Submissions

At the Stygian Lepus Magazine, we are passionate about sharing the unique voices and stories of our contributors. As a boutique publisher, we are a small team working hard to bring these projects to life.

We are proud to provide a complimentary digital copy of the published magazine to all our contributors. Additionally, we now offer a small token payment of $5 USD for each accepted submission.

As a growing press, we rely heavily on sales to fund our operations and improve what we can offer contributors in the future. While we are unable to provide discounted print copies at this time due to the additional manual workload, we deeply value every story we publish and the trust our authors place in us to bring their work to readers.

Thank you for being part of our journey. Your creativity and collaboration mean everything to us, and we look forward to building something meaningful together.

We are looking for: 

**note: our bunny leans to the dark side, so please remember this when submitting. 

• Stories: Any genre
  • Dark fiction
• Creative non-fiction
• Poems: Any genre
• Articles: Must be writing related. Share your experiences: advice for new authors, what worked for you in marketing, book reviews.
• Art: Any genre, must be high resolution, 300 dpi, in order to be considered

We have a maximum wordcount threshold of 5,000 words.

If accepted, your submission will be published online, and also in the digital/print magazine.

Send submissions to submissions@stygianlepus.com

Submissions are open year-round.

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is now published quarterly. We accept submissions at all times; however, for each issue, submissions are cut off for consideration on the 25th of the month preceding publication.

Submissions received after that date will be considered for the following issue.

Successful contributors will be notified of acceptance once editorial decisions are finalised - usually within 4 weeks.

In your submission, please include the following (we have a tight publishing window and will not read any submissions we have to chase for additional information):

1. One email per submission.
2. Attach your submission – we don’t follow links.
3. Your pen name.
4. An author photo/logo (must be 300dpi).
5. A short bio (of no more than 100 words and one link).
6. Your story / poem / article  in Word format, or your artwork in .jpg format,  as an attachment. All written submissions must be final editions. However, the editors reserve the right to make adjustments for print editions, where necessary.

All copyrights remain with the author / poet / artist, and reprints are allowed, however please ensure we have exclusivity for 3 months from publication date.

No simultaneous submissions, please, they will be disqualified. Simultaneous means submitting the same piece of work to two publishers at the same time. 

Please use American English spelling.

We don’t include “First Published” acknowledgements.

We don’t include links to retailers or other publishers.

We generally follow Chicago Manual of Style which means your name will be shown with periods between initials. 

Submission implies consent to be added to our Newsletter so we can gain your approval for drafts, and let you know when the Edition is live. You can unsubscribe at any time. However, if you mark an email as spam, the newsletter software will prevent us from sending requests for your approval,  and so we will no longer be able to accept submissions from you.

Thank you