Submissions

Thank you for choosing to contribute to BAUXITE! Before you submit, please take note of the guidelines we've set. It saves us a bit of headache!

Content Information:

Here at BAUXITE, we accept any written work (or adjacent) that will fit onto a few pages of a document. Our editors are prolific poets, but we will earnestly review any genre of literature, so long as it adheres to our guidelines and fits the theme for the current issue.

We do not review reprints or simultaneous submissions. We'd prefer it if it wasn't on social media, but if basically nobody has seen it before, we're still fine publishing it. Don't know? Ask!

We will not, under any circumstances, accept work that promotes hatred or bigotry, nor do we wish to work with authors who promote such. We quite enjoy our good vibes and intend to keep them. 

In addition, we generally don't publish works depicting graphic material such as violence, criminal activity, or anything in that vein. Submissions containing such material will be selectively allowed on a case-by-case basis at the editing team's discretion.  

We will not publish works that feature copyrighted material, though we will review ekphrastic works. 

No AI. No exceptions. This metal crunches; it doesn't clank. We do our best to work through and exclude anything non-human, but for those pieces that escape our omniscience, know that their creators are more soulless than you or I could ever conceive.

All topics that fall outside of what we've stated here are fair game. 

Issue II: HOME - Theme Guidance:

A Home is all-encompassing. It's the origin: the seed you sprouted from when you started becoming truly aware. It's the embrace you return to after strong days, weak days, welcoming you all the same. It's where you stay through the wonderful and the awful, the majestic and the mundane. The Home is cut into many facets, each reflecting memories: sweet, sour, salty. Sometimes, a Home isn't even a house, much less a building. Let us peer through a window into someone's Home.

Submissions for Issue II will close on August 31st at 18:00 CST (UTC-6).

Submission Format:

• Please only submit one (1) work. We accept any creative written work under 4,000 words, including poetry and work that pushes creative boundaries, as well as visual art. We do not want simultaneous submissions or reprints.

• Format the subject of the e-mail as so, without quotations: "BAUXITE Submission - [Title of Work]"; failure to do so may result in it going to our spam and, thus, receiving a late response.

• Write us a cover letter.

  • If this is your first time doing this (congrats! big step), check out this wonderful article by Jane Friedman: https://janefriedman.com/perfect-cover-letter-advice-lit-mag-editor/

  • If your work contains graphic material as outlined above, please provide a content warning in your letter.

• Include a third-person bio to be published alongside your work. 

• Attach your work as a .DOC, .DOCX, .TXT, or .RTF file. Do not paste it into the body of your email, and do NOT send us a .PDF. 

  • If submitting something visual—you know who you are—attach it as a .PNG or other lossless format please-and-thank-you. 

P.S.: We take First North American Serial rights, meaning you can't publish it elsewhere until your accepted work has been published first by us. You'll get the rights back, we promise!
We also reserve the right to post the page(s) your work appears on on social media, including our Instagram page. If you wish to opt out of this, please include it in your cover letter.