Be over the age of 16
Committed to intersectionality (where an individual comes from multiple oppressed groups)
Write or develop a peice of work which accompanies the peice of written work (For more see the Alternative Submissions Process)
The Magazine and Press are looking for stories that are:
Bold (stories which take action, or a perspective, which diverts from the traditional norms).
Brutal (stories which tell uncomfortable truths, surface destructive tendencies, or horror)
Boundary-breaking (stories which do something different, unique or unseen)
Societally engaged (stories which provide a critique on current social issues in an engaged way)
Any suspected AI use will be brought up with the authors and their work, if found to be AI generated, will be rejected. We do not take writing by robots here
If writing a traditional cover letter is not your style, you may appreciate the alternative submission process, where you can design something and provide the same details in a different format. Do note that the longer the work, the more detail will need to be provided (the magazine will need less detail than the Press).
The cover letter should be:
a brief (up to two sentence) presentation of what your work is about, with any relevant trigger warnings stated.
For example: a boy watches his mother’s murder and has a burning desire for revenge. This piece contains allusions to death.