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SUBMISSIONS TO SGP MINIS ARE NOW OPEN! see specific guidelines for THE LIFE OF A SHOWGOOSE and GOOSE-BUMPS below:

The Life of a ShowGoose:

ARE YOU READY FOR IT?
Dear Reader, SGP is enchanted to announce SGP MINI issue: LIFE OF A SHOWGOOSE. This unedited mini dedicated to gel-pen poetry, long-winded longings, and dancing in your bedroom to glittery music at midnight will feature 13 shimmering poems. We want your late-night lore, vaguely sapphic poems that remind us of crushing on our best friends in high school, and whatever still keeps you believing in fairytales.

Submissions open: October 1 - 13
Poetry Only! 

• Submit up to 3 poems, max of 7 pages.
• This mini will be capped at 13 poems, so submit your very best!
• SGP Minis are unedited — this means that the editors will NOT (you guessed it) edit the poems. All work should be polished and publication ready before submission. 

Vibe Check! 

• Fountain Pen, Quill Pen, and Glitter Gel Pen poems welcome!
• Work directly related to or in conversation with TS lore works — feel free to give us some context in your cover letter.
• Work exploring similar themes to TS discography will make us stay, stay, stay and read your piece again and again!
• While we’re exploring TS in all her many wonderful ways, please also keep in mind SGP’s usual content guidelines, too—review those here!

The Logistics! 

• Use standard formatting — i.e., 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, some sort of serif/sans serif-esque font, etc.
• 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 reserves the right to decide what is appropriate for our audience! 
• 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.

Goose-Bumps:

Goblins? Ghouls? Geese? Oh my! Howl at the moon with us and submit to SGP Mini: GOOSE-BUMPS. This UNEDITED mini issue dedicated to haunts, hilarity, and hair-raising happenings is afraid of haunted houses, but walks through anyways. We want spooky! We want scary! We want silly skeletons! Send us your tricks, your treats, and that ode to Vampiroan that we know you’ve been writing. Let’s read some honkin’ horror!

Submissions open: October 1 - 13
All Genres Welcome! 

• POETRY: Submit up to 3 poems, up to 7 pages
• PROSE: Submit Flash + Micro Fiction and CNF, up to 1k words
• ART: Submit up to 5 art/photography works

The Vibes! 

• Autumnal autofiction 
• Falling in love with the ghost who makes your fan turn on in the middle of the night 
• Haunts! All kinds! Make it a metaphor! Make it so literal we get scared! You know how these things can be
• Remember that time you brushed hands with your middle school crush in the candy bowl? That’s a poem and we’d like to see it!
• Vampires probably

The Logistics! 

• Use standard formatting — i.e., 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, some sort of serif/sans serif-esque font, etc.
• 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 reserves the right to decide what is appropriate for our audience! 
• 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.
  

some general guidelines:

What the flock is craft-forward whimsy? Here’s what we wanna read:

• craft-forward (to us) means writing that is intentional, that showcases your fine-tuned skills and polished word choice. Writing is hard work! Let’s illustrate that talent.
• the magical in the mundane and the mundane in the magical
• fabulism and the fantastical, whimsy and magic
• work that reminds us we love to read (i.e., the work doesn’t need to be “happy” but the editors would like to feel happy to have read it)
• a good sense of humor (we don’t need to laugh out loud, but who doesn’t love a good chortle here and there?)
• fresh takes on folklore and mythos

if your work isn’t this, that’s cool, but we’re probably not a great fi

still not so sure what to submit?

Seems like you need some inspiration — good thing we’ve got plenty for ya! Check out our previously published issues + social media for a vibe check.