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The BeZine

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This project is believed to be defunct. (August 2024)

About

The BeZine’s mission is to foster proximity and understanding through our shared love of the arts and humanities and all things spirited and to make—however modest—a contribution toward personal healing and deference for the diverse ways people try to make moral, spiritual and intellectual sense of a world in which illness, violence, despair, loneliness and death are as prevalent as compassion, hope, friendship, reason and birth.

The BeZine’s foundations are sacred space (common ground) and social activism, as expressed through the arts. The BeZine focuses on four themes in separate sections of each issue—

  • Growing SustainABILITY
  • Creating Peace
  • Building Social Justice
  • Living Activism and Spirit

and two additonal sections—

  • Best Practices related to our foundations and themes
  • BeATTITUDES — work that fits the mission and values of The BeZine but either is not directly related to a specific focus-theme or is related to more than one of the themes.
  • —from a range of affirming perspectives expressed respectfully primarily through literature—poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction—the arts—music, visual art, videos, photography—and occasional articles, interviews, or reviews.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States
Established in 2014

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication
Published 4 x per year

Collapse section Fiction Believed Defunct

Query first for longer work

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 1,000 words.
Short Story: 1,000 - 2,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Nonfiction Believed Defunct

Query first for longer work

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Review: No specific word count limits known.
Essay: Up to 2,000 words.
Narrative Nonfiction: Up to 2,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Poetry Believed Defunct

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; Up to 3 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Visual Art Believed Defunct

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Artwork: Unknown number of pieces.

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media, including...
Photography.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Image.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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