Our literary magazine publishes themed quarterly issues, with submissions opening during specific calls. In addition to our regular issues, we showcase a Featured Writing piece that highlights exceptional work.
Each week, our Editor’s Pick shines a spotlight on a captivating piece, offering readers fresh and engaging perspectives.
We want short stories, poems, non-fiction pieces, art and photographs from writers and artists across the globe. All genres are welcome, but literary pieces and art must be in English (translations welcome). Works must be original and previously unpublished.
Non-fiction submissions can be essays, reviews, or culture critique pieces.
The world feels, once again, at an inflection point, between what was and what insists on becoming. Everywhere we look, there are endings and beginnings: the hesitant promise of repair, the earth remaking itself under our uncertain stewardship.
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Issue 2
Submission opens November 1 – December 31, 2025.
Rebirth insists on a refusal to cave into non-existence. It is the courage to return to the page, to the canvas, to the self—altered but still reaching for light. It is the work of reimagining what it means to begin again in a time that demands surrender.
For our second issue, Obindo invites artists and writers to reflect on this moment of transformation. We are drawn to stories, essays, poems, and illustrations that speak to cycles of decay and restoration, endings and emergence, the fragile beauty of becoming anew.
We welcome:
– Fiction
– Non-fiction
– Poetry
– Visual art and illustrations
If the world is being remade, we too must create. And in creating, we begin again. Let this be your invitation to begin again: in words, in colour, in spirit.
We do not currently accept drama or film scripts.
Submission guidelines:
- All submissions for the Second Issue should be submitted to submissions@obindomag.com. The email subject line should read Rebirth_Genre_Lastname (e.g., Rebirth_Fiction_Achebe).
- Obindomagazine does not accept multiple submissions. Please submit to one genre only.
- For fiction and nonfiction, up to 5000 words of prose.
- For poetry, submit up to 3 poems in a single document.
- For Art, submit up to 5 images.
- For prose and poetry, Obindomagazine does not publish previously published works, whether on the web or in print. However, translations into English will be considered.
- We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us as soon as your work is accepted elsewhere so that we can withdraw it from consideration.
Obindomagazine does not accept AI-generated work.
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General Guidelines:
At Obindomag, we invite submissions from new, emerging, and established writers. Please include the genre and your name in the subject line of your email. In the body of your email, provide a brief biography, no longer than 100 words. This bio should include your publication history.
Fiction and Non-Fiction Submissions should be sent to submissions@obindomag.com
- Short stories should not be more than 5000, preferably 3500 words.
- Creative non-fiction and essays should be no more than 3,500 words.
Poems should be sent to submissions@obindomag.com.
- Not more than 3 poems
- All poems should be contained in one document
Visual Art Submissions should be sent to submissions@obindomag.com
- Include “ART” in the email subject
- Send up to three images with titles as the file name
- Submit images as .jpg files
- We are looking for photographs, drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, and more. If you’re unsure, send it anyway. At this time, we cannot accept videos or other types of moving images
- We can only accept high-quality images
We allow simultaneous submissions; however, please inform us if your submission has been accepted elsewhere.
Work generated by AI will be automatically disqualified.
For any inquiries, please send an email to editor@obindomag.com.
General Submission
All pieces must be submitted by email to submissions@obindomag.com as a single attachment in one
of the following file formats: .doc, .docx.
Formatting Guidelines:
● Font: Times New Roman
● Font Size: 12pt, double spaced
Include the following in the body of your e-mail:
● Name
● A brief publication history (if available)
● A bio of no more than 100 words
● A profile photo.
Fiction and Non-Fiction Submissions
● Short stories should be no more than 3,500 words.
● Creative non-fiction and essays should be no more than 2,500 words.
● Reviews should not not exceed 2,000 words.
● Graphic fiction and visual art should be sent in as a .jpg file.
Poetry Submissions
● Not more than 3 poems
● All poems should be contained in one document
Only submissions that follow the criteria above will be accepted and we can only communicate with writers whose work we’ve accepted at the moment.