We Want It All

We want to read your fiction and poetry, and we want to see your photography and art.

For fiction and poetry paste one short story or one poem into the text of an email, or attach your work in a Word document, rtf, or txt. Limit your short story to 3500 words or less.

We will look at submissions that you are sending to other publishers simultaneously but please tell us that this is what you're doing and let us know if your story or poem is accepted for publication by someone else.

For photography and art (including comics, graphic novel excerpts, and cartoons) send us a jpg file no bigger than 500kb. We are looking for black and white and colour photos, and art that challenges boundaries, that’s stunning, brilliant, beautiful, and juxtaposes parallels overlooked by the average eye, yes even that.

Write a cover letter telling us a little about your life, your writing or art, and where we can see some of your other work online.

Make sure your email subject header contains the word "submission" with the title of your work and your name. Submissions without this run the risk of being deleted as spam.

After sending us your submission wait until we respond before submitting again. We will respond as quickly as possible, between one and four months. We don’t comment or make suggestions.

We may modify these guidelines from time to time so check us out each time you submit.

Small print

All submissions must be your own work and previously unpublished.

34thParallel does not charge reading fees for submissions. At the moment, payment to contributors is made with a complimentary copy of the magazine in PDF format and print copies at cost price.

The magazine is copyright but the rights to all contributions remain with the owners.

Our guidelines in brief

Genres: Fiction & poetry, photography & art.


Fiction—1500 to 3500 words, online max 1500 words, 1 story at a time.
Poetry—1 poem at a time.
Photography & art—500k file (in email attachment), 1 image at a time.
Wait for our response before submitting again.


Special Note:
We often feature different work from a contributor online and in print at the same time.We may ask you to send us something else for this.

Simultaneous Submissions: OK
Let us know if you are submitting simultaneously to other publishers and notify us if your work is accepted for publication by someone else.

Submissions by email only, click here
(submissionsat34thparalleldotnet)