Call for Submissions on Theme of "Handmade Tales": Wyldcraft

Now accepting submissions for the SPRING/SUMMER 2025 issue!

Deadline for submissions: MARCH 1st, 2025

Click HERE to take a look at our previous issues!

❮ GENERAL ❯ We accept the following types of submissions: 

• Fiction

• Creative Nonfiction

• Poetry

• Experimental forms (spells, recipes, obituaries, grocery lists, legal citations, horoscopes – we’re open-minded)

• Written submissions, other than poetry, should be no longer than 1500 words. For poetry and all other forms: use your judgment.

• Please proof-read your work prior to submission.

• At this time, we can only publish English-language submissions (or translations).

• We accept simultaneous submissions, with the understanding that you’ll let us know if another outlet has chosen to publish your content.

• THIS ISSUE (Spring/Summer 2025): The theme is “Handmade Tales”. Please interpret the theme however you’d like!

❮ SUBMISSION PROCESS ❯
Submissions are accepted via email:

wyldcraftmag@gmail.com 

• Please include the word SUBMISSION in the Subject Line

• Emailed submissions should be attached as separate, editable documents (not in the body of the email). For the sake of clarity, we don’t intend to edit your submission (outside of correcting any unintentional spelling mistakes), but we require this in the event your material is selected for inclusion in order to make the formatting and publishing processes easier on us . By the way, if we are digging your work but have editorial notes that we feel might strengthen your submission, we will reach out!
  

• You must include the following along with your submission: Your Full Name (and, if different from your given name, your preferred author byline).

• You may include the following as well (it can’t hurt!): If you prefer, any social media handle or website you’d like to appear alongside your work.

• Any additional info about you that we may find cool (have you written for other publications before, or won any awards? We love that for you and want to hear about it!)

• If your submission is accepted, we will obviously let you know! You’ll receive an email response directly to the email address your submission came into us from.

• If your submission is not accepted, you likely won’t hear from us – we’d love to chat, of course, but given the volume of submissions we receive, we don’t have the bandwidth to get back to everyone. If you haven’t heard from us in 6 weeks, please assume your submission has not been accepted on this occasion.

 ❮ LEGAL JUNK ❯ We don’t have any desire to steal your work – you maintain the copyright to the original material you submit; we’re just here to provide a platform!

• Speaking of ownership: please don’t send us work that isn’t yours! In fact, by sending us a submission, you’re confirming that you are the sole owner of the material submitted.

• Submitted works MUST be original – while we love leftovers, we don’t want your scraps from a previous publishing. Don’t send us pieces you’ve already had successfully published in other magazines, blogs, etc.

❮ OUR VIBES ❯ About Us: We are a grassroots, female-run literary magazine currently in the new moon of our life. We think of ourselves as foragers, going out into the wild to find and elevate emerging literary voices. We’re committed to lowering the traditional barriers of entry to publication, and we encourage submissions from authors in every stage of their literary journey.

We’d love it if your submissions mesh with the vibe of our mag – to that end, here’s what our dating app profile would say, if we had one:

• Spiritual but not religious

• Eco-feminist (no fish pics plz)

• Witty & witchy

• Inclusive

• Down to clown