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Magazine1 (Gold Star Program) Gold Star

Magazine1 hopes to serve as both a showcase of excellent writing from around the world, but also as a literary hub for the Sarasota/St. Pete/Tampa area. We want to showcase work that challenges our ingrained understanding of what writing is as well as who it is that is writing. While we are not an explicitly experimental journal, and are happy to receive submissions that practice traditional forms, we encourage our submitters to give us work they feel they might have a hard time placing elsewhere. This may be because it defies genre expectations in one way or another, or because it may have somewhat challenging subject matter. Our mission is to create a space in which writers can explore the reaches of their imagination, and in that space cultivate a diverse community, both locally in the Sarasota area and the nation over.

National Call - Issue 1

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We are a new magazine, and as a result cannot offer monetary compensation to our contributors. However, since we are operated by a Bookstore, we will give a $40 gift card to anyone we publish, which can be used in our physical store or in our online shop.

If you are local to the Sarasota/St. Pete/Tampa Bay area we encourage you to submit using the Florida West Coast Feature section on our submission page!

Our guidelines for submission are as follows:

  • Please wait until you receive a response for your submission before submitting again. You are free to submit multiple times, but only one submission per genre is allowed i.e. one short story of 4500 words and 3 poems totaling 10 pages of poetry.
  • Please include the genre to which you are submitting in your file name.
  • Only submit previously unpublished work.
  • Include a biography in the appropriate place on Duosuma. 100 words or less, please. While it’s fine to tell us where you’ve been previously published, we’d love it if you told us something about yourself instead.
  • We accept simultaneous submissions, but let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
  • Submit all written work as a .doc, .docx, or .pdf file.
  • Have standard formatting: put your page number somewhere on each page. If the submission is prose, please double-space. Use Times New Roman font, or similar.
  • Please limit prose submissions to ~4500 words for a single short story or up to four pieces of flash fiction each with a maximum of 1000 words.
  • Please submit a maximum of 10 pages of poetry.
  • Hybrid work can bend these limitations, but please do so within reason. We won’t be able to do anything with a full manuscript, even if it’s great.
  • We typically respond to submissions within four weeks. Please be patient as we are a very small team.
  • Submissions are 5 dollars per submission, any and all money collected is only used for the operating costs associated with the magazine.
Specifics for Visual Art
  • Please submit your piece as either a .png or .jpeg file.
  • Please submit your piece with a DPI of 300.
  • Please submit your piece with a size of 1024 x 1024 px.
  • Please list the materials used in the piece.
Author's Rights

For all submissions (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art, and hybrid), we ask for the right to display and archive work in multiple electronic formats, such as on our website and in PDF, as well as in print for special issues. We acquire First Rights to the work (i.e. the piece must not have been previously published in print or online), with all rights reverting back to the author upon publication. After publication, we greatly appreciate any reprints acknowledging that the piece was first published in Magazine1.

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