Issue #1
Rawhead is currently accepting submissions of poetry, prose, and visual art, via email, for our inaugural issue.
At this time, there is no fee. However, if you would like to support the journal while we grow, you are welcome to donate via Ko-fi. For those who’d like a guaranteed response in under 48 hours, we also offer a $3 donation tier. 100% of these donations go toward covering journal costs and paying contributors. Although donations are appreciated, they have no impact on editorial consideration.
Please send your work to:
Include a short cover letter and attach your work as .doc, .docx, or .pdf.
Editor’s Spotlight
Rawhead will select one outstanding artist and one standout writer each issue to receive a $100 award. We are actively seeking funding and hope to one day offer payment to all of our contributors. Supporting Rawhead through readership, amplification, and donations helps us achieve that goal.
Poetry
You may submit up to 7 poems, totaling no more than 15 pages. Please include 3 to 7 poems in a single document (.doc, .docx, or PDF preferred). Poems should be formatted one per page unless part of a sequence. Indicate stanza breaks if a poem carries over to a new page.
Prose
We accept fiction and nonfiction up to 4,000 words. You may submit one longer piece or up to two shorter works, provided the total word count does not exceed 4,000. For flash and experimental submissions (1,000 words or fewer), you may send up to three pieces in a single document.
Visual Art
We welcome visual art submissions in any medium, including illustration, photography, digital collage, mixed media, painting, and sculpture. Please submit 3 to 10 pieces for consideration, uploaded as high-quality image files (.jpg, .png, or .tiff).
Special Issue #1 – Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones
Rawhead is not a horror journal, but we believe in monsters and love Halloween.
For our first Special Issue, we’re borrowing back the other half of our name. In the lore, Rawhead is often one part of a monstrous duo. Bloody Bones is its counterpart. If Rawhead is our banner of resistance, disruption, and mythic presence year round, then Bloody Bones is the beast we let loose when it’s time to put all symbolic decorum aside.
This issue is a way of honoring the complicated relationship between Rawhead and Bloody Bones, while celebrating our favorite spooky holiday.
We’re looking for art and literature that explores the shadowed corners of being. That might mean ghosts, vampires, and folklore, but it could also mean grief, transformation, survival, hunger, queerness, rage, humor, dreams.
Monsters as metaphor, or monsters as real as you need them to be.
We welcome poetry, prose, hybrid work, and visual art. Our submissions standards for Special Issues are identical to the guidelines for our normal issues.
Simultaneous & Previously Published Work
We accept simultaneous submissions and encourage you to submit widely. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please notify us of which pieces are no longer available. We’ll be happy for you and pleased to continue reviewing the rest.
We believe that powerful work deserves more than a single appearance. Too often, published pieces reach only a limited audience before slipping into obscurity. At Rawhead, we’re committed to giving exceptional writing and art a second life where it can continue to resonate, provoke, and endure. We will consider previously published poems, prose, and visual art under the conditions that you still retain the rights, properly acknowledge the original publishers, and at least one year has passed since their initial appearances.
Cover Letters
Please include a short third-person bio, a list of previous publications (if applicable), and any personal websites, blogs, or social media handles you’d like us to share. You can enter this information in the cover letter field on Submittable.
Inclusion & Equity
Rawhead is committed to uplifting work by BIPOC, queer, disabled, and neurodiverse artists and writers—and anyone whose voice has been overlooked or underestimated.
Ethical Standards
Rawhead does not accept work that promotes or perpetuates racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or other forms of hatred or dehumanization. Don’t bother sending it.
Response Time
Our goal is to respond to your submission within 2–4 months, though it will likely be sooner. We appreciate your patience and the trust you place in us by sharing your work.
Rights & Reprinting
By accepting publication in Rawhead, the Author grants Rawhead the following rights: Rawhead acquires First Serial Rights, Non-Exclusive Reprint Rights, Electronic Rights, Archival Rights, and Non-Exclusive Anthology/Reprint Rights. This permits Rawhead to archive your work online, to use it in promotional materials, and to reprint it in future anthologies. All other rights remain with the Author. The Author retains full copyright and may republish the Work elsewhere after it appears in Rawhead, provided the Author credits Rawhead as an original publisher of the Work.
Note: Rawhead accepts reprints. If your submission was previously published, please ensure you currently hold the rights and include prior publication information in your cover letter or submission notes.
No comments:
Post a Comment