Please read the full guidelines before sending new work.
Rolling Submissions
What are we looking for?
Our Weekly Features page is a living, breathing ecosystem comprising the liveliest writings from across categories that do not often find a place in the somewhat rigid litmag issue model with its constraints of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, etc. We publish humour (can be prose, poetry, drama, etc.), culture essays (literature, cinema, theatre, music, sports, art, food, and everything else under the sun), travelogues / travel writing, photo essays (should tell a story through the photographs with the written work designed to supplement the photos), craft essays, translations and reviews (of books, films, theatre, music albums). Try us even if you cannot figure out how to categorise your work.
Please visit our About page for our publication ethics to make a note of what we will not consider and for additional insight into our editorial process.
What categories do we consider?
We welcome all forms and styles in the below categories.
Humour: 1 piece of upto 2000 words with 1-3 photos, if any. If sending poetry, send 3-5 poems keeping in mind our current website does not allow us to format poetry in any non-traditional way.
Culture Essay: 1 piece of upto 2000 words with 1-3 photos, if any.
Travelogue: 1 piece of upto 2000 words with 1-10 photos, if any.
Photo Essay: 1 piece of upto 1500 words with 6-12 photos.
Craft Essay: 1 piece of upto 1500 words with 1-3 photos, if any.
Review: 1 piece of upto 1000 words with 1-3 photos, if any.
Translation: 1 piece of upto 2000 words. If sending poetry, send 3-5 poems. Include consent from the author of the original work in your submission email, or mention it if the original work is in the public domain.
All photographs should be your own or credited to the photographer (no stock photos).
For further clarification, please check FAQ, or contact us via email or social media DM.
How and Where to Submit?
Email [email protected] with the subject line: WEEKLY FEATURES — [category]
Incorrect/incomplete subject line may cause us to misplace your email, leading to a non-response from our end.
Please do not send multiple emails and create more than one email thread regarding the same submission.
Cover Letter Checklist
Short and crisp cover letter. ‘Dear Editors’ is fine.
No need to introduce/summarise your work unless you want to share relevant info.
We don’t require CW/TW but you’re welcome to include them.
No contributor bios, please. We will solicit bios and contributor photos upon acceptance.
Please mention if it is a simultaneous or exclusive submission.
Submission Format
Send us a doc/docx file (no PDFs or Google Docs or any other format, please).
Your file name should be Your Name_Category (eg: Jane Wild_Travelogue).
We prefer 12-pt, single-spaced, any readable serif font, no paragraph indents, left-aligned, and references instead of footnotes, if any.
Images should be attached as jpg/jpeg/png files.
For further clarification, please check FAQ, or contact us via email or social media DM.
F.A.Q.
Submission deadline: We are open year-round.
Strictness on Word Limits: We won’t mind you going a little over the word limit.
Sim-subs: Yes, just let us know upon acceptance elsewhere & withdraw. However, if we have accepted and you’ve agreed, please don’t withdraw or request us to replace already accepted work with another work.
Reprints: No unsolicited reprints.
Response Time: Within a month (often sooner, but can vary). Feel free to query after a month has passed.
Submission Fees: No.
Payment: We wish we could.
Rights:
Copyright of the work remains with the contributor.
We ask for First Electronic Publication Rights and credits when your work is republished.
We also ask for Archival Rights on our website indefinitely.
If we ever plan an anthology from the work published in our magazine, we’ll request permission from the contributor.
We nominate our contributors for awards such as the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, Best Spiritual Literature, etc.
For further clarification, please contact us via email or social media DM.
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