Welcome to Menagerie's submission page. If you've made it this far, you've already read what we like and dislike, so we won't repeat it here. The guidelines, however, always bear repeating.
Menagerie Magazine observes the following guidelines:
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please withdraw it.
- Please submit to only one category at a time. A focused submission is better than hitting all categories at once.
- Poetry submissions may include 3-5 poems at once. If one of the poems is accepted elsewhere, notify us, and we’ll continue considering the other poems in your submission.
- Stories and essays should be no more than 5K. We tend to publish in the 1-3K category more frequently, through, given the short attention span we all have on the web.
- We pay $50 per acceptance (e.g. one piece of prose or one to three poems) and acquire first serial rights. We do not republish work that has already appeared elsewhere.
- Please expect a response time of 30-60 days. Feel free to query us if more time has elapsed.
NOTE: We'll be temporarily closing submissions in June to catch up.
You might call this a poem, but you might not. It may or may not be lineated.
It may or may not contain: daggers, people you know, amphetamines, corrugated cardboard, mementos, things of little intrinsic value, lists of no apparent purpose, etc.
You may or may not care. But no matter what, it should be wild, entertaining, and knock us flat.
Please submit 3-5 poems as a single file for consideration.
You might call this a story, but you might not.
It may or may not contain: tourniquets, drinks made in coconut shells, people you want to know but don't, lies of immense importance, self-aggrandizing behavior, characters of the invented variety, lists of no apparent purpose.
You may or may not care. But no matter what, it should be wild, entertaining, and make us stop breathing for short periods of time.
Please submit a single story of no more than 5K words for consideration.
You might call this the truth, but you might not.
It may or may not contain: passive-aggressive statements, borrowed misery for wallowing in, unwarranted optimism in the face of disaster, notes for self-preservation during your next breakdown, various items you've overheard but can't make sense of, lists of no apparent purpose.
You may or may not care. But no matter what, it should be wild, entertaining, and make us feel like we've been entrusted with a secret we're dying to share.
Please submit a single essay of up to 5K words for consideration.