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Submission Guidelines

Submissions are currently CLOSED, but here are our guidelines as you prepare to submit for future issues. 

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I, the Goose, request your most vibrant honks! I don't quite know what I want. However, I love funny, quirky, serious, gut-wrenching, and anything that will make me read it again! If I remember it in the morning, I want to keep it in my nest! 

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I welcome writing from EVERYONE . All submissions are free and should be sent to dogeeseseegodmag@gmail.com​. Every submitted piece should be previously unpublished and in the correct formatting as outlined below.

 

Your subject line should follow this format: "Genre" by "author (word count)"

  • For example: Fiction by Lucy Goosey (6969 words)

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Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please inform us if/when your work is accepted elsewhere. We would love to celebrate with you!

Response Time

  • The Goose's staff consists of other writers who obsessively refresh their inboxes with impatience. We understand the pain of waiting for a response. However, we also understand that editors need time. 

  • We will email you once to acknowledge your submission (hopefully within one week). Please query if you have not received an email acknowledging your submission after one week. 

  • Our goal is to respond with an acceptance/rejection within two weeks after the submission due date for each issue. Please do not query until two weeks after submissions close.

  • Please wait until you hear from our response to submit to us again.

Unacceptable

  • We WILL NOT accept hateful work. As the Goose, I hate misogyny, bigotry, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, anatidaephobia (fear of geese), and any other "phobias" that marginalize those in the writing community.

  • We will not accept pornographic or graphically violent material. Submitting this will result in automatic rejection with no guarantee of a response.

Genre Guidelines

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