Submissions
Interested in being a Feels contributor? Fantastic!
We are currently accepting submissions for Issue 23: Disability and Issue 24: Pride
deadlines:
- Disability: September 15 2024, released January 2025
- Pride: January 31 2025, released June 2025
Disability mission statement:
Our minds, bodies, and spirits are remarkable, diverse, and complex. The journeys we each take within ourselves are so personal, yet are always crossing paths with one another. What does it mean to have a disability? To be sick? How does ableism impact our experiences? How do we build community? How does all of this intersect and evolve? Touch the transcendental? In Issue 23, we explore feelings and experiences from a disability lens, featuring guest collaborator Therese Estacion.
Please send all submissions to submittofeels@gmail.com with a short bio and description of your work.
We accept:
Writing: poetry, personal essays, fictional stories, interview proposals.
Visual Art: photography, illustration, art, 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.
3. If submitting multiple separate works for the same issue, please submit each individually.
4. Art submissions: FEELS is 7.5" x 9.5" with a 0.125" bleed. Please be advised that we will recolour or ask you to recolour your artwork as we print in specific risograph ink colours.
5. Longform written submissions: the maximum word count for submissions is 1200 words. Please submit as a word document or using Google Docs.
6. A short bio about yourself and description of your work, including the country you are submitting from, as we publish a majority Canadian content as a Canadian publication, but do include global contributors as well.
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 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.
Please note: Feels is a labour of love, community-based project that does not turn a profit, so we are only able to offer a very limited monetary compensation at this time. All our writers and artists volunteer their time and work to us and we understand that sometimes that model doesn't work for everyone. We believe in fair and equal work for all and are hoping to rectify this in the future if we are able to receive grant funding.