2024-2025 Content Submissions

We at The Forge accept all forms of speculative fiction, including fantasy, science fiction, historical fantasy/science fiction, fantasy/science fiction romance, drama, horror, and mystery. We accept pieces of poetry, flash fiction, microfiction, and short stories.

All writing and illustrations must be submitted through this link:

Submission Link

Spring 2025 Deadline: March 10th

 

Submission Guidelines:

We encourage all writers to submit, regardless of their prominence in the literary scene. We are particularly interested in work from students and alumni of George Mason University.

We welcome multiple submissions from each author and/or illustrator, but kindly ask that you limit the number you submit to ensure fairness to all contributors.

We do accept simultaneous submissions; however, if your work is accepted elsewhere while your submission is pending with us, or if it has already been published, please notify us with the relevant details (where and when it will be or has been published).

Please keep content like excessive gore, profanity, and explicit sexual behavior to a minimum. If such content is included, it must serve the story in a thematic/exciting way.

Our written submissions are to be submitted in 12-point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced.

Below are the specifications for each writing style and illustration for submission.

 

Written Submission Guidelines:

  • No fan fiction.
  • No A.I. submissions.
  • Short story submissions must be no longer than 6,000 words.
  • Flash fiction must be no longer than 750 words.
  • Poems must be no longer than 750 words.
  • We ask that writers keep gore, profanity, and explicit sexual behavior to a minimum. Such content should serve the story’s thematic or narrative purpose.

 

Art Submission Guidelines:

  • No fan art.
  • No A.I. submissions.
  • pdf, jpg, or png formats, 300 dpi
  • Images should be clear and high quality. For example, they can be digitally scanned or photographed in a well-lit area.
  • For full-page submissions, they will be on 8.5” x 11” paper/pages. However, these will have limited slots. Most of our submissions will take up a quarter to half of a page.
  • We ask that artists keep gore, profanity, and explicit sexual behavior to a minimum.