We Want It All

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

THIS IS IMPORTANT: In the SUBJECT HEADING of your email type in STORY SUBMISSION or POETRY SUBMISSION or IMAGE SUBMISSION. Give us two words!! We are discarding as spam emails that do not have one of these subject headings.

For stories and poetry

paste ONE STORY OR ONE POEM into the text of an email, and/or attach your work in Microsoft Word (.doc), rich text format (.rtf), or plain text (.txt). If your attachment is in some other kind of file format we will discard it. If you send us more than one submission at a time we will discard them. Limit your stories 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 submission is accepted for publication by someone else.

For photography and art

(including comics, graphic novel excerpts, and cartoons) send us ONE IMAGE of your work. 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!! We don't look at links to website galleries, attach an image you think will wow us. It should be a jpg file at maximum quality with a long dimension of at least 1000 pixels and no more than 3000 pixels and a file size of no more than 4mb.

Write a cover letter

We want to know who you are. Write a few lines telling us about your writing or art, and your life.

And then what?

You will get an email from us confirming that we received your submission.

Send us only ONE SUBMISSION at a time. Wait until we accept or reject before you send us anything else. We will respond in up to six months. Yeah, six months seems like a long time, but hey, we accept simultaneous submissions!!

We'll be sending you either an acceptance or (brace yourself) a non-personalised standard short rejection notice. The rejection will be the same whether you missed out by a breath or sent us trash. We don’t comment or make suggestions.

Our rejection is based not only on the merit of your submission but also for any number of reasons to do with our magazine content requirements. We wish you well in placing your submission with another publisher. Why not try us again with a different submission?

When we accept and offer to publish your work we will send you a publishing agreement, and we will ask you for biographical notes for publication (including your website and/or your email address if you want these published) and three or four good quality candid casual photos of yourself that we can choose from for publication.

We may modify these guidelines from time to time so check them 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.

Payment to contributors is made with a free full colour PDF file of the magazine, and black and white print copies at cost price.

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

Our guidelines in brief

Genres: Stories & poetry, photography & art.

Stories & poetry—stories 1500 to 3500 words, 1 story or poem at a time.
Photography & art—1 image at a time.
Wait for our response before submitting again.



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)