submissions

read carefully or perish

how to submit

all submissions must be sent to toothcutjournal@gmail.com, along with your name, a short (~50 word) bio, and where in the world you are located.

title your email as follows: “Submission-[Last Name]”

submission guidelines

literary guidelines

fiction and creative non-fiction

  • double-spaced, times new roman, 12 point font.
  • submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words (but we love anything shorter, too).
  • please limit yourself to 2 stories per submission unless you are submitting flash fiction (100-500 words). in which case, you may submit more but still keep the total under 4,000 words please and thanks.

poetry

  • times new roman, 12 point font.
  • 1-5 poems, no more than 10 pages.
visual art guidelines

please only submit up to 10 pieces of visual art at a time!

visual art

  • 6.5″x8″ if you’d like to be considered for our cover. if not, feel free to use whatever dimensions your heart so chooses. we’ll make it fit.
  • 300dpi

comics

  • our pages are 6.5″x8″ and comic spreads can be up to two pages. That being said, feel free to submit less than a full spread, along with single or multiple strips.
  • 300dpi

have something that does not fit neatly into one of these boundaries? contact us and ask.

other things to know:

  • we are primarily looking for emerging artists based in Atlantic Canada. however, we are still accepting submissions from elsewhere.
  • simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please be an upstanding citizen and let us know if someone else snatched up your piece before we could.
  • we only accept one submission per person at a time, which can be made up of any combination of visual and literary art. send us your poetry, prose, visual art, and comics (but we’d love it if you sent it all at once)
  • USE OF AI WILL RESULT IN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!! (just kidding, but we don’t want any of your chatbot garble)
  • toothcut does not have a submission fee! huzzah!
  • that being said, we can’t pay you for your work just yet… but we’re working to change that.