns with the editorial line, theme, and vision of the target magazine. Magazines publish within a specific concept; therefore, reviewing past issues of the magazine before submitting and ensuring your content matches the overall style and vision of that publication is the most critical factor in determining acceptance.
When your work is taken under review by the editor, scheduled for publication, or published, instant notifications are sent to your MagPublish account and email address. You can track the entire process for free in real-time from the 'Submission Management' panel within the MagPublish app.
You cannot submit the same work to more than one magazine at the same time; however, you can submit different works to different magazines simultaneously. You can increase your chances by producing more works and submitting them to various publications. According to ethical publishing principles, it is important to wait for feedback from the relevant magazine for each specific work.
No, submitting work to magazines via MagPublish is completely free.
No, MagPublish is only an intermediary platform. Whether the work will be published is entirely at the discretion of the magazine management. We do not interfere with the editorial processes of the content.
MagPublish only acts as an intermediary. The content of the work, copyrights, and legal responsibilities are entirely between the author and the relevant magazine management.
If your application is rejected, we recommend improving your content or exploring different magazines that better suit your work's style. A rejection decision doesn't necessarily mean your work lacks quality; it can also mean your work isn't a perfect fit for that specific magazine or its current issue concept.