We’d love to publish your work! At Critick we’re interested, above all else, in good writing. We don’t care about how much you’ve published before, or in what journals and magazines you’ve been featured. If the writing is strong, and the subject interesting, we want your work.
Critick accepts poetry (no more than 3 poems at a time), fiction (up to 3,000 words; flash is welcome), and essays and reviews of cultural artefacts: film, books, music, art, theatre, and pretty much anything else.
What we’re looking for
We want experimental, provocative works that question our cultural conditions. Whether it’s fiction, poetry or an essay, your work should challenge us as readers to see things differently, to assess things with a new heuristic. We want to read (and publish) works that push us, challenge us, occasionally offend us (one can achieve this without being racist, misogynistic, hateful).
If you’re considering submitting a review, ensure that the cultural artefact you are reviewing is of a similar kind of importance / provocation. We’re interested in reading your well-formed opinions on these transgressive and interesting works of art.
If you’ve got something piercing, something different, and something experimental, we’d love to read it. Submit to critickmag@gmail.com
FAQ’s
Compensation: We are entirely volunteer-run, and at this time unable to pay for accepted work. We hope that, as paid subscribers come in, we’ll be able to change that.
Response times: Critick aims to respond to all submissions within two weeks. Probably, a lot sooner than that.
Simultaneous submissions: are welcome. Just let us know right away if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Previously published work: we only consider unpublished work, which includes anything posted on a blog, Substack or social media.
Rights: you keep full copyright. By submitting, you grant Critick first publication rights. Once your piece is published, all rights revert to you, and you’re welcome to republish it elsewhere with a credit to Critick as the original home. Your piece will stay in our archive unless you ask us to remove it.
How to submit: email your work to critickmag@gmail.com. with “Submission: [Genre], [Title]” in the subject line. Please paste a short bio (3 sentences or fewer) in the body of the email, and attach your piece as a Word doc, or paste it into the email. We may suggest light edits, and nothing will be changed without your approval.
We look forward to reading your work.