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✦ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ✦



Before submitting your work, please ensure that your submission fully abides by the following Submission Guidelines, as well as our Standards of Content, which may be found here.

Submissions found in violation of our submissions guidelines and standards of content may be disqualified from consideration.



  1. You may enter up to 2pcs of written work in English or any other language and/or 3pcs of art. If your work is written in a language other than English, please also submit your own English translation of it. If you are entering works across categories, please do so in separate submissions. However, we will publish a maximum of 1pc per writer per issue. Your work(s) will be considered for our upcoming issue only.
    Fiction, creative nonfiction, philosophical essay: maximum 2000 words.

    • Fiction, creative nonfiction, philosophical essay: maximum 2000 words.

    • Poetry: maximum 40 lines.

    • Art: we welcome all genres and mediums of visual art including photography.

    • Translations: we welcome translated works in all written genres. We ask you to confirm that the original work is in the public domain in the United Kingdom OR provide evidence that you have obtained all permissions required from the copyright owner(s) of the original work to produce this translation.

    • Please include a bibliography to acknowledge any academic or non-academic sources that have inspired your work(s). Please embed in-line citations in the case of a philosophical essay. This is excluded from the word count.


  2. We do not consider previously (self-)published work(s), except if your work(s) were published in a magazine that has now ceased to exist. They must not be available to purchase online or offline.

  3. We welcome simultaneous submissions. Please mention this in your cover letter and notify us immediately in the case that your work(s) are accepted elsewhere.

  4. We do not accept work(s) containing content that:

    • Is obscene, offensive, hateful, inflammatory, or gratuitously sexually explicit or violent, or attempt to incite violence.
    • Promotes, incites or assists any illegal activities.
    • Is defamatory towards any individual, group, organisation, or legal entity, violate another person’s privacy rights, or contain any other unlawful content.
    • Infringes any copyright, database right or trademark of any individual, group, organisation, or legal entity. 
    • Misrepresents your identity or falsely suggest any affiliation with any individual, group, organisation, or legal entity.
    • Violates any other of Our Standards of Content.

  5. We do not accept work(s) generated or assisted by Artificial Intelligence.

  6. Your work(s) must be formatted as .doc (or .png for art) and named after the title of the piece(s). Please use a 12 point font, number the pages, and do NOT double-space your work(s).

  7. We ask you to include a cover letter with your submission. Please include a short description of your work, whether it is a simultaneous submission, and a short bio of yourself (this will have no influence on our judgment of your work).

  8. We aim to respond to you within 4 months. If your work is accepted, you will be asked to sign our Publication Agreement before proceeding. We may make minor edits on your work. We currently do not pay contributors or provide contributor copies.








 ✦ FAQ ✦ 




What do you mean by “philosophically-themed”?

We are very open when it comes to defining what ‘philosophy’ means. “Philosophically-themed” simply asks for your work to reflect on the deeper, ultimate questions of life, such as existence, human nature, morality, divinity, beauty, or even the origin of the universe! We want to read works that pose or tackle these questions from non-Western perspectives. In the case of a philosophical essay, your work may explicitly reflect philosophy in the form of a thesis and/or argument. In the case of a work of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or art, your work may implicitly embody philosophy in the form of characters, narratives, symbols, metaphors, dialogues, lived experiences, and so on. The eponymous short story behind our name is a good example of what we are looking for. In any case, rigorous academic understanding of the philosophical concepts is not required.




I want to submit a philosophical essay. How “academic” or “professional” does it have to be?

As we are a literary magazine, not an academic journal, we are not asking for essays of high academic calibre and precision in the style of the analytic tradition. We prefer essays that skew towards the literary, lyrical, and embodied side of philosophy that nonetheless reflect rigour in their understanding of the concepts. In this sense, we are closer to the continental tradition in terms of both form and content.