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General Submissions Guidelines

Please include a short cover letter (200 words or less) as the first page of your submission, with a brief overview of the work you’re submitting and why you are submitting to Mizna

  1. Poets should list out the poems they are submitting, and let us know if there are simultaneous submissions elsewhere. 
  2. Prose submissions should include a brief 1-2 sentence overview of the submission (e.g. a synopsis if it is a story or narrative essay, or an overview of the argument for more expository essays; keep in mind that we are a literary magazine).
  3. Include a brief (50 words or less) author bio. 
  4. Add a maximum of one sentence for any additional information you would like the editorial team to know about the work. 

Please submit as .doc or .docx files preferably, or pdfs for pieces with complex layouts. We do not accept other file formats (e.g. pages). Prose submissions should be double spaced and limited to 5000 words. Please do not send us your term papers or thesis manuscripts for consideration. Poetry submissions should be limited to four poems of any length, verses exceeding our page width will be treated with a run over indent.

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