Submissions

Interested in being a Feels contributor? Fantastic!

We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 27: Belonging.

When we have the space to truly be ourselves so much can change. How does it feel to find our people? To thrive in community, exactly as we are? To feel connected to something much larger than us? How do we create space when it doesn’t yet exist? And when we don’t feel we belong, what does it mean to stand in otherness, unapologetically? At the intersections of safety, acceptance, and love, we find something magic, something worth holding onto: belonging.

Issue 27: Belonging also marks FEELS ’ 10 year anniversary! We selected this theme to mark the occasion to celebrate the wonderful community that has been created around us over the last decade: the readers, the contributors, the performers, and the supporters. To quote Heartstopper’s Tao Xu, “The love that connects us will never break. We built it. And it built us." We love you!

Deadline: September 15, 2026
Issue released: January 2027 (with a big party!)

Please read the information below before you submit. Please send all submissions to submittofeels@gmail.com with a short bio and description of your work. Each accepted submission will receive a $25 honorarium and a free copy of the issue.

We accept:

Writing: poetry, personal essays, fictional stories, interview proposals.

Visual Art: photography, illustration, art, collage, comics, typography.

Have an idea for a submission not listed above? Send us an email with your proposal, we’re eager to read it.

Before submitting, please read our COMMUNITY GUIDELINES.

We welcome (and encourage) people of all diverse experiences, abilities and communities to submit their work. Your voice is important, and we would like to support it. The more voices we hear, the more we can learn from one another.

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Submission Guidelines

  1. Please title your email submissions using the following: "FEELS Submission - Issue ___ - [Your name as it should appear in the issue if accepted] - Title of Submission"

  2. If submitting a collection of works, please submit all in one email with the name of the collection as the title. If submitting multiple separate works for the same issue, please submit each individually.

  3. Art submissions: please include a short artist statement to support the work you are submitting. FEELS is 6.5" x 9.5" with a 0.125" bleed. Feel free to submit lores proofs. Should your work be accepted, we will need a hires version at 300dpi for print.

  4. Longform written submissions: the maximum word count for submissions is 1200 words. Please submit as a word document or using Google Docs, no PDFs. Please note: due to team capacity, we cannot accept manuscripts or written works over the word limit for excerpt selection 
  5. Poetry/prose: please keep submissions to 2 poems or less, unless they are part of a single collection of work (max 4 poems). Please submit as a word document or using Google Docs, no PDFs.

  6. Please include a short bio, a statement about your submission, and the country you are submitting from. We publish a majority Canadian content as a Canadian publication, but do include global contributors as well. As we prioritize stories and art based on lived experience, please also include a statement of your personal connection to the issue topic.


Please send all submissions to submittofeels@gmail.com. If you do not receive a reply to your email confirming it has reached us, please follow up with our main email, hellofeelszine@gmail.com.

We accept previously published work, as long as it will not be published in another Canadian independent magazine during the chosen issue's publication period (January-July or July-January). We don't want to step on anyone's toes by printing the same material at the same time. We can include attribution if the publication requires it.

We kindly request submissions are limited to one or two works due to the high volume of submissions we receive, and please have patience with us in responding to new emails--we promise to reply to each and every one.