Silly Goose Press

If you choose to pay this $5 fee, your submission will be reviewed and decided upon within two weeks of the day you submit! We use our tips to pay operational costs of the Lit Mag, and keep Silly Goose Press flying high! We greatly appreciate your donation 🪿

Please include the title of your submission and GENRE in the title field of this form.

*NOTE: Selecting this submission option does not guarantee an acceptance, rather the guarantee that your piece will be responded to (acceptance and rejection alike) at a quicker rate. 

For information on specific genre guidelines, please see our homepage, or visit our guidelines page on our website here.

🪿Art + Photography🪿

• art + photography submissions should be addressed to Eric :-D
• please send a selection of up to 10 of your finest photos or pieces of art
• please submit the collection under a singular, overarching title (though we’re open to edits if we only accept certain works)
• please include an Artist Statement about the work (either as a collection, or in parts — you’re the artist!)
• JPG/PNG format in the highest quality possible

What Eric looks for:

• simple and clean scenes
• pastels
• european-summer vibes

disclaimer: we may only accept 1 of your many lovely pieces; if this is not preferable to you, please say so in your cover letter. 

Please Note:

• You can submit work for multiple genres, just be sure to submit them through the proper form on our Submittable page
• Do not submit previously published work (this includes pieces featured on your social media/personal blogs/etc.)
• Simultaneous subs are allowed (and encouraged! Get those pubs, goose!), but send us a message on Submittable ASAP if you need to pull your piece
• You must be 18+ to submit to Silly Goose Press
• SGP is rated PG-13 and does not accept erotica or sexually explicit images. Violence, gore, and other sensitive themes are considered on a case-by-case basis, but typically inappropriate for this creative endeavor. SGP reserves the right to decide what’s appropriate for our audience

Our Hybrid submission is a catch-all for works that don't fit into our standard genres. This can include (but is not limited to) comics, moving images like gifs, and multi-media works. We've been known to get a little honkin' funky here at Silly Goose Press, so send us your weirdest and most-whimsical hybrid pieces!

*please do read our general submission guidelines before submitting to be sure that your content is a good fit for SGP

🪿Poetry Guidelines🪿

• poetry submissions should be addressed to Lexi <3
• send us up to 5 poems, keeping to a max page count of 12
• poems may be formatted to your heart's desire, but know that sometimes websites are VERY SILLY GEESE and we will have to fuss around a bit

Lexi’s Loves:

• sappho/sapphic reads/sapphic words/you get the picture
• glitter-gel-pen poetry
• prose poems OR really good line breaks
• the sonnet
• yearning/wanting/desiring/pining/riiiight, you get me
• fabulism :D
• close reading Taylor Swift lyrics for the lore
• queer-girl friendships
• having a crush that almost kills ya

Please Note:

• You can submit work for multiple genres, just be sure to submit them through the proper form on our Submittable page
• Do not submit previously published work (this includes pieces featured on your social media/personal blogs/etc.)
• Simultaneous subs are allowed (and encouraged! Get those pubs, goose!), but send us a message on Submittable ASAP if you need to pull your piece
• You must be 18+ to submit to Silly Goose Press
• SGP is rated PG-13 and does not accept erotica. Violence, gore, and other sensitive themes are considered on a case-by-case basis, but typically inappropriate for this creative endeavor. SGP reserves the right to decide what’s appropriate for our audience

🪿Creative Non-Fiction Guidelines🪿

• Use standard formatting (i.e., 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, some sort of serif/sans serif-esque font, etc.) 
• Writing should be double spaced
• Send in only one submission per genre, up to 3k words of prose -- but Flash is encouraged!
• fiction submissions should be addressed to Rhiannon
  

Things Parker Dean especially likes:

• lyrical essays, memoir, narrative, research essays, funky-wunky things
• beautiful, long, convoluted, and mixed metaphors
• stories about that one weird night you had in college
• steamy, lustful yearning
• LGBTQIA+ stories <3
• fairytale endings (especially if there is an animal involved)
  

Please Note:

• You can submit work for multiple genres, just be sure to submit them through the proper form on our Submittable page
• Do not submit previously published work (this includes pieces featured on your social media/personal blogs/etc.)
• Simultaneous subs are allowed (and encouraged! Get those pubs, goose!), but send us a message on Submittable ASAP if you need to pull your piece
• You must be 18+ to submit to Silly Goose Press
• SGP is rated PG-13 and does not accept erotica. Violence, gore, and other sensitive themes are considered on a case-by-case basis, but typically inappropriate for this creative endeavor. SGP reserves the right to decide what’s appropriate for our audience

🪿Fiction Guidelines🪿

• Use standard formatting (i.e., 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, some sort of serif/sans serif-esque font, etc.) 
• Writing should be double spaced
• Send in only one submission per genre, up to 3k words of prose -- but Flash is encouraged!
• fiction submissions should be addressed to Rhiannon

Things Rhiannon especially likes:

• wacky and weird stories that make you pause and re-evaluate your life
• anything to do with mythology or fairy tales (the more obscure the better — tell us a story we’ve never heard before!)
• anything kookily haunted
• LGBTQIA+ characters and storylines
• ambiguous endings
• yearning

Please Note:

• You can submit work for multiple genres, just be sure to submit them through the proper form on our Submittable page
• Do not submit previously published work (this includes pieces featured on your social media/personal blogs/etc.)
• Simultaneous subs are allowed (and encouraged! Get those pubs, goose!), but send us a message on Submittable ASAP if you need to pull your piece
• You must be 18+ to submit to Silly Goose Press
• SGP is rated PG-13 and does not accept erotica. Violence, gore, and other sensitive themes are considered on a case-by-case basis, but typically inappropriate for this creative endeavor. SGP reserves the right to decide what’s appropriate for our audience