SAD Mag is pleased to announce our first call for poetry and fiction submissions. We are soliciting pieces of up to 1,000 words related to the theme of high school (we encourage you to interpret our theme creatively and broadly). Successful submissions will be published online alongside an illustration by one of our featured artists.

SAD is particularly interested in publishing the work of queer or emerging writers, especially those based in Vancouver or the Lower Mainland. We are committed to supporting and fostering Vancouver’s creative community and giving voices and opportunities to people who aren’t heard in the mainstream. We tell stories and publish art pieces that are thought-provoking, insightful, sincere, and wonderfully weird.

Work that perpetuates racism, ageism, homophobia, biphobia, acephobia, transphobia, sexism, body-shaming, slut-shaming, ableism, or other forms of oppression will be rejected. We welcome writing that examines and challenges these issues.

Guidelines:

• We only accept submissions via e-mail
• With your submission, include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address
• Note the genre of your submission(s) and an accurate word count
• Please use a standard font and margins and submit your work as a doc or docx file
• In your e-mail, we ask that you include a short bio and links to any social media handles you use so that you can be credited and accessible to readers who love your work
• We cannot accept work that has been previously published elsewhere
• Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if you are submitting a piece elsewhere or if it becomes no longer available
• All submissions will be responded to within one week of the deadline
• Make sure you designate us as an approved sender to prevent our response from going to your spam folder
• If we select your work it may undergo an editing process in collaboration with a SAD editor
• SAD is volunteer run and we are not currently able to compensate our contributors

Deadline: 11:59 PM, September 15th. Please send submissions to: kyla@sadmag.ca. 

Non-fiction writers, we would also like to hear from you! Our print issue contains exclusively non-fiction writing alongside film photography and original art and illustrations. You can read about pitching us for the web or print here: http://www.sadmag.ca/contribute/.