Deadline for Volume 9 Print Consideration
Literary Arts – January 5, 2025
Visual Arts – January 5, 2025
Performing Arts – January 5, 2025
Guidelines
We welcome comprehensive use of English and other languages. If your piece contains non-English languages, please include an English translation. Though we are an international magazine, our staff’s common language is English.
We also welcome works previously published elsewhere.
- If a piece you submit has been accepted by another publication, we will credit the other publication.
- If we accept your piece before it has been accepted by another publication, we request that the other publication credits Apricity Magazine upon publication of the piece.
- If a piece you submit is accepted by a publication that claims sole publishing rights, please let us know so that we may remove it from consideration. (Do note, however, that most publications allow re-prints as long as the original publisher is credited.)
Works are considered on a rolling basis. All pieces submitted will be considered for online publication. After the deadline for print publication passes, we will consider all pieces submitted before the deadline that were accepted for online publication for print publication.
Kindly keep author bios to under 50 words.
Please note that Apricity Magazine is not active during the summer (from late May to late August). Any pieces submitted during this time will not be evaluated until the fall.
We will not tolerate any form of plagiarism.
Disclaimer
Submitting to Apricity Magazine is an automatic agreement to our guidelines and our terms of Author’s Rights. We reserve electronic rights and first North American serial rights. We also reserve exclusive rights for a three month period after publication of your piece on our website. We also reserve the right to publish content submitted to us on our social media platforms and both our online and print magazines.
We will hold all admitted online content for 2 years before removing it from our site due to online space capacity, although we will create a public record of published works and authors so that authors may still cite Apricity Magazine.
Performing Arts Submission Guidelines
We accept submissions from the performing arts, including but not limited to original music, short film, short play, and dance. Scores, scripts, and screenplays count although live versions are encouraged. Please upload or include a link (of a Youtube video, a webpage, or a Google Drive file) to your submission as well as a brief description of your piece and how you arranged your performance. The maximum time allotted for videos is 15 minutes each. Simultaneous submissions are permitted.
Before you submit, please note the following:
- NOTIFICATION: You may expect notification of your acceptance or rejection within three months of submitting your piece. As our staff is composed entirely of university students, however, we do not operate from the end of May through the end of August. Any pieces submitted in April and May may not receive a response until August.
- NON-PROFIT: We are a non-profit student organization. We intend to direct all net proceeds towards publication improvement and charitable donations focused on education.
- FEES: There is no submissions fee, nor is there any payment for publishing your work (currently). However, should you be published in the print publication, you will receive a free contributor’s copy. If you are published online and would like to receive a print edition, you will receive a 60% discount.
Literary Arts Submission Guidelines
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction are welcome. There is no word limit for online submissions, HOWEVER if you would like to be considered for print publication, the word limit is 7500 words for prose and 3000 words for poetry. As a champion for expression and voice, we are willing to take almost all subject matters. However, erotica will not be considered. Please do not submit research papers. Editorials are permissible! Note that any works created using AI should not be submitted, nor will it be considered.
Before you submit, please note the following:
- NOTIFICATION: You may expect notification of your acceptance or rejection within three months of submitting your piece. As our staff is composed entirely of university students, however, we do not operate from the end of May through the end of August. Any pieces submitted in April and May may not receive a response until August.
- LIMIT: To ensure our reviews are conducted efficiently, we take a maximum of five poetry submissions at a time. Please only submit one short story, nonfiction piece, drama, or other at a time.
- NON-PROFIT: We are a non-profit student organization. We intend to direct all net proceeds towards publication improvement and charitable donations focused on education.
- FEES: There is no submissions fee, nor is there any payment for publishing your work (currently). However, should you be published in the print publication, you will receive a free contributor’s copy. If you are published online and would like to receive a print edition, you will receive a 60% discount.
Visual Arts Submission Guidelines
We accept all forms of visual art including but not limited to photography, sculpture & ceramics, drawings, paintings, cinemagraphs, and fibre arts. We will need an image of your piece, be it 3-D or 2-D. Note that the artist is solely responsible for all submissions. Please submit files in .jpeg, .tiff, .png, or .gif.
We request that you follow the following naming format for your files: Lastname_TitleofCreation.file (ex. Magazine_Volume3Cover.png).
Artists are also encouraged, but not required, to included a brief statement describing their work, inspiration, process, etc.
Before you submit, please note the following:
- NOTIFICATION: You may expect notification of your acceptance or rejection within three months of submitting your piece. As our staff is composed entirely of university students, however, we do not operate from the end of May through the end of August. Any pieces submitted in April and May may not receive a response until August.
- REVIEWS: In order for us to review multiple submissions, please submit every individual piece in a separate file. For example, if you're submitting three paintings for consideration, you should upload three separate documents. This will allow our review process to flow much more smoothly.
- NON-PROFIT: We are a non-profit student organization. We intend to direct all net proceeds towards publication improvement and charitable donations focused on education.
- FEES: There is no submissions fee, nor is there any payment for publishing your work (currently). However, should you be published in the print publication, you will receive a free contributor’s copy. If you are published online and would like to receive a print edition, you will receive a 60% discount.
- AI ART: AI-generated art refers to any artwork that has been created entirely or significantly by artificial intelligence algorithms or software. This includes but is not limited to, art produced using machine learning models, neural networks, and other automated systems where AI plays a primary role in the creation process. We do not accept AI-generated art.