Submission Guidelines

All rights reserved. Please be aware that submitting to Snowflake Magazine grants us the full rights to publish your submission on our website or in our magazine, it also gives us permission to use your work in any of our marketing materials, where it may be minimally edited to include our branding or information. All work remains the intellectual property of the creator. We will endeavour to inform you of any use of your work before it goes live or is disseminated, but this may not always be possible, and you can of course revoke this permission at any time with the exception of works already printed. 

 

Please use the submission form at snowflakeculture.com/submit for each submission individually, unsolicited submissions emailed to us directly or outside of submission windows will be immediately deleted. Please do not submit more than 3 pieces of work total per issue, doing so will void all of your entries. Take care and consideration into your choices to submit, as we will only accept withdrawals or replacements where absolutely necessary.

 

Which mediums you choose for your three submissions is up to you, but we will accept only one text submission per creator, with the exception of poems. (For example, you could submit a flash fiction piece and two art pieces, an interview, an art piece and a poem, three art pieces or three poems.)

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Creator Bio

Please also send us a short bio (this is limited to 250 characters or less). This bio may appear on the Snowflake Magazine website if your work is published in the magazine. Feel free to include a link to your creative website, physical or digital shop, or social media.

 

Be aware that each issue has a specific theme, which authors are encouraged to approach from a distinct and personal angle. Please ensure your work is sufficiently linked to this theme, and feel free to explain the link in your creator bio. 

 

Written work accepted by Snowflake Magazine will be minimally edited before being published, we don’t send out a ‘final proof’ for approval before the magazine goes to print as this causes serious delays. We won’t make any major edits to your work, and we generally don’t enter into dialogue regarding these corrections, these edits are to catch typos and grammatical errors that we believe are unintentional. If your work includes intentional errors, please let us know in the creator bio to avoid these being corrected.

 

Snowflake magazine does not expect exclusivity in submissions, and you are welcome to send your work elsewhere after we have published it. We will consider work that has been published previously but prefer original work created for our theme. We ask that you let us know in your creator bio if a piece has been previously published or displayed elsewhere.

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Response

We will endeavour to respond to you within three months of submission, however this is not always possible if we receive a large volume, and you may receive a response much later.

If your work is shortlisted but we run out of space in the magazine, we’ll contact you with the option of publishing it on the Snowflake magazine website, which you are free to accept or decline.

 

If we do decline your work, don’t be disheartened. Submissions may be rejected for a number of reasons and, if this is the case, we encourage you to keep trying in future issues or elsewhere.

 

 

Formatting Your Files

The file name of your submission should be the artist name_submission title, to avoid confusion. Ideally, avoid making your title the same word/phrase as the issue’s theme, as these will likely be deleted to avoid to confusion (and avoid us publishing ten pieces with identical titles!) Please see the category specific area below for preferred file types.