Offing Mag Open Call

Offing Mag is open to submissions of up to 5000 words in English for their ‘Insight’ call!

Creative nonfiction (usually personal essay) that centers one’s personal experience against the backdrop of art, literature, and culture. Insight essays generally fuse together two topics that don’t typically belong together, weaving—and investigating—what is perceived versus what is true. Ultimately, these essays explore the ways in which interacting with this aspect of culture or ideology changed you or made a lasting impression. Word limit: 5,000.

Please be familiar with the magazine and our mission before you submit.

For 2024, there will be no submission fees thanks to our generous donors.

In your cover letter, we encourage you to include information that you would like us to know, such as whether, if we choose to publish it, this submission will be your first publication.

If a department is not listed below, that means it is not currently accepting submissions.

Just a few additional things:

• Upon publication, contributors will be paid a $25–$100 fee, depending on department and number/length of works published.
• All pieces should be original, and previously unpublished in any format in English.
• We acquire first serial rights worldwide in English and non-exclusive anthology rights.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted; please be sure to withdraw your piece promptly if it’s accepted elsewhere.
• Please don’t send more than one submission per department; wait until your work is accepted or declined before submitting again.
• Please direct all inquiries and comments to info@theoffingmag.com.
• Our Fiction department is happy to consider excerpts from novels and short story collections, especially from small presses. If you have something you would like considered, email excerpts as a Word .doc to mary@theoffingmag.com. Please note that we currently don’t have a budget to pay for excerpts, but we do want to help bring readers to books that might otherwise get overlooked.
• We’ll do our utmost to respond within six months, but due to the volume of submissions we receive, and the careful & collaborative nature of our review process, that may not always be possible. Thank you for your patience.

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Enquiries about submissions should be directed to Offing Mag. Please always refer to their website for complete details and information. 

Please note, this call is run by Offing Mag not the Commonwealth Foundation.