Submissions

We publish issues on a quarterly basis, in the months of March, June, September, December.

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 – Liang, Grace – Poetry. Attach your submissions in a PDF or a doxc. file.

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.

Please include an Author Bio with your submission, in the body of your email.

We do not accept or publish work that promotes racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of bigotry and discrimination.

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 (incl. visual narrative, e.g. comic strip, infographic, political cartoon)

  • Send up to 5 pieces per submission as separate JPEGs, PNGs, or PDFs. 
    • For visual narratives, 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 display:

  • Misinformation, radicalization, or mythology
  • The ways in which certain issues are affected by misinformation or radicalization 
  • The formation of myths and conspiracy theories
  • Under-represented ideas
  • The ephemeral and the ethereal

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

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