Silly Goose Press
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HONK HONK — Welcome to The Pond!
We've got two open submission periods coming up: SGP MINI: Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon + Silly Goose Press Issue Eight! Read on to learn more!
Submissions for SGP MINI: Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon open July 1-15!
The Sturgeon Moon is set to rise on Thursday, August 27, and we want to leave her an offering. We’re looking for your midnight moonlit mythologies, your odes to the Great Lakes goddesses, your meditations and manifestations, your rites and rituals, and your love letters to the never-topped muse, The Moon. Open to all genres (there’s no one way to worship a Sturgeon Moon after all) and for two weeks only.
Guidelines:
- We do not accept any work created fully or in part by AI. SGP reserves the right to refuse work or remove work which uses AI in its creation.
- Use standard formatting (i.e., 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, some sort of serif/sans serif-esque font, etc.)
**please submit only once per genre**
POETRY: Submit up to 3 poems --> Poems should be assembled into one document with one poem per page
FICTION: Submit up to 1200 words --> Feel free to submit a few flash or micro pieces, but please keep the total word count to 1200 or less!
CREATIVE NONFICTION: Submit up to 1200 words --> Feel free to submit a few flash or micro pieces, but please keep the total word count to 1200 or less!
HYBRID: get funky with it but keep it mini! 1200 words max, and up to 5 files
ART + PHOTOGRAPHY: submit up to five images per submission, highest quality as possible
--> please know that for this issue (and upon acceptance), we will ask you to provide an audio recording of your artists statement!
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Submissions for Silly Goose Press Issue Eight open August 1-30!
Guidelines:
- We do not accept any work created fully or in part by AI. SGP reserves the right to refuse work or remove work which uses AI in its creation.
- Use standard formatting (i.e., 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, some sort of serif/sans serif-esque font, etc.)
- Send in only one submission per genre
POETRY: up to 5 poems, a max of 12 pages
FICTION: up to 3k words of prose (Flash is encouraged, and you can send up to 3 pieces!)
CNF: up to 3k words of prose
HYBRID: get funky with it! Up to 2k words max, and up to 5 files
ART + PHOTOGRAPHY: up to 10 pieces + an Artist Statement
- Simultaneous subs are allowed (and encouraged! Get those pubs, goose!), but send us a message or withdraw the piece through Submittable ASAP if you need to pull your submission
- 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.)
- You must be 18+ to submit to Silly Goose Press
- SGP is rated PG-13:
- Art + Photography does not accept sexually explicit images
- Fiction, CNF, and Poetry do not accept erotica
- Violence, gore, and other sensitive themes are considered on a case-by-case basis, but are typically inappropriate for this creative endeavor
- SGP reserves the right to decide what’s appropriate for our audience
some general guidelines:
What the flock is craft-forward whimsy?
- Craft-forward (to us) means writing that is intentional. Showcase your fine-tuned skills and polished word choice. Writing is hard work! Let’s illustrate that talent.
Here’s what we wanna read:
- The magical within the mundane and the mundane within the magical
- Fabulism and the fantastical, whimsy and magic
- Work that reminds us how much 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 fit for it!
*PLEASE NOTE: we like what we honkin’ like! This means that sometimes we want to accept more pieces than we can for our issues. Our work around? We create new issues, new ways to honk about your work! If you are not interested in our silly goosery (ie accepting a poem for the Flight (b)Log instead of Issue Seven), let us know in your cover letter!
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.