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Submission Guidelines
Please include a cover letter providing information relevant to your submissions. If applicable, graphic content warnings should be included in the cover letter. In addition to this, you will be asked to share a biography upon acceptance.
Submissions must be submitted online via Submittable. We no longer accept hard copy submissions through our mailing address.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but we must be notified immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Willard & Maple seeks to include a variety of written and visual art, and unabashedly reviews any and all submissions. While the editing team takes time to consider every piece individually, there are a few simple rules to ensure a level playing field for all submitting artists.
With acceptance comes a copy of the printed magazine and the jealous respect of your contemporaries. This year, instead of solely accepting or rejecting, we may offer to connect you to a developmental editor in an attempt to get the piece someplace where we would like to publish.
Poetry
Poetry
Submit 2-5 of your best, previously unpublished poems.
Please submit one poem per submission so we are able to reject and accept poems individually.
Prose
Prose
We would love to read your novel, but in order to give every artist an equal opportunity to fit into our latest issue, we ask that you please try to limit your prose pieces to 2000 words.
Pieces over the limit won’t (necessarily) be thrown out the window, but the further over they go, the more we will consider it.
Fine Art
Fine Art
Submit your best paintings, pictures, macaroni art, and anything else deemed visually alluring.
We are allowing each artist to submit a maximum of three pieces per issue. Series are permitted as a part of your three total submissions. The three piece limit may be changed throughout the year depending on the number of submissions we receive.
Send your images as .PNG, .JPEG, or .PDF files and be aware that we will have to size the images to fit into the magazine if they are accepted.
We usually vote on art as individual pieces, so if your submission is a whole collection, you need to clarify this in your cover letter.
If your art falls into multiple categories, fear not. We are wholly intrigued and fascinated with any form of art.
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