Annual print edition submissions are open until January 5, 2025 – details about our upcoming issue and how to submit are found here. We are excited to receive your submissions!

SAGE Magazine seeks any combination of provocative, critical, beautiful, captivating work from emerging and established environmental writers and artists. We welcome pieces ranging from playful to pensive. Our throughline is to strengthen and explore the relationship between humanity and the environment.

We welcome unsolicited submissions on a rolling basis for publication online.

SAGE welcomes environment-related pieces, including personal essays, narrative journalism, poems, short stories, photo essays​, and visual art. There are no word count requirements. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please withdraw your submission if it is accepted elsewhere. Note that SAGE is not able to pay authors for their submissions.

Digital Submission Guidelines

  • Please email your submission as an attachment to sagemagazine@gmail.com with the subject “SAGE submission” and the month and year. Ex) “SAGE submission July 2024”
  • Please include your name and submission title in the body of the email. Please do not include biographical information in your submission email.

Genre-Specific Guidelines

  • Poetry: You may submit up to five poems for consideration. Please submit one poem per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files.
  • Prose: You may submit up to two pieces for consideration. Please submit one piece per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files. Maximum 3,000 words.
  • Visual Art and Photography: Visual art and photographs should be sent as a .png, .raw or high-quality .jpeg file with at least 300 dpi.

Thank you for sharing your work with SAGE Magazine. We’re a student-run publication, so response times vary depending on the time of year. Know that we are committed to reviewing your submission in a timely manner. You are welcome to email us at any time for updates on the status of your submission.  

Reach out to sagemagazine@gmail.com with any questions.