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BRUISER ZINES showcase short, polished works by individual authors or collaborators. Poetry chapbooks, short story or essay collections, experimental forms, comics — anything that will work within the format (see guidelines below). Submissions with strong thematic cohesion will be greatly preferred. Check out our first series to see what we’ve published in the past.
- Each zine will be released in an initial limited edition of 100.
- Zines will be 40 pages or less, with limited color printing (if any).
- Zines will (generally) cost $10.
- Authors will receive ten copies and an even split of all profits from the first two months of each print run.
- Authors are welcome to sell their own zines and can purchase additional copies at cost.
Submission Guidelines
- Length requirements
- Prose: 8000ish words (single piece or sum of multiple pieces)
- Poetry: 20-30 poems (depending on length)
- Anything else: 36 pages or less
- Pitches for in-process or projected projects are welcome, final acceptance contingent upon quality of finished manuscript
- No simultaneous submissions
- Previously published work can be included as part of a collection
- Submit links to downloadable PDF/Google/Word docs with the general submission form:
- Submissions likely to close within the first few months of 2025.
- Rejection notification/feedback provided by request only