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Mergoat Magazine is a quarterly publication that provides an interdisciplinary record of Southern Appalachian ecologies, cultures, and politics. Submit essays, research articles, personal reflections, abstracts, creative writing, Project Feature proposals, Species/Genus Feature proposals, interviews, art of all kinds (yes, even 4D/multimedia!), poetry, and more!
You may email any questions to [email protected], but please use the Google Form linked above to submit work if you would like us to consider it for publication. Keep in mind we are a very small team and receive many submissions for each issue. We are not always able to respond to all submissions that are not selected. :(
No fee to submit! No max number of words.
Pay: ~$50-$500 (Commissions, however, are often negotiated differently.)
Our general practice has been to feature two poets per issue, four poems apiece. There have been exceptions to this—we have featured other forms of creative writing in place of poems in two of the issues—but generally we prefer if you submit 4-6 poems to be considered for publication. This isn’t a hard rule, so don’t stress if you only want to submit 2 or 3 poems, particularly if they are longer poems.
Scans and photography should ultimately be at a print resolution of at least 300 DPI but feel free to submit smaller file sizes for consideration. Page dimensions are 8.5 x 10" with a 1/4" bleed. The full spread dimensions are 10x17" + 1/8" bleed. So at 300dpi (print resolution), a full spread with bleed would be **3075 x 5175px**. These dimensions need not constrain you, but many folks ask about that when submitting.
While it’s ultimately up to our creative director which images are displayed at full spread, you may want to keep in mind that anything in the center of the spread will be partially lost in the spine area known as the gutter. See the example spread from Issue 3 shown below. Outside of the lime green stroke is the area of the page known as ”bleed” and that is where the edge of the paper is trimmed (on the green line). The area that's shaded in the center is the area that gets lost in the gutter. One of our team members affectionately calls these areas "sacrifice zones". ☠️
More questions about art? Email [email protected].