SteamPunk Magazine

For issue #6, we will be accepting submissions between October 15th and December 15th, 2008

We are always looking for content for our magazine. Two points to keep in mind before submitting: we publish under Creative Commons licensing (see below), and we compensate you no more than we compensate ourselves (which is to say, you will receive no money for your work).

Fiction: We appreciate well-written, grammatically consistent fiction. Certainly, we are suckers for 19th century prose styles, but we do not limit ourselves to this. We are more interested in representing
the underclasses, the exploited, rather than the exploiters.
We have no interest in misogynistic or racist work. We will work with fiction of nearly any length, although works longer than about 5-6 thousand words will be less likely to be accepted and will probably be split up over multiple issues. We have volunteer fiction editors who, if you would like, can provide feedback on your work; other than this, we will only edit lightly and will always check with you before any changes are made. Submissions can be in .rtf or .doc format attached to email. Please don’t name your file steampunk.doc.

Illustration: We print the magazine in black and white, and attempt to keep illustrations as reproducible as possible. Ideally, you will contact us, including a link to your work, and we will add you our list of interested illustrators. Any submissions need to be of high resolution (300dpi or higher), and we are quite fond of the .TIFF format. This said, contact us before sending any file over 500k.

How-tos: We are always looking for people who have mad scientist
skills to share. We are interested in nearly every form of DIY, although engineering, crafts and fashion are particularly dear to us. We can help adapt things to print format, if you need.

Comics: We would love to run more comics. Contact us!

Reviews: We run book, movie, zine, music, etc. reviews. However, due to limited space in the magazine, we will only run reviews of releases that are truly exceptional.

Fashion: Although we are quite interested in steampunk fashion, we are more interested by DIY skill-sharing than exhibition of existing work. If you want to share patterns or tips for clothing, hair or accessories, then please let us know!

Other: Surprise us! We’re nicer people than we sound like.
 
please contact

collective [at] steampunkmagazine.com