Submissions are open until 16th June.
Please take a moment to read through the following guidelines. Thank you.
What and how to submit
- Email all submissions to: ellipsiszinesubs@gmail.com and format the subject line of your email with the type of submission and title of your work. For example: Fiction – Waking Beauty.
- Paste all submissions into the body of an email. Please don’t include any attachments.
- The word count should not exceed 1,000, excluding the title.
- You don’t need a covering letter but if there is relevant information you would like to include, please do.
- Only one piece per submission.
- We may ask for, or suggest minor edits/changes to your piece before publication.
- Simultaneous submissions are fine but please let us know if you are accepted elsewhere as soon as possible.
- All submissions must be currently unpublished online or in print. Pieces previously published on your personal blog or website are okay to submit, as are reprints from lit magazines that have folded or closed. Please highlight this in your submission.
- No racism, sexism, homophobia or religious hatred.
- Include a short bio of approx 50 words with your submission, and up to six links, these can be to your personal website and social accounts.
- Wait one month before re-submitting, whether accepted for publication or not.
- Please don't submit AI-generated content.
- Submit your own work. No plagiarism.
What we like
Take a few moments to read some of the work on this site, to get a flavour of the work we generally publish.
Copyright
By submitting to Ellipsis Zine you are granting us the non-exclusive right to publish your work online at EllipsisZine.com. Copyright will always remain with the author. If your work is subsequently reprinted elsewhere, please acknowledge Ellipsis Zine as the site of first publication.
Declined work
Unfortunately, we are unable to publish all the work that we receive. Submissions can be declined for a variety of reasons but, more often than not, this is due to limited space and personal taste and not the quality of work. We only publish three new pieces of work per week and so we have to pass on a lot more than we can currently accept.
Everything else
We do not generally edit submission before publication, so please check it thoroughly before submitting.
We will publish a royalty free stock image alongside every story. If you have your own image or can point us to an image you’d prefer us to use, please let us know.
Our aim is to reply to anyone who submits work within seven days. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback on stories not accepted for publication. Please feel free to follow up your submission if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks.
If you have any questions not covered here, email or reach out via any of our social channels.