SAGE Magazine seeks provocative and critical work from emerging and established environmental writers and artists.
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.
We are now accepting submissions for our 2024 Print Edition on the theme of “Kinship”. Our editors are excited to review pieces related to entanglements, forms of family, unlikely bonds, culturally significant stories, inter-species relationships, love, hope, mourning, forgiveness, etc.
The deadline for print edition submissions is January 19th, 2024.
Print Submission Guidelines:
- You may submit a total of three pieces for consideration.
- Please email your submission/s as an attachment to sagemagazine@gmail.com with the subject “SAGE 2024 Print Submission”
- Please include your name and submission title in the body of the email. Please do not include biographical information in your submission email.
- Please include your first and last name and “Print 2024” in the file name. Ex) “JohnSmith_Print2024.docx”. If you have multiple submissions, please include a number after your name to enumerate them. Ex) “JohnSmith1_Print2024.docx”.
Print Genre-specific Guidelines:
- Poetry: Please submit one poem per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files.
- Prose: Please submit one piece per document. Documents should be .doc or .docx files.
- 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.
In addition to our annual print edition, we welcome unsolicited submissions on a rolling basis for publication online.
Web 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 2023”
- Please include your name and submission title in the body of the email. Please do not include biographical information in your submission email.
Web 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.
- 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.