Submission Guidelines:

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Interested in sending some submissions to us are ya? Well, here is how you go about sending us all of your good stuff! On this page we have general guidelines as well as specific guidelines for everything you could ever possibly want to submit. Unfortunately since we at The Cynic are a free magazine and generate next to no money we cannot render payment for any submissions. This may change if The Cynic at any time begins to turn a profit, which we hope to someday do. But hey-it is a publication credit and a chance to share your work with others. So go ahead, what are you waiting for? Check out the guidelines and make a submission. Who knows? Maybe you could be the next big thing!

Guidelines for:

General
Art
Editorials
Farce Haven Tribune
Stories
Poetry
Other (cartoons, anything creative, etc…)

General Submission Guidelines

All work submitted to The Cynic Online Magazine must be the property/work of the submitter. Owner of work retains all rights to work and allows The Cynic Online Magazine the right to publish said works in one to three issues [exceptions to this would be novels with chapters (these would be serialized)].

The Cynic Online Magazine reserves the right to pull works if for any reason they are found to have violated the submission guidelines. We at The Cynic believe in the freedom of expression and will accept any work that we find to be creative and artistic. Exceptions to this are works that contain extreme levels of profanity, pornography, and racist material that does not have an eye towards the teaching of tolerance. If you are unsure whether your work is acceptable or not, send it to us and we will look it over and let you know. Remember you have nothing to lose by submitting your works. Submission is not a guarantee of publication.

We accept up to 5 poems per submissions period, 5 pieces of artwork, 2 short stories, or 3 editorials or Farce-Haven articles. If you would like to submit various types of works (poems, stories and art) please try to limit your submissions to 5 works. Our submission  period starts on the 15th of each month and concludes on the 14th of the following month.
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Art

Art must be tasteful. Nudity is acceptable as long as it is not pornographic or degrading. Art must also meet the general submissions guidelines above. [Back To Top]


Editorials

If there is anything you want to get off your mind or speak out about this is the place to do it. All editorials must be no longer than 3000 words and must follow the general submissions guidelines.
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Farce Haven Tribune

The Farce Haven accepts parody of all sorts. Articles, editorials, horoscopes, stories, poetry, etc… are accepted here. Works may be tasteless as long as they are funny and meet the general submissions guidelines.
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Stories

For stories: All genres are acceptable including but not limited to science fiction, fantasy, feminist, mystery and horror. Short stories should be no more than 5000 words. Longer Stories and novels are acceptable, please submit a 5000 word sample of your work, any chapters will do; once we are interested in your novel, we may ask to read more or may choose to publish it in serialization. Serialization is where portions of a novel are published on a regular basis. An example of this would be the publication of chapter one in June, chapter two in July, etc (this is just an example). All stories must meet also meet the general submissions guidelines.
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Poetry

Poetry must be artistic and no longer than The Odyssey. For funny poetry please see the submission guidelines for the Farce Haven Tribune. Otherwise, all poetry must meet the general submissions guidelines.
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Other

Please see general submissions guidelines.

If you have further question please email our submissions editor at marip@cynicmag.com.

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