How to Submit:
Submissions are currently CLOSED
We won’t crucify you for it, but please read and adhere to the submission guidelines before submitting— it just makes everybody’s life a little easier!
What we are looking for
During our open reading periods, we take poetry, flash fiction and nonfiction, hybrid works, art, and anything else you have to offer. We aren’t fibbing about wanting your experimental stuff. If you aren’t sure what label your work fits under, just try your best, and we promise to do our best to label it for you.
Ethics: We encourage work from all underrepresented groups, including but not limited LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, low-income, and geographically diverse peoples. It should also come as no surprise that we will not publish or tolerate anything bigoted, hateful, or that promotes or glorifies suicide, drug use, or execessive violence. If your work contains references or implications of distressing topics, such as suicide, self-harm, or assault, please include a warning at the beginning of your submission. When in doubt, include a content warning— it’s never hurt anyone!
AI: Screw AI. We will not accept AI generated work.
General guidelines
- No hard formatting guidelines, though, for convenience, we recommend .doc/.docx or .pdf for written work. For art and photography we recommend .pdf or .jpeg submissions.
- Please remove your name and personal information from your document/attachment. We like to review like the three blind mice.
- Simultaneous submission to multiple publications is accepted and encouraged, but please reply to the email of your submission with Middle Mouse to let us know if it has been accepted elsewhere.
- At this time, we do not accept previously published work (by an active publisher). Work published by you on your own social media and personal blogs are welcomed.
- We ask that you submit to only one category per submission period.
Genre Guidelines
We hate limiting creativity, but please adhere to these guidelines, as we want to have space for as many pieces as possible!
Poetry – Submit up to three poems and no more than six pages total, please.
Prose – Submit up to three flash pieces or one long piece, no more than six pages total double-spaced, please.
Visual art – Submit up to three pieces of visual art in any medium or style. We ask that you also include titles for each piece.
When it doubt – No minimum, maximum of six pages.
How to submit
1. You may submit your work to us via our email:
middlemousepress@gmail.com.
2. We ask that you use the following format for your subject line:
[Genre] Your name – “Work Title”
ex: [Visualart] Jane Smith – “Sunset”
3. We recommend that you include a brief cover letter and a short, third person bio in the body of your email. ( we won’t reject you though if you don’t).
Rights
If your work is accepted for publication, we ask only for the right to publish it for the first time. All rights revert to the author immediately after publication. If your work appears elsewhere later, please acknowledge Middle Mouse Press as the first place of publication.
Revisions
If you are aware of intentional grammatical and formatting “errors” and want to ensure no changes are made to your piece, please let us know when you submit. We aren’t prescriptivists here, so if there’s any particular way you like your grammar, we are flexible. However, we want your voice to be heard as loud and clear as possible, so we will make minor edits, upon your approval.
Please note that if you are contacted regarding editorial permissions and we do not receive a timely response, we will take the liberty of editing your piece as we see fit in order to meet our deadlines.
Fee and Payments
Submissions are free! However, Middle Mouse Press is a volunteer run organization, so we cannot offer financial compensation for your contributions at this time. Of course, we look forward to a time in the future that we are able to do so! In the meantime, we do our best to promote all of our contributors on our social media and will provide all contributors with a free, .pdf version of the issue.
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