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General Guidelines

Send us your submissions by email (biocharmagazine@gmail.com), with “Submission – [LAST NAME, FIRST NAME] – [CATEGORY]” as your email’s subject. For example: Submission – Doe, John – Poetry 

Attach your files as a PDF or docx. 

Make only ONE (1) submission in each category at a given time. 

Simultaneous submissions are allowed; please indicate in the body of your email which submissions are simultaneous, and update us if your work is accepted for publication elsewhere.

Previously published work is allowed. If your piece has been previously published, please include credits to the original publisher in your cover letter and verify that you have full rights to republish.

Work that promotes racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of bigotry and discrimination are not allowed. 

Poetry:

• Send up to 5 poems in a Microsoft Word document or a PDF  

Fiction:

• Please send up to 3 fiction pieces per submission in a single Microsoft Word document or a PDF.  No more than 3,000 words per submission (for the entire document)

Non-fiction: 

• Either:
  • Send 1 nonfiction piece in a single Microsoft Word document or a PDF. No more than 2000 words per submission. 
• Or:
  • Pitch to us an outline of a nonfiction piece. 

Hybrid/uncategorized: 

• Send up to 5 pieces per submission in a single Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
  • No more than 3,000 words per submission (for the entire document)

Visual art:

• Send up to 5 pieces per submission as separate JPEGs, PNGs, or PDFs. 

Visual narrative [e.g. comic strip, infographic, political cartoon] 

• Send up to 3 complete narratives, each narrative as separate JPEGs, PNGs or PDFs. The entire submission should not exceed 10 pages. 

SMOKE

Biochar Magazine believes in highlighting underreported issues or underappreciated topics, the ones uncovered when the smoke clears long after a fire.

 For this category, we specifically want works that:

• Address misinformation, radicalization, or mythology itself 

• Address the ways in which certain issues are affected by misinformation or radicalization 

• Address the formation of myths and conspiracy theories 

• Retell and reinterpret mythology and myths from unsung points of view 

Please adhere to all general guidelines and genre-specific rules. 

Pieces accepted for “smoke” will be published on a rolling basis, separate from the issues.