Artifice Magazine

We just got called out, so this might be useful.

If you want to submit to Artifice Magazine, it will be useful to know how to do so!

Visit our submission guidelines here.

Or read them, here. Note that there are two parts: WHAT WE WANT and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES. They are equally important.

WHAT WE WANT

Artifice is looking for previously-unpublished stories, prose works, and poems, pieces that are (as the name implies) aware of their own artifice: pastiche, mash-ups, cut-ups, experiments gone awry, sly metafiction with a heart, and whatever other sorts of text machines you can imagine. We want things that will make us:

a. laugh and clap our hands with joy and surprise

b. sob silently and clap our hands, with a different sort of joy and surprise

We do not believe that postmodernism need or ought be heartless. But neither do we require that every story wear its heart on its sleeve.

Artifice believes, for reasons that we do not want to go into here, that 1 to 12 pages is about the right length for a short story. Artifice is unlikely to accept stories or prose works over 14 pages (unless something strange and fascinating is happening on every single one of those pages). Artifice is, however, slightly more likely than most publications to accept your long poem (though over 8 pages is pushing it). Generally, we like to keep things quick and eclectic. However, we reserve the right to publish anything of any length so long as it fits our aesthetic.

If you’re planning on sending us something over thirty pages, query first.

Payment is two copies of the issue in which your work appears.

(Download our call for submissions.)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. To submit your work, you’ll first need an account.
2. If you already have an account, you can sign in here. Once you have signed in, a link to the Submission Manager will appear on the left, at the top of the sidebar.
   
   
3. Please include a cover letter as the first page of your submission. Your cover letter should include your name, address, telephone, and email address, as well as the title of the piece(s) you are submitting, a short bio, previous publications, etc.
4. Your submission should consist of a single file containing 3-5 poems or flash pieces, or one short story or other prose work. Files must be .doc, .rtf, or .pdf only; other file formats will be deleted unread. We cannot accept .docx files at this time.
5. Files must be named in the following manner: LastName_Genre.doc. Examples: Adcox_Fiction.doc, Silverman_Poetry.pdf.
   
6. Submit one file at a time, please. If you have not yet heard back from us about a previous submission, please do not send us another.
7. Simultaneous submissions are OK - make sure you let us know ASAP if something is accepted elsewhere.