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SUBMISSIONS TO SGP MINI: MELT OPENS JAN 28th!

MELT:This February we want you to make us melt! We here at Silly Goose Press love Love, so we want to celebrate that with all of our amazing readers and contributors. This first mini issue of 2026 will be a flash-and art/photography-focused issue, so gather up your silly love stories, art pieces, and photographs, that you think will make us melt and send them our way!

As always, we love stories that are well-written and a little wacky, wild, and wonderful. Tell us about the time your partner fell in a pond and it was only when you were pulling them out that you realized you wanted to marry them. Relay the exact way your grandmother tucked you in and scratched your back as a child. Write the ways you and your long-distance best friend keep each other laughing even though you’re miles apart. Whatever your love looks like, we want to see it!

Submissions open: Jan 28 - Feb 9 FLASH and ART only! 

• PROSE: Submit Flash + Micro Fiction and CNF, up to 500 words (we’re a little loose-y goose-y on word count, so if you have something really fabulous that’s a bit over the word count, you can send it our way!)
• ART: Submit up to 3 Art/Photography works 

Prose Vibes! 

• Well-Written, Wacky, Wild, and Wonderful  
• Romantic love, Queer love, platonic love, familial love, puppy love, all kinds of love are welcome and celebrated here at Goose HQ!  
• Summer lovin’ had me a bla-a-ast ~ but o-oh those summer nights
• We want it sweet, sappy, and absolutely oozing with adoration and fondness — don’t be afraid to get too corny (didja know that Geese love corn??), and don’t be afraid to give us a metaphor or ten! 

Art Vibes!

• Warm and cozy places where you would want to be with a loved one
• All the colors of love <3 
• Late night cafes and lamp-lit streets
• Something special that reminds you of someone who makes life magical

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!

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.