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 Works must be original and previously unpublished.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.
We do not currently accept drama or film scripts.
Themed Submission: Home
Home isn’t just a physical space. It’s the aroma of your favorite dish wafting through the air, the comforting echoes of laughter shared with loved ones, or even the quiet solitude of a place where you feel most yourself. It’s where your memories reside, where your soul rests, and sometimes, where your dreams take flight.
Sometimes, home feels like the clanking of knives in your belly, creating a sense of trepidation that halts your movements, or it can be the one place you desperately need to escape. Perhaps, like Warsan Shire, you find yourself needing to “leave home” because it has become “the mouth of a shark.”
In the debut issue of Obindo Magazine, we encourage writers and artists to explore the concept of “Home”—delving into its complexities, joys, longings, and even its heartbreaks and fears. This theme resonates universally while also carrying a deeply personal significance for each individual. Through poetry, prose, and visual art, we want you to capture the stories of belonging, exile, nostalgia, and hope; stories of terror, heartache, and fury. From the warmth of a family embrace to the ache of displacement, we seek to unravel the threads that weave this powerful concept into the fabric of our lives.
This begs the question, what does Home mean to you? Is it a person? A place? A memory? Or perhaps it’s something you’re still searching for?
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 photosandarts@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.
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.