Submission Guidelines

Tell us your stories!

We publish annually in the Spring and have submissions open from January 1 to December 31 of each year.

We welcome submissions from undergraduate students from the United States and its territories for a chance to be published! Our team promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion throughout the submission process. We especially encourage minorites to submit their works, as well as first generation students.

Please inform the editorial team right away if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

Waymark is a fully online literary magazine in html format. We publish fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

​We use Submittable for submissions. Reach out to eic.waymark@gmail.com for any pressing concerns or questions. ​

Fiction

  • We are seeking a variety of genres, a few examples being romance, adventure, fantasy, etc.
  • We do not publish erotica or fan fiction.
  • We reject outright works with excessive violence, hate speech, and unnecessary gore. 
  • Word limit: 5,000 words
  • Please submit Word documents in MLA format with a cover letter, and no identifying information. 
  • One story per submission.

Creative Nonfiction 

  • We are seeking coming of age tales, memoirs, travel writing, etc.
  • We do not publish academic essays.
  • We reject outright works with excessive violence, hate speech, and unnecessary gore.
  • Word limit: 5,000 words
  • Please submit a Word document in MLA format with a cover letter, and no identifying information
  • One story per submission.

Poetry 

  • We are seeking new voices in formal and free verse poetry. Send us your spoken word, sonnets, rondels, etc. 
  • We reject outright works with excessive violence, hate speech, and unnecessary gore.
  • Please submit up to 3 poems in a Word document with no identifying information. Please include a cover letter in a separate file.

Visual Art

  • All mediums are welcome; however, AI art is not acceptable.
  • We reject outright works with excessive violence, hate speech, or gore. 
  • Entry limit: no more than 3 photographed or scanned pieces per submission
  • Must include the artist’s name, the title, the medium, the size of the work, and the year created. Can include a short description if needed.

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