Email Word!

Or use the form at the bottom of the page

Guidelines for sending in contributions:

• How to: send your submission to word.webzine@gmail.com. Try to send things in well before the deadline, please! It helps our editorial staff sleep better at nights.

• Ideally, before you send anything in, contact us and talk about what you’re sending, preferably enclosing a writing sample. We’ll let you know if we’re interested and give you guidelines for our articles. We don’t want anyone to put effort into writing something and us not being able to use it.
• If you’d like to write but don’t really know what to write about, we do give out assignments each issue. Contact us well in advance, though.
• If you’d like to contribute but don’t really feel that writing is up your street, you can send in comics, or artwork, or photography. Or work with us in a more editorial capacity, or help us with advertising and publicity.
• POETRY: We only publish 4-5 poems per general issue, but sometimes we have special creative writing and artwork issues with about 8-10 poems.
• Picture files should be .jpeg or.png in format.
• For short fiction that will go into one of our themed issues, pieces should be 2000 words or less. People have shorter attention spans online.

• Lastly, and most importantly, don’t be disappointed if your work isn’t published immediately, or if we sent it back to be redrafted. Part of making this magazine the best it can be is setting the bar high in terms of writing quality, and very few articles make it to publication without some editing.

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Types of  written submissions:

As you may have noticed, Word! is unlike most webzines in that we don’t have a very specific, narrow focus. One of our writers jokingly stated that it’s like “Playboy, just without the porn.”

However, Word! is not a free-for-all. Humor, philosophy, opinion, music, literature and general arts-themed material geared somewhat to a younger crowd are mostly what we publish. As for style, as you can see, we have a wide variety of styles present in the first issue, ranging from serious to quirky, journalistic to poetic.

The best articles have some or all of these attributes:  persuasive, creatively presented, logical, interesting, informative, thought-provoking, genuinely humorous and honest.

Try to find your own writing voice. Try to make the reader think.

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Drop us a line and tell us what you think of us!

We really value your input and want to make this zine the best it can be. It’s you we’re writing for, after all.

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