Submissions

Smalldoggies Magazine Accepts Online Submissions

Please direct all of your submissions to Smalldoggies Magazine using our online Submissions Manager.

Smalldoggies does accept simultaneous submissions, but let us know in advance if your work is being reviewed by another publication, and more importantly, please notify us immediately when your work has been accepted elsewhere. At that point, your work will dropped from consideration for publication with us, as it will have found a nice home already. Congratulations to you will be in order.

Smalldoggies PRESS and Submissions
At this time, Smalldoggies Press is not accepting submissions. In the future, there will be a call for special press projects, which will involve limited run, special edition printed matter, most likely in the form of single or double author books. We will keep you posted, and calls will be made in various places on the site and around the web.

Smalldoggies Magazine Writing Contests
At this time, Smalldoggies Press is not currently running any writing contests for publication on the site. In future, we will host open-call contests for a prize or prizes, including publication to the site. Special Jurors will be managing your submissions, and dates, rules, deadlines, etc. will be announced on the site.

Smalldoggies Submissions: General Guidelines
What You Will Find at Our Submissions Manager

At Smalldoggies Magazine, we intend to cultivate relationships between readers and writers. As such, if you are proposing any kind of non-fiction feature article or column, be prepared to commit to a monthly installment. If you are submitting fiction, flash fiction or a suite of poems, we will do our best to read your work, give it our care and consideration, and respond as quickly as possible. Please keep in mind that we work regular full time jobs, and may take several weeks or months to respond. But we will respond in time, so be patient. If you have not heard back from us in 90 days, please do not hesitate to send us an email, gently reminding us that you have submitted work and have not yet heard back. Thank you kindly for honoring us with your work — we look forward to reading it and learning more about you.

Submitting Creative Writing (Fiction: Long-form, Flash, Poetry)

If your submission is eventually accepted by the magazine, Writers should also be prepared to send
1) A brief (less than 200 words) bio on themselves, including notable accomplishments such as publication, awards, grants, degrees, highlights, books, curated projects or reading series that you moderate and organize;
2) A jpeg picture of themselves to be used if work is accepted for publication;
3) Their location (city, state);
4) A link to their main website, which can be a site, blog, facebook page, etc.

Submitting Poetry Suites to Smalldoggies
1500 word limit…
Authors and poets can submit a suite of poetry for the regularly updated section on the website. This should consist of a set of 4-5 poems, related or not to each other, but all presented as complete, unpublished elsewhere, properly formatted, titled, etc. Please only submit one suite of poems at a time, until you have heard from us one way or the other, regarding publication.

Submitting Fiction (Long Form) to Smalldoggies
2000 word limit…
Authors and fiction writers can submit a single work of short fiction for the regularly updated section on the website. This should consist of a complete, unpublished elsewhere, properly formatted, titled, etc., work of short fiction. We are happy to look at both traditional as well as more aggressive and experimental works that seek to push the bounds of what the form can be. Please only submit one work at a time, until you have heard from us one way or the other, regarding publication.

Submitting Fiction (Flash) to Smalldoggies
500 word limit…
Authors and fiction writers can submit a single work of FLASH short fiction for the regularly updated section on the website. This should consist of a complete, unpublished elsewhere, properly formatted, titled, etc., work of FLASH short fiction. We are happy to look at both traditional as well as more aggressive and experimental works that seek to push the bounds of what the form can be. Please only submit one work at a time, until you have heard from us one way or the other, regarding publication.

Submitting a Column Proposal to Smalldoggies
1500 word limit…
Please do your homework and investigate the regular, monthly columns on the site before pitching a new column to us. If you are interested in pitching a column to Smalldoggies Magazine, here are the terms:
1) Monthly updates are mandatory
2) Submit a 250-400 “About” description that details who you are, what the column will deal with in terms of a subject and point of view, who the intended audience (to the best of your ability) will be, how long it will be, whether or not it will need to be fueled by reader participation, etc., and anything else you feel we should know about it in total.
3) 3-6 Column proposals: this could be a title for each of three monthly installments, three subjects you would focus on over the course of three months, etc. Give us a realistic sense that you have a specific direction in mind, and that you have thought about this more than just, “I’d like to have a monthly column!”
4) A specific column name, which should be less than 5 words in length.

Submitting a Feature Article, Interview or Review Proposal to Smalldoggies
650 word limit…
Please do your homework and investigate the published feature articles on the site before pitching a new one to us. If you are interested in pitching a feature article to Smalldoggies Magazine, here are the terms:
1) Ideally, we’d like to cultivate relationships between writers and readers, so your presence on the site, though it can be limited to just a single piece, would be greatly appreciated. Consider a commitment of a monthly article, on any number of topics
2) Submit a 250-400 “About” description that details who you are, what the feature will deal with in terms of a subject and point of view, who the intended audience (to the best of your ability) will be, how long it will be, whether or not it will need to be fueled by reader participation, etc., and anything else you feel we should know about it in total. If you feel that it would belong in a particular area of the site, such as Interviews, for instance, let us know this now.
3) A specific feature title, which should be less than 10 words in length.

Submitting a Question to Business Casual, With Former CEO Max Wolfmaverick
400 word limit…
This is the appropriate place to ask a question or pose a situation for Business Casual columnist, Former CEO Max Wolfmaverick. Let him know where you are at in terms of your career, give him an idea of your background and your industry, and pose your hypothetical or real question. He will, in due time, respond to all queries in his column at Smalldoggies Magazine.